318 FUXGUS-FLOEA. 



expanding, sometimes wavy, margin more or less erect, rather 

 fleshy, .\-l cm. across ; disc bright yellow ; externally 

 2)aler, pilose, hairs longest at the margin, where they are 

 straight, tapering to a point, septate, slightly thick-walled, 

 smooth, very pale yellow-brown, or sometimes almost colour- 

 less, 250-350 X 6-8 jx ; cortical cells irregularly polygonal, 

 large; asci cylindrical, apex obtuse, 8-sj:>ored ; spores ob- 

 liquely l'Seriate, continuous, hyaline, smooth, elliptic-oblong, 

 ends obtuse, 12-15 x 7-8 /x; paraphyses septate, hyaline, 

 tips clavate. 



Peziza dalmeniensis, Cke., Grev., iii. p. 6Q, t. 34, fig. 121 ; 

 3Iycogr., fig. 153. 



On the ground, often among nettles. 



Type specimen examined. 



Distinguished by the bright yellow disc, and the long, 

 }3ale, marginal hairs. 



*#* Disc white, pallid, or grey. 

 | Groicing on the ground. 



Lachnea hemispherica. Gillet, Champ. France, 

 Disc, p. 73, with pi.; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 211; Sacc, Syll., 

 viii. n. 668. (figs. 5-9, p. 290). 



Ascophore sessile, globose then hemispherical, at length 

 almost or quite plane, the margin then slightly raised or 

 sometimes turned back, often wavy ; rather fleshy, brittle, 

 excipulum parenchymatous, cells polygonal, large ; exter- 

 nally dingy browu, furnished upwards with spreading, rigid, 

 long, thick-walled, septate, brown hairs, attenuated to a 

 point, 8-10 /ut thick at the base, and sometimes more or less 

 inclined to be bulbous, length very variable, arranged in 

 small clusters ; disc bluish- white ; asci cylindrical, apex 

 rounded, attenuated at the base, 8-spored ; spores obliquely 

 uniseriate, hyaline, continuous, often 2-guttulate, for a long 

 time quite smooth, then very minutely asperate, 17-25 X 

 12-13 n ; paraphyses straight, septate, apex thickened and 

 about 4 fx wide. 



Peziza hemispherica, Wigg., in Hoffm., Crypt., ii. t. 7, 

 fig. 6. 



