LACHNEA. 319 



On the ground in shady places. 



Specimen in Phillips, Elv. Brit., n. 159 examined. 



Scattered or gregarious, superficial or more or less im- 

 mersed in the soil. The rigid brown hairs arranged in 

 clusters, pale grey disc, and spores very minutely warted at 

 maturity, distinguish the present species from L. hybrida, its 

 nearest ally. 



Lachnea albo-spadicea. Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 228 ; 

 Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 74S. 



Gregarious, sessile, globose at first, then expanding until 

 it becomes plane, rather fleshy, 3-5 mm. across ; disc white 

 or with a tinge of pearly grey, externally brown, and clothed, 

 especially at the margin, with pointed, thick-walled, septate 

 hairs which are of a reddish-brown colour and often swollen 

 near the base and contracted still lower down, 80-120 x 

 8-10 //, ; excipulum truly parenchymatous, cells polygonal, 

 8-12 [x diameter; asci cylindrical, apex rounded, shortly 

 stipitate, 8-spored ; spores obliquely 1-seriato, hyaline, smooth, 

 continuous, broadly elliptical, ends obtuse, often 1-guttulate, 

 20-21 x 9-10 ; paraphyses septate, becoming gradually cla- 

 vate upwards, 4-5 /x thick at the apex. 



Peziza albo-spadicea, Grev., Flor. Edin., p. 420 ; Cke., 

 Mycogr., fig. 141 (marginal hairs not characteristic). 



On the ground in woods. 



Specimen from Greville examined. 



Lachnea sublivida. Sacc. & Speg., Mich., i. p. 443 ; 

 Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 753. 



Gregarious or scattered, sessile, at first closed then ex- 

 panding and becoming quite plane and adpressed, sometimes 

 wavy, substance rather thin, 5-10 mm. diameter; disc grey- 

 ish-white, pallid or with an ochraceous tinge when old, 

 externally densely pilose, marginal hairs slightly thick- 

 walled, septate, tapering and acute, straight, pale ochraceous, 

 often inflated at the base, 150-300 x 8-10 /x, short, obtuse or 

 subclavate hairs are intermixed ; below the margin the hairs 

 pass into hyaline, septate, branched hyphae that fix the 

 fungus to the substratum ; cortical cells mostly hexagonal 

 slightly elongated in the direction from base to margin, 

 10-14 ix long; asci cylindrical, 8-spored; spores 1-seriate, 



