312 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



On the ground in damp and shady places, in woods, &c. 

 Type specimen examined. 



Very close to L. stercorea ; for details of differences -see 

 note under last-named species. 



Lachnea setosa. Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 406; Sacc., 

 Syll., viii. n. 739 ; Mycogr., f. 133. 



Gregarious, sessile; rather flesh, margin incurved and 

 closed when young, then becoming saucer-shaped, 3-6 mm. 

 across; becoming closed up when dry, and the marginal 

 hairs collected into an erect brush-like tuft ; disc orange or 

 orange-red ; pilose externally, marginal hairs very long and 

 stout, strait, tapering to a point, wall very thick, transverse 

 septa delicate, disappearing, often branched at the base, deep 

 bright brown, 300-550 X 15-26 /i; cortex parenchymatous, 

 cells irregularly hexagonal, 15-20 p. diameter; asci cylin- 

 drical, apex obtuse and slightly truncate, 8-spored ; spores 

 obliquely 1-seriate, smooth, hyaline, continuous, elliptical, 

 ends obtuse, sometimes guttulate, 16-20 X 810 /j. ; para- 

 physes septate, slightly clavate, and containing red granules. 



Peziza setosa, Nees, Syst., p. 260, f. 275. 



On rotten wood, trunks, &c. 



Somewhat resembling L. scutellata, but distinguished by the 

 persistently smooth spores, and the very long, stout, marginal 

 hairs, which are collected into a dense erect cluster when the 

 ascophore is dry and contracted. 



Specimens in Phil., Elv., n. 161, and Thum., Fung. Austr., 

 n. 1013, examined. 



Lachnea hybrida. Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 214. 



Gregarious, sessile, globose then more or less expanded, fleshy 

 up to 2 cm. across; excipulum parenchymatous, cells large, 

 irregularly polygonal, externally dingy ochraceous and clad, 

 especially towards the margin with small clusters of stout, 

 tapering, thick- walled, brown, septate hairs; disc concave, 

 dingy orange ; asci cylindrical, rounded at the apex, 8-spored ; 

 spores obliquely uniseriate, hyaline, continuous, often guttu- 

 lato, smooth, 21-25 x 12/x; paraphyses straight, septate, 

 slightly thickened upwards. 



Peziza hybrida, Sowerby, ] 

 lldbk., n. 2020; Cooke, Mycogr., 12( 



On the ground. 



