LACHXEA. 313 



I have examined the type specimen figured by Sowerby, 

 now in the Kew Herbarium, and the above description is 

 drawn up entirely from the result of this examination. It 

 will be noticed that the present species has many important 

 features in common with L. hemispherica, as stated by 

 Sowerby, but differs in the orange-coloured disc and smooth 

 spores. Phillips also examined the same specimens, but un- 

 fortunately his work probably considering such specimens 

 as too important and valuable to mutilate was superficial. 



The following is Sowerby's own account of his species. 



" This Peziza resembles P. hispida [= Lachnea hemispherical], 

 and is hairy on the outside, but whiter ; the inside partakes 

 of the redness of P. scutellata" 



Var. lapidaria. 



Disc orange-red; spores elliptical, smooth, 1(5 x 8 p.; in all 

 other respects agreeing with the typical form. 



Peziza lapidaria, Cooke, Grev., vol. xii. p. 43. 



Lachnea lapidaria, Cke., in Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 211. 



Growing between paving stones in an area. 



Dr. Cooke has the following note on this variety in 

 " Grevillea," vol. xii, p. 43 ; " Recently Mr. Cedric Bucknall 

 has submitted to us specimens of a Peziza which, in our 

 opinion, approximates most closely to the species of Sowerby 

 (P. hybridal) of anything we had previously seen. The 

 figures given by Sowerby represent" the species very well, 

 except that the disc is hardly so bright. All circumstances 

 considered, we feel satisfied that it is most probable this is 

 really the missing species." 



The very imperfect description given by Phillips of 

 Sowerby's specimen presumably led Dr. Cooke to the con- 

 clusion that his specimen was not identical with Sowerby's, 

 and he therefore raised his fungus to the rank of a species, 

 calling it P. lapidaria. 



Lachnea rubra. Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 225. 

 Gregarious or sometimes crowded, sessile, ^-| cm. across, 

 subglobose and closed when young, then becoming almost 

 plane, fleshy; disc orange-red, externally paler, and sparingly 

 sprinkled with stout, clear brown, thick-walled, 2-4 septate, . 

 smooth, pointed hairs, which are often more or less bent, 

 125-225 x 10-14 p. ; cortex parenchymatous, cells irregular, 



