318 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



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

 fleshy, i-1 cm. across ; disc bright yellow ; externally 

 paler, 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 p ; cortical cells irregularly polygonal, 

 large ; asci cylindrical, apex obtuse, 8-spored ; spores ob- 

 liquely 1-seriate, continuous, hyaline, smooth, elliptic-oblong, 

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

 tips clavate. 



Peziza dalmeniensis, Cke., Grev., iii. p. 66, t. 34, fig. 121;:j 

 Mycogr., fig. 153. 



On the ground, often among nettles. 



Type specimen examined. 



Distinguished by the bright yellow disc, and the long, 

 pale, marginal hairs. 



''* Disc white, pallid, or grey. 

 f Growing on the ground. 



Lachnea hemispherica. Gillet, Champ. Frai 

 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 brown, furnished upwards with spreading, rigid, 

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

 point, 8-10 p. 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 p.; paraphyses straight, septate, apex thickened and 

 about 4 p. wide. 



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

 fig. 6. 



