348 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



concave, pallid or whitish, externally pale tawny, tomentose, 

 hairs thin-walled, septate, cylindrical, obtuse, minutely 

 rough, pale clear brown below, tips colourless, minutely 

 rough, 80150 x 5-6 p.; cortex parench\*matous, cells 

 elongated in the direction from base to apex, 6-8 X 3-4 p. ; 

 asci clavate, apex narrowed, 8-spored ; spores hyaline, con- 

 tinuous, narrowly elliptic-fusiform, 2-seriate, 1114x1*81 

 2 /A, often guttulate; paraphyses lanceolate, tips acute, half 

 as long again as the asci and nearly as broad at the widest 

 part. 



Peziza palearum, Desrnaz., Ann. Sci. Nat., 1846. 



Lachnella palearum, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 239. 



Dasyscypha patens, Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 1942. 



On straw of wheat and other grasses. 



Allied to D. controversa, but separated by the longer spores 

 and smaller, narrower cortical cells. 



Rehm Krypt. Flora, Disc., p. 905 calls the present, 

 species Dasyscypha patens, considering it to be Peziza clan- 

 destina (3 patens of Fries, Syst. Myc., ii. p. 64. 



Dasyscypha fuscescens. Eehm, 26 Ber. Naturh. 

 Ver. Augsb., p. Ill, 112. 



Scattered, shortly stipitate, globose and closed at first, 

 then expanding until quite plane, thin, up to 1 mm. broad ; 

 disc whitish or pallid, externally pale brown, villose, mar- 

 ginal hairs best developed, thin-walled, septate, cylindrical, 

 obtuse, dingy brown, tips pale and usually bearing an amor- 

 phous lump of oxalate of lime, 80-150 x 5-6 p.; cortical 

 cells brownish, irregularly polygonal, 6-9 p. diameter ; asci 

 clavate, apex slightly narrowed, 8-spored ; spores hyaline, 

 continuous, 2-seriate, elliptic-fusiform, 6-9 x 2 p. ; para- 

 physes lanceolate, tips acute, about half as long again as the 

 asci, 4-5 p. across at the broadest part. 



Peziza brunneola, Desmaz., Ann. Sci. Nat., 1841, p. 96. 



Lachnella brunneola, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 238. 



Lachnella brunneola, var. fagicola, Phil., Brit. Disc., 

 p. 238. 



Dasyscypha brunneola, Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 1916. 



Peziza fuscescens, Pers., Syn. Fung., p. 654. 



Lachnella fuscescens, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 235. 



Lachnum fuscescens, Kehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc., p. 900. 



