LAOHNEA. 315 



more or less incurved or erect, rather fleshy ; disc deep 

 carmine or scarlet, externally paler and clothed with thick- 

 walled, smooth, septate, pointed, deep brown hairs, the 

 marginal ones 250-360 X 9-12 fx., sometimes inflated more or 

 less below and the base often branching where it springs 

 from the cortical cell ; cortex parenchymatous, cells irregu- 

 larly polygonal or subquadrate, 12-20 jj. diameter; asci 

 cylindrical, tip somewhat truncate, 8-spored ; spores hyaline, 

 continuous, elliptical, ends obtuse, often 1-2-guttulate, at 

 first smooth, becoming rather coarsely warted at maturity, 

 18-22 X 8-10 /x ; paraphyses septate, tips rather broadly 

 clavate and filled with red granules. 



Peziza Tiirta, Schum., SaeU., p. 422 ; Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 

 128. 



On the ground among moss, &c. Earely on rotten wood, 

 decaying Polyporei, &c. 



Superficially resembling L. scutellata, but separated by the 

 somewhat coarsely warted spores, and the persistently 

 incurved margin of the asoophore. 



Specimens examined in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 1 9, and Eehm, 

 Ascom., n. 505. 



Lachnea scutellata. GiUet, Disc. Prance, p. 75 ; 

 Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 222 ; Sacc, SyU., viii. n. 698. (figs. 

 20, 21, p. 290.) 



Ascophores usually gregarious, sessile, closed and sub- 

 globose at first, then expanded and plane, fixed by a central 

 point, 3-8 mm. across ; disc deep carmine or almost vermilion, 

 externally pale red, furnished near the margin with large, 

 brown, thick-walled, septate, pointed hairs, 300-600 X 

 15 X 20 fi; excipulum parenchymatous, the cells largest at 

 the periphery; asci cylindrical, 8-spored; spores obliquely 

 1-seriate, hyaline, elliptical, ends obtuse, continuous, for a 

 long time smooth, then minutely verruculose, 20-25 x 

 11-14; paraphyses septate, apex clavate and filled when 

 growing with orange granules. 



Peziza scutellata, Linn., Suec, n. 458 ; Cooke, Mycogr., 

 fig. 131. 



On rotten wood stumps, &c. 



Specimen in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 64, examined. 



The very long marginal hairs and the bright red disc dis- 



