318 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



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

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

 jialer, 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, 250-360 X 6-8 ;«, ; 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 ju,; paraphyses septate, hyaline, 

 tips clavate. 



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

 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. France, 

 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 fi thick at the base, and sometimes more or less 

 inclined to be bulbous, length very variable, arranged in 

 email 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 ix.; paraphyses straight, septate, apex thickened and 

 about 4 ijt, wide. 



Peziza hemispherica, Wigg., in Hofi'm., Crypt., ii. t. 7, 

 fig. 6. 



