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and sent to him by Sir W. Jardine from Dumfriesstire. 

 These same specimens were figured and described by Cooke, 

 first in Grevillea, iii., fig. 222, where the spores are drawn 

 with the epispore smooth, contents granular. Later on the 

 same specimens are described in Mycographia as having the 

 spores " asperules " and the drawing shows this. Phillips 

 says the spores are " minutely asperate," biit he had never 

 seen a specimen, and copied Cooke's description in Mycogr. 

 (spores rough), quoting at the same time the figure in 

 Grevillea (spores smooth). I find by repeated examinations of 

 Berkeley's specimens that the spores are permanently smooth. 

 Gillet's fungus, called Lachnea livida, Schum., Champ. 

 Prance, p. 73, must be diiFerent to Berkeley's, as the spores 

 are said to be " herisses d'aspeiites"; or is the description 

 copied from Mycographia, and not from nature ? 



Lachnea bulbo-crinita. Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 227. 



Ascophores scattered, sessile, hemispherical, then expanded, 

 fleshy ; externally dusky brown, clothed with long, straight, 

 brown, septate hairs, bulbous at the base ; disc pallid or 

 cinereous ; asci cylindrical ; spores 8, elliptic, smooth, 

 20 X 13 /a; paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza bulbo-crinita, Phil., Scot. Nat., vi. 123. 



On dead branches. Autumn. 



Ascophores 1-| lines broad, at first closed, then concave; 

 margin ciliated with long erect hairs (J a line), intermixed 

 with shorter (300 /i), all having a bulbous basal cell. The 

 disc is slate-colour. Allied to Peziza erinacea, Shwz., but 

 hairs much longer, with a bulbous base, a darker disc, and 

 paraphyses not enlarged at the summits. 



Unknown to me. The above is copied from Phillips, 

 Brit. Disc, p. 227. 



The stout marginal hairs are more or less bulbous at the 

 base in several species other than the present. 



Excluded species. 



Lachnea coerulea, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 230. (= Peziza 

 coerulea, Bolton, t. 188, f. 2.) 



Lachnea erecta, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 226. ( = Peziza erecta. 

 Sow., Eng. Fung., t. 369, figs. 10, 11.) 



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