334 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



hj'drate, the very narrow lumen and the septa become 

 evident. 



Dasyscypha conformis. Saec, SylL, Suppl. ii. 

 n. 4645. 



Scattered, minute, shortly stipitate or sessile, rather 

 cupulate, hecoming plane, clad with short, colourless, obtuse 

 hairs ; disc pale fawn colour ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 spores 8, slenderly lanceolate, 10 X 1 /a; paraphyses slender, 

 acerose, exceeding the asci. 



Lachnella conformis, Cooke,, Grev., xix. p. 107. 



On Jwncus. 



Although resembling L. fipala, the much shorter spores at 

 once distinguish it. 



Unknown to me. The above is Cooke's original description. 

 Unfortunately I have not succeeded in finding the type in 

 Cooke's Herbarium. 



ff Paraphyses cylindrical. 



* Disc white. 



Dasyscypha leuconica. Maf-s. 



Gregarious, sessile but attached by a narrowed base ; 

 hemispherical then expanded, about ^ mm. across, entirely 

 white, very thin and delicate ; excipulum parenchymatous, 

 cells irregular, rather large, externally rather sparsely 

 pilose; hairs most numerous upwards and forming a ciliated 

 margin, 5-7 fi thick at the base, soon contracted and then 

 gradually tapering to a very fine long point, 70-100 fj, long, 

 usually 1-2 septate at the base, smooth; asci clavate or 

 cyKndric-clavate, 8-spored ; spores irregularly biseriate, 

 elliptic-oblong, ends obtuse, smooth, continuous, hyaline, 

 7-9 X 2 /A ; paraphyses filiform, about 2 /j, thick, hyaline. 



Lachnella leuconica, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 267. 



Peziza leuconica, Cke., in Herb. 



On dead wood. 



Type specimen examined. 



The present species is in some respects intermediate 

 between Dasyscypha and Lachnea, inclining tow,ards the 

 latter in the tapering hairs, incrassated at the base, and 



