336 FUNGTJS-FLOEA. 



where they form a delicate fringe, 50-100 X 4-6 /*, wall 

 thin, septate, apex rounded and often tipped with a large 

 octahedral crystal of oxtilate of lime ; the entire hair often 

 rough with very minute particles of lime ; asci cylindric- 

 clavate, 8-spored; spores irregularly biseriate, narrowly 

 fusiform, hyaline, usually minutely 2-guttulate, and finally 

 1-septate, 15-20 x 2*5-3 ix; paraphyses scanty, almost 

 cylindrical, apex rather pointed, a little longer than the 

 asci, 2J fj, thick, hyaline. 



Peziza ciliaris, Schrader, Bot. Journ., ii. p. 63. 



Lachnella ciliaris, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 251. 



Lachnella echinulata, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 2 19. 



Laehnum eiliare, Rehm, Krypt.-Plora, Disc, p. 877, figs. 1-4, 

 p. 866. 



Trichopeziza capitata, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 1719. 



On fallen leaves of oak and sweet chestnut. 



The leading points of the present species are, the quadrate 

 cells near margin of excipulum, cylindrical paraphyses, and 

 thin walled, septate hairs. 



Auerswald in describing his Peziza echinulata quotes 

 Eabenh., Fung. Eur., n. 1009, but an examination of this 

 specimen shows it to be B. ciliaris. 



Dasyscypha ascuna. Mass. 



Scattered, sessile, globose at first, then becoming almost 

 plane, about ^ mm. across, entirely dingy white ; excipulum 

 very delicate, parenchymatous, cells small; externally 

 sparsely pilose, hairs most abundant at the margin, thin- 

 walled, septate, slightly tapering, 50-75 x 5-6 /*; asci 

 clavate, apex narrowed, 8-spored : spores irregularly 2-seriate, 

 cylindric-fusoid or with the apex obtuse and slightly clavate. 

 Hyaline, continuous, smooth, straight, 10-15 x 3-4 /a; 

 paraphyses scanty, filiform. 



Lachnella ascuna, Phil., Grev., xix. p. 73. 



Trichopeziza ascuna, Sacc, Syll., Suppl. x. n. 4542. 



On dead leaves of Carex, 



Specimen from Phillips, in Herb., Kew, examined. 



Dasyscypha aranea. Mass. 

 Gregarious, sessile, hemispherical then expanding some- 

 what, but not becoming plane, about ^ mm. across, altogether 

 white, the hymenium becoming yellowish when dry ; exci- 



