362 FUNGUS-PLOEA. 



wavy, slightly thick-walled, septate hairs, clear brown at 

 the base, becoming almost colourless -upwards, sometimes 

 with crystalline granules at the tip, 80-150 x 4-6 /x ; 

 cortex parenchymatous, cells irregularly polygonal or almost 

 circular, brownish, 6-S yii diameter; asci narrowly clavate, 

 apex slightly narrowed, pedicel stout, 8-spored; spores 

 irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, smootb, at first continuous, 

 then 1-septate, narrowly elliptic-fusoid, straight or curved, 

 12-18 X 3 ;u,; paiaphyses slender, hyaline, cylindrical. 



Peziza papillaris, Bull., Champ., t. 467, f. 1. 



Laclmea papillaris, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 267. 



Lachnella variecolor, Phil., Brit. Disc,, p. 259. 



On rotten wood. 



Specimens in Saoo., Myo. Ven., 1508, examined, also 

 specimens from Montague in Herb. Berk., Kew. 



Whatever the Peziza variecolor of Fries may be, I know 

 not, but it is evident that the plant described by Phillips — ■ 

 Brit. Disc, p. 259 — under this name is identical with 

 L. papillaris of the same work — p. 257 — and it will be 

 observed that Phillips has given the same quotation from 

 Pries under both species. 



Dasyscypha flammea. Mass. 



Gregarious, sessile, subglobose and closed when young, 

 becoming expanded, substance thin, dry, usually impregnated 

 with particles of lime, 2-3 mm. diameter, everywhere bright 

 red, becoming dull red with age; externally and the margin 

 densely clothed with thin-walled, cylindrical, obtuse, straight 

 or more or less wavy, pale reddish-brown hairs, which are 

 usually rough with adhering particles of lime, 80-160 x 

 4-5 /A ; asci clavate, apex obtuse, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 

 2-seriate, hyaline, straight or slightly bent, narrowly ellipti- 

 cal, ends obtuse, sometimes becoming l-septate, 9-14' x 

 3-3 • 5 /x ; paraphyses slender, cylindrical throughout. 



Peziza flammea, Albert. & Schw., Comp. Fung. Agro. 

 Nisk., p. 319, tab. 1, fig. 6. 



Lachnella flammea, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 407 ; Saoc, Syll., 

 viii. n. 1615. 



On dry, decorticated branches of willow, privet, &c. 



Eeadily distinguished by the red colour of every part, and 

 the densely hairy exterior. 



