LACHNEA. 201 
Suscenus VII—PERISTOMIALIS. 
Subcylindrical, sessile, fleshy, dise plane or slightly 
concave; margin furnished with triangular teeth ; sporidia 
eylindraceo-filiform. (Plate VI. fig. 37.) 
Name—zepi, around, ordua, the mouth ; furnished with 
scales round the mouth, like the peristome of mosses. 
Only one species. 
52. Mollisia peristomialis. (B. and Br.) 
Minute, cylindrical, pallid, mouth furnished with 
long white triangular teeth; hymenium nearly plane; 
asci lanceolate ; sporidia biseriate, fusiform, multi-guttu- 
late, 20—27 x 45yu. (Plate VI. fig. 37.) 
Peziza (Mollisia) peristomialis—B. and Br., “Ann. 
Nat. Hist.,” No. 1169, t. 5, f. 82; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” 
No. 2119. 
On dead bark of holly. 
About 300 to 400u high, by 200 broad. 
Gregarious, at first globose, then elongated, and 
botuliform or subpyriform, truncate at the top, the 
hymenium scarcely depressed ; the triangular teeth re- 
semble those of Peziza inflewa (Bolt.); the sporidia are 
large, and furnished with 5 to 9 nuclei. 
“A most exquisite object under a moderate magnifier, 
resembling some Actinia in miniature. Sporidia ‘001 
inch long” (B. and Br., l. c.). 
Name—See under Subgenus. 
Penzance (J. Ralfs, Esq.). 
Serres IL—VESTIT. 
Genus VIIl.—Lacunea. Fries. 
Cups stipitate or sessile, fleshy, waxy or fibrous; 
clothed externally with more or less well-developed hairs. 
(Plates VI-VIL,, figs. 38-42.) 
Name—Adxvn, down; from the villous or hairy 
clothing. 
