LACHNEA. 203 
externally white, villous; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, 
elliptic, asperate, 16 x 104; paraphyses filiform. (Plate 
VI. fig. 38.) | 
Peziza radiculata—Sow., “ Fung,” t. 114; Fries, “Sys. 
Myco.,” ii. 81; Crouan, “Flo, Fin.,” p. 52; “Eng. Flo.,” 
v. p. 192; B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 1160*, t. 4, f 23; 
Cooke, “ Handbk.,” 2015 ; “ Grevillea,” iii. fig. 92; Cooke, 
“Mycogr.,” fig. 99. Peziza Sowerbea—Pers., “ Myco. Eur.,” 
p. 232. Lachnea radiculata—Gill, “Champ.,” p. 66, ¢. i. 
Exs.—Rabh., “ Fung. Eur.,” 618. 
On the ground, in gardens and in fir woods, ete. 
Summer and autumn. 
Cups 1 to 14 inches broad; hairs septate, hyaline, 
rather long (M. C. Cooke). Somewhat reticulated ex- 
ternally, with irregular prominent veins, 1 inch or more 
broad (Berk. in “ Eng. Flo.”). 
Name—Radicula, a little root ; from the rooting base. 
Dropmore, Jedburgh (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Near 
Twycross (Rev. A. Bloxam). North Wootton (Mr. C. B. 
Plowright). Epping (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Stoke Newing- 
ton (Mr. W. G. Sinith). 
Var. Percevalii. Phil. 
Differing in the oblique cups (which resemble the 
species in Otidea) and the clavate paraphyses. 
Name—After Mr. Cecil H. Spencer Perceval. 
Stopham ! (Mr. Cecil H. Spencer Perceval). 
(a) Epispore smooth, 
(a) Stem erect. 
2. Lachnea coccinea. (Jacq). 
Cups stipitate, infundibuliform ; externally, as well as 
the stem, whitish, tomentose, with short adpressed down ; 
dise carmine; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, oblong-ellip- 
tic, smooth, 25—27 x 9u; paraphyses linear. 
Peziza coccinea—Jacq., “ Misc. Austr.,” t. 169; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” ii. 79; Nees, “Sys.,” f. 288; Bolt. “ Fung.,” 
t. 104; Buxb., “ Petr.” iv. t. 29,f.4; Batt, t. 3, £ n, 0; 
