LACHNEA, 205 
the base; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, rather broadly 
elliptic, at first guttulate, smooth, 18—20 x 10u; para- 
physes clavate, with brown apices. 
Peziza corium—Weberb., “ Pilze,” t. ili. £ 7; Cooke, 
“ Mycogr.,” fig. 187; “ Grevillea,” v. p. 59. Aleuria 
corvum, Gill., “ Champ.,” p. 39. 
Exs.—Phil., “Elv. Brit.” No. 153; Rabh., “ Fung. 
Eur.,” 2209; Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” ed. ii. No. 552; Rav., 
“Fung. Am.,” 760. 
On the ground i in sandy soil. Spring. 
Cups } to 14 inches broad; stem 4 to 14 inches long, 
and pout 1 to 3 lines broad at the base, smaller above. 
The flesh is white; the cells which form the velvety 
surface of the exterior are composed of 4 to 8 in a 
chain, constricted at their junction, the chain very rarely 
branched. The brown apices of the paraphyses are often 
composed of nearly moniliform cells. 
Name—Coriwm, leather ; leather-like. 
North Wootton! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
4. Lachnea bulbosa. (Hedw.) 
Cups hemispherical, becoming expanded, waxy, when 
dry subcoriaceous, cinerascent, minutely squamulose ; 
hymenium blackish brown; stem firm, rather slender, 
arising from a tuber-form base ; asci cylindrical : sporidia 
8, broadly elliptic, 1-guttulate, gutta large, smooth, 
15 x 10u; paraphyses clavate at the apices. 
Peziza bulbosa—Nees, “Sys.,” £ 289; Fries, “ Sys. 
Myoo.,” ii. 58; “ Grevillea,” iii. “Oe 8; Cooke, ‘ ‘Mycogr.,” 
fig. 189. Octospora bulbosa—Hedw., “ Mus. Frond.,” t. x. 
f.c. Fungoides fuscum—Buxb., “ Petr.,” iv. t. 29, f. 3; 
Scheff, t. 152, Aleuria bulbosa—Gill, “Champ.,” p. 
37, 6. i. 
Exs.—Rabh., “ Fung. Eur.,” 1308. 
On the ground i in sandy soil. Summer and autumn. 
Cups 4 an inch to 1 inch broad; stem 4 an inch to 1 
inch long, 1 line thick ; flesh pale grey. 
Name—Bulbus, a bulb ; bulbous. 
King’s Lynn! (Mr. C. B. Plowright) 
