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(B) Stem rooting. 
5. Lachnea helvelloides. (Fries.) 
Cup-shaped, complanate, then expanded, orbicular, 
becoming reflexed, blackish brown; externally, together 
with the equal stem, squamulose-scabrous ; asc cylin- 
drical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 15—17 x 10u; para- 
physes subclavate. ; 
Peziza helvelloides—Fries, “Summa Veg. Scan.,” 348 ; 
“ Grevillea,” iii. fig. 6; Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” fig. 190. Hel- 
vella pezizoides—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 20; Afz. in 
“Vet. Ac. Handl.,” 1873, t. 10, £. 2; Sace., “Myco. Ven. 
Sp.,” p. 169; Karst., “Myco. Fenn.,” p. 36; Fekl., “Symb. 
iso 333. Alewria helvelloides—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 40. 
Exs.—Rabh., “Fung. Eur.,” ii, 237; Karst., “Fung. 
Fenn.,” 446; Fekl., “F. Bh.,” 1880; Rabh., “Herb. Myco.,” 
ii, 26. 
In pine woods and mossy places. Autumn. 
Cup scarcely 1 inch broad; stem 1 to 2 inches high, 
1 to 2 lines thick. 
Name—Helvella, a genus of fungi, e?Soc, likeness ; 
Helvella-like. 
Northamptonshire (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 
6. Lachnea cocotina. (Cooke.) 
Cups rooting, fleshy, hemispherical, becoming applanate; 
margin entire; hymenium pale orange; externally, to- 
gether with the stem, whitish tomentose ; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, elliptic, hyaline, smooth, 18 x 104; paraphyses 
clavate. 
Peziza cocotina—Cooke in “Grevillea,’ v. p. 61; 
“Mycogr.,” fig. 356. 
On cocoa-nut fibre in a caterpillar-cage, and on saw- 
dust. October. 
Cups 1 inch diameter. In some points resembling 
Peziza radiculata (Sow.), in others Peziza cerea (Sow.), 
but differing from both (Cooke). 
The tomentum consists of short flexuous hairs com- 
posed of 8 to 5 oblong cells, constricted at the joints. 
