LACHNEA, 209 
(Payment brown, having long flexuous hairs; 
hymenium livid; cups immersed .. oe .. sepulta, 
3 Externally brown, having long straight hairs ; 
hymenium livid; cups sessile .. sxe .. hemispherica. 
Externally brown, having short rigid hairs; hyme- 
nium watery grey; cups sessile .. ‘ Woolhopeia. 
A. CUPS LARGE, OFTEN IMMERSED. 
4 . . 
(a) Sporidia globose. 
8. Lachnea brunnea. (A. and S.) 
Cups gregarious, subceespitose, sessile, hemispherical, 
then depressed, subflexuose, brown, externally clothed 
with minute, rigid, fasciculate, brown, septate hairs; 
hymenium the same colour ; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, 
globose, asperate, 15—18u; paraphyses slender, septate, 
apices clavate. 
Peziza brunnea—A. and 8. in “Consp.,” p. 317. 
Lachnea brunnea—GilL, “ Champ.,” p. 72. 
On the ground. November. 
Cups 1 to 2 lines broad. 
The above description embraces the characters of 
Albertini and Schweinitz’s species, with the addition of 
noicroscopical characters of a plant referred to it by Mr. 
C. E. Broome, which agrees admirably in external cha- 
racters. No original examples are at present known to 
exist either in American or British herbaria of Albertini 
and Schweinitz’s species; there must always remain a 
doubt, therefore, whether we have the true plant. 
Name—Brunneus, dark brown. 
Near Hereford! (Mr. C. E. Broome). 
(b) Sporidia elliptic. 
9. Lachnea sepulta. (Fries.) 
Cups sessile, subterranean, globose, at first closed, 
then opening by a narrow mouth, at length splitting 
into many unequal laciniz; externally clothed with 
long, flexuose, branched, septate, brown hairs; hymenium 
urceolate, brownish or livid; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 
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