210 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
broadly elliptic, 1 to 2 or several gutta, smooth, 22— 
eo a 12; paraphyses stout, septate, apices clavate. (Plate 
. fig. 39. 
Pocien nepali Tia “Nov. Symb. Myco.,” 1851, 
p. 126; B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.” No. 766; Berk., 
“Outl,” p. 865; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2019; “Gre- 
villea,” iii. fig. 212’; Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” fig. 112. . 
Exs.—Phil., “ Elv. Brit.,” 63; Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” 
ed. ii, No. 544, 
On the ground, after autumnal rains. 
Cups 1 to 2 inches broad; globose, clothed with dense 
woolly fibres, the upper portion often breaking off 
irregularly and so exposing the disc (B. and Br.). 
This is very closely allied to Peziza arenaria (Osbeck) 
and P. arenicola (Lév.). It bears also a close resem- 
blance to the genus Hydrocystis—Tul. (B. and Br.). 
Name—Sepultus, buried. 
East Bergholt (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Forden, North 
Wales ! (Rev. J. E. Vize), 
10. Lachnea geaster. (B. and Br.) 
Cups scattered, sessile, subterranean, globose, bursting 
into a few lacinize; externally villose, brown; asci 
cylindrical ; sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, 1-guttate, smooth, 
18—23 x 10—I1]u; paraphyses clavate at the apices. 
Peziza geaster—B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 1866, 
Nos. 956 and 1162, t. 4, f. 26 (nee Gonn. and Rabh., iii. 
t. 3, £5); “Grevillea,” iii. fig. 223; Cooke, “Handbk.,” 
2018 ; “ Mycogr.,” fig. 114. 
Amongst comminuted stone and earth. October. 
Cups about 4 an inch in diameter. The surface is 
not warty, as in P. arenaria (B. and Br.). 
Name—yj, the earth, dorhp, a star; Geaster, a genus 
of fungi, which it somewhat resembles. : 
Wentworth (Mr. J. Henderson), Lynn! (Mr. ©. B. 
Plowright). 
11. Lachnea arenicola, (Lév.) 
Cups sessile, subterranean, subglobose, then cup- 
shaped, waxy, fibrillose, clothed with long, brown, 
