LACHNEA. 211 
flexuous hairs, encrusted with sand; mouth constricted, 
becoming split and dentate; hymenium fuscescent ; asci 
cylindrical; sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, 1-guttulate, 
smooth, 20 x 124; paraphyses clavate at the apices. 
Var. Blowami. (Cooke.) 
Differs from the type in the colour of the disc, which 
is fleshy-ochraceous, and the larger sporidia. 
Peziza Bloxami—Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” fig. 121. 
On sandy ground. — : 
Name—After the Rev. A. Bloxam. 
Near Liverpool (Rev. H. H. Higgins). 
12. Lachnea lapidaria. (Cooke.) 
Hemispherical, then expanded ; externally brown, clad 
with fascicles of xather rigid, straight, pointed, brown, 
septate hairs; hymenium orange-red; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 16 x 8u; paraphyses enlarged 
gradually from the centre upwards. 
Peziza hybrida—Cooke in “ Grevillea,” vol. xii. p. 43. 
Peziza lapidaria—Cooke in litt. 
Growing between paving-stones in an area. 
Cups # of an inch in diameter; hairs 200u long, 
8u. broad. 
Name—Lapidarius, pertaining to stones; growing 
between stones. 
Bristol! (Mr. Cedric Bucknall). 
13. Lachnea hemispherica. (Wigg.) 
Cups scattered, sessile, at first globose, soon hemi- 
spherical, entire, the margin also becoming replicate; ex- 
ternally subfuscous, sparsely covered, especially near the 
margin, with fasciculate brown hairs; hymenium bluish 
white; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, 2-guttulate, 
smooth, 20-24 x 10—13u mm.; paraphyses septate, 
clavate at the apices. 
Peziza hemispherica—Wigg. in Hoffm., “ Crypt.,” ii. 
t. 7, fig. 6; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. 82; “Flo. Dan.,” t. 1558, 
