LACHNEA., 213 
Feziza hirto-coccinea—Phil. and Plow. in “ Grevillea,” 
viii. p. 100; “ Scott. Nat.,” vi. 123. 
On the ground in pine woods, in damp, mossy places. 
Cups 2 to 4 lines broad. The hairs below the margin 
are shorter than those on the margin, and are often 
clavate, with or without septa. There is in some instances 
a conspicuous white mycelium below the cups. 
Name—Hivrtus, hairy, coccineus, scarlet; from the 
scarlet disc and hairy exterior. 
Forres, N.B, ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 
Var. fulvo-coceinea. Phil. 
Externally fulvous, sporidia smaller, 15—22 x 10—12u. 
On the ground. 
Name—Fulvus, tawny, coccineus, scarlet ; from the 
scarlet disc and tawny exterior. 
Near Wrexham ! (Mr. T. B. Acton). 
(c) Sporidia fusiform. 
15. Lachnea Sumneriana. (Cooke.) 
Cup large, scattered, waxy, sessile, at first globose, 
immersed, then partly exposed, becoming expanded, the 
margin splitting into irregular lobes ; externally chestnut- 
brown, covered with a dense coating of long, slender, 
brown, flexuous, septate hairs; hymenium pallid-ochra- 
ceous, with a tint of flesh-colour ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 
8, broadly fusiform, nucleate, smooth, 30—32 x 12n; 
paraphyses slender. 
Peziza lanuginosa, var. Swmneri—Berk. in “ Linn. 
Trans.,” xxv. t. 55, fig. 1; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” p. 680, No. 
2017; B. and Br. “Ann, Nat. Hist.,” 1866, No. 1161, t. 
4, £. 25; “Grevillea,” iii, fig. 100; Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” 
fig. 111. 
Exs.—Cooke, “Fung. Brit.,” i. 471, ii, 362; Phil, 
“ Elv. Brit.,” 62; Rabh., “Fung. Eur.,” 1419. 
On the ground, under cedars, larch, ete. Spring. 
Cup 1 to 2 inches broad. At first entirely buried, 
then forcing its way through the soil, and splitting into 
several lobes, like a Geaster, which it much resembles 
