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from its thick substance. The outer coat is densely 
clothed with flexuous hairs ; the sporidia are shortly and 
bluntly fusiform (B. and Br.). 
Name—In honour of Mrs. Holme Sumner. a 
Fitcham Park (Mrs. Holme Sumner). Chiswick 
House! (Mr. Edmonds). Ware, Herefordshire (Mr. C. E. 
Broome). Guy’s Cliff, Warwick (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Orton 
(Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 
16. Lachnea hybrida. (Sow.) 
Cups crowded or scattered, sessile, hemispherical ; 
externally brown, paler towards the incurved margin, 
clothed with short, rigid, septate, brown hairs ; hymenium 
deep flesh-red; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, fusiform- 
elliptic, 2-guttulate, smooth, 21—25 x 8—10u; para- 
physes not seen. 
Peziza hybrida—Sow. in “Eng. Fung,,” t. 369, f. 1. 
Peziza brunnea—A. and §&., of “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 193; 
Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2020 ; “ Mycogr.,” fig. 126, b. 
On the ground. . 
Cups 2 to 6 lines broad. Sowerby says, “This Peziza 
resembles P. hispida (1.e. P. hemispherica), and is hairy 
on the outside, but whiter; the inside partakes of the 
redness of P, scutellata. We have had it growing two 
or three years at Mead Place, without any considerable 
variation ” (1. ¢.). 
P. hispida (Sow.) has been usually quoted as a 
synonym of P. brunnea (A. and §&.), erroneously, as it 
now appears, the original specimen having fortunately 
been found in Kew Herbarium. By the favour of Dr. 
Hooker we have been permitted to examine it, and have 
drawn up the above description. 
B, CUPS SMALLER ; HAIRS OFTEN FASCICULATE, 
(a) Sporida, elliptic. 
17. Lachnea gregaria. (Rehm.) 
Cups gregarious, sessile, hemispherical, concave; 
margin involute, becoming open, difformed, repand; ex- 
