220 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Cups 8 to 5 lines broad; marginal hairs short, rather 
stout, septate, brown. 
Name—Umbrosus, shady ; growing in the shade. 
Berwick (Dr. Johnstone). Wrexham! (Mr. B. Acton). 
Colwyn Bay (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 
23. Lachnea hirta. (Schum.) 
Cups sessile, scattered, subhemispherical, fleshy; 
margin somewhat inflexed; clothed externally with 
brown septate hairs, those on the margin short and 
slender; hymenium concave, scarlet; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, asperate, 25 x 104; para- 
phgies clavate at the apices, filled with orange granules. 
Peziza hirta—Schum., “Saell.,” p. 422; Fries, “Sys. 
Myco.,” ii. 84; Pers, “Myco. Eur.” p. 245; Crouan, 
“Flo. Fin.” p. 51; B. and Br. “Ann. Nat. Hist,” No. 
557, 768; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2021; “Mycogr.,” fig. 
128. Peziza scutellata—Cooke, “Fung. Brit.,” ii, 187; 
- eral iii. fig. 218. Lachnea hirta—Gill., “Champ.,” 
p. 75, ¢ 1. 
Exs.—Cooke, “Fung. Brit.” i. 576, ii. 187; Phil, 
“Ely. Brit.” 19; Wright, “Cub.” 671; Rabh., “ Fung. 
Eur.,” 27. 
On the ground, ete. Autumn. 
Cups 23 lines broad; marginal hairs short, slender, 
septate, brown, 200 to 300u long (Cooke). 
Name—Hirtus, hairy. 
Wimbledon Common (Mr. C. E. Broome). Coed Coch 
(Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Wareham (Rev. W. Smith). 
Epping Forest ; Dalmeny; Ken Wood, Hampstead; and 
Highgate (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Forres, N.B.! (Rev. Dr. 
Keith), Llanrwst, North Wales! near Shrewsbury! 
(8B) Hymenium yellow. 
24, Lachnea vitellina. (Pers.) 
Cups subcespitose, sessile, hemispherical, at length 
expanded and flexuose; margin furnished with brown, 
septate bristles; hymenium bright yellow; asci cylin- 
