LACHNEA. 221 
drical; sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, asperate, 22 x 15u 
paraphyses clavate at the apices, filled with yellow 
granules. 
Pexza vitellina—Pers., “Myco. Eur.,” p. 257; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” ii, 84; “Eng. Flo.” v. p. 193; Cooke, 
“ Handbk.,” No. 2023; B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
1866, No. 1163*, t. 4, f 29; “Grevillea,” iii. fig. 110; 
Cooke, “Mycoer.,” fig. 148. Lachnella vitellina—Gill., 
“Champ.,” p. 74. 
On the ground. Autumn. 
Cups 24 lines broad; hairs rather long, septate, 
coloured. 
Name—Vitellus, the yolk of an egg; from its colour. 
Appin (Carmichael). Wareham (Mr. C. E. Broome). 
Coed Coch, North Wales (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Worlaby! 
(Mr. C. H Spencer Perceval). 
(y) Hymenium livid. 
25. Lachnea livida. (Schum.) 
Cups gregarious, sessile, hemispherical, becoming 
plane; externally fuliginous, clothed with long, strigose, 
septate, brown hairs, those on the margin short, stout, 
and obtuse; hymenium livid-glaucous; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, minutely asperate, 20 x 10u; 
paraphyses linear, clavate at the apices. 
Peziza livida—Schum., “Saell.,” ii, p. 422; “Flo. 
Dan.,” t. 1915, f. 3. Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. 86; Weinm., 
p. 438; “Grevillea,” iii, fig. 222; Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” 
fig. 1389. Peziza scutellata—Batsch., “ Cont.,” f 154. 
Humaria livida—Fck1., “Symb. Myco.,” 322 (2). Lachnea 
livida—GilL, “Champ.,” p. 73. 
On rotten wood. Spring. 
Cups 24 lines broad; marginal hairs short, broad 
obtuse, septate, brown, 200 to 250ulong. Peziza cerulea 
(Bolt., “Fung.,” t. 108, fig. 2) is allied to this species 
(Cooke). 
Name—Lividus, a pale lead-colour. 
Dumfriesshire (Sir W. Jardine). 
