LACHNEA, 223 
straight, long, septate, black-brown hairs ; hymenium ver- 
milion-red ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, 
granular within smooth, 20—22 x 11—13,; paraphyses 
clavate at the apices, filled with orange granules. 
Peziza scutellata—Linn., “Suec.,” 458; Fries, “Sys. 
Myco.,” ii. 85; Sow., “Fung.,” t. 24; Bull, “Champ.,” p. 
247, t. 10; “Flo. Dan..” t. 1457, f. 2; Karst., “Myco. 
Fenn.,” p. 70; Weinm., p. 437; Kickx., “Flo. Flan.,” i. p. 
491; “Eng. Flo.,” v. 193; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2025 ; 
Weberb., 1. t. 8, f. 3; “Grevillea,” iii fig. 114; Cooke, 
“ Mycogr.,” fig. 131; Pat., p. 34, f. 81. Hlevela ciliata— 
Scheeff,, “Icon.,” t. 284. Peziza ciliata—Hoftm., “ Crypt.,” 
ii. p. 25, t. 7, £3; Holms., “ Ot.,” ii. p. 56, t. 18. Octospora 
scutellata—Sch., “ Flo. Bar.,” ii. 504, Octospora hirta— 
Hedw., “ Mus. Frond.,” t. 8, B. Humaria scutellata— 
Fekl., “Symb. Myco.,” p. 321. Lachnea scutellata—Gill., 
“ Champ.,” p. 75. 
Exs.—F ck]., “F. Rh,” 1210; Desm., “ Crypt. Fr.,” i. 
702; Karst., “Fung. Fenn.,” 144; Phil, “ Elv. Brit.,” 64; 
Roumg., “ Fung. Gal.” 2948 ; Cooke, “Fung. Brit.,” ed. ii. 
No. 554. 
On rotten wood in damp places. Autumn. 
Cups 23 to 3 lines broad; marginal hairs long (600n), 
septate, brown, attenuated in the upper half. 
Name—Scutella, a little saucer. 
King’s Cliffe ; Bodelwyddan, North Wales ; Coed Coch, 
North Wales; Stanton, Aboyne (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 
Langridge, Somerset (Mr. C. E. Broome). Argyleshire 
(Paterson). Wingfield; Abinger, Surrey; Sutton Park, 
Birmingham ; Edinburgh, Glasgow (Dr. M. ©. Cooke). 
Fern, N.B. (Rev. J. Fergusson). Preston, Salop (Rev. W. 
Houghton). Wrexham! (Mr. B. Acton). Llyn Idwell, 
North Wales! Downton, near Ludlow! Aberystwith ! 
Bomere Pool, near Shrewsbury! Almond Park, near 
Shrewsbury ! 
29. Lachnea stercorea. (Fries.) 
Cups gregarious, sessile, fleshy, when young closed 
and subglobose, then concave, at length plane, dingy red, 
