224 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
beset with brown septate hairs of two kinds—marginal 
long, rigid, ciliating, below stellate or peltate; hyme- 
nium red or dull red; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, broadly 
elliptic, smooth, 20—22 x 8—9u; paraphyses clavate at 
the apices, filled with red granules. 
Peziza stercorea—Pers., “ Obs.,” ii. p. 89; Fries, “Sys. 
Myoco.,” ii. 87; Karst., “Myco. Fenn.,” p. 71; Weinm., p. 
439; Crouan, “Flo. Fin.,” p. 52; Kickx., “Flo. Flan.,” i. 
491; “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 194; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 
2028; “Grevillea,” iii. fig, 117; “Mycogr.,” fig. 147. 
Peziza lutea—Reich. in “ Berl. Ges. Natur.,” iii. p. 216, 
t.4,£7. Peziza equina— Flo. Dan.,” t. 779, f 3; Sow., 
“Fung.” t. 352. Octospora scutellata—Hedw., “ Mus. 
Frond.,” ii. t. 3, f. aA. Peziza scutellata—Bolt., “ Fung.,” 
t. 108, £1. Peziza ciliata—Bull., “Champ.,” p. 257, t. 
438, £.2. Humaria stercorea—Fckl., “Symb. Myco.,” p. 
321. Lachnea stercorea—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 76. 
Exs.—FcklL., “ F. Rh.,” 2081 (?); Karst., “ Fung. Fenn.,” 
633. : 
On cow, horse, and rabbit dung, and rich soil. Spring 
and summer. 
Name—Stercus, dung; from its habitat. 
Wood Newton; West Farleigh; Caradoc; Coed Coch 
(Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Epping Forest and Highgate (Dr. 
M. C. Cooke). Jedborough (Sir W. Jerdon). Twycross 
(Rev. A. Bloxam). Wrekin, Salop ! 
30. Lachnea coprinaria. (Cooke.) 
Cups subgregarious, sessile, fleshy, hemispherical, then 
plane; margin elevated, orange-red or scarlet, clothed 
with pale, brown, septate hairs ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 
8, elliptic, smooth, 18—20 x 104; paraphyses clavate at 
the apices, filled with orange granules. 
Peziza coprinaria—Cooke in “ Grevillea,” iv. p. 91; 
“ Mycogr.,” fig. 149. 
On cow-dung. Autumn. 
Cups 5 lines broad; external cells of cup very large ; 
marginal hairs long, simple, septate, 4 mm. long, mixed 
with others that are shorter, mostly confined to the 
