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margin, not branched or steHate. Cups remain flattened 
in drying (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 
Name—Ooprus, dung; from its habitat. 
Loughton, Essex (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Rannoch, N.B. 
(Dr. Buchanan White). Batheaston (Mr. C. E. Broome), 
31. Lachnea rubra. (Cooke.) 
Cups gregarious, fleshy, subglobose, becoming ex- 
panded ; margin elevated, orange-red, beset with short, 
brown, septate hairs; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 
smooth, 18—20 x 10u; paraphyses clavate at the apices. 
Peziza rubra—Cooke in “ Mycogr.,” fig. 152. Peziza 
theleboloides (A. and §.), var. rubra—Cooke in “ Fung. 
Brit.,” ser. i. No. 572; “ Grevillea,” iii. fig. 119. 
Exs.—Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” i. 572, 11, 186. 
On spent hops. 
Cups about 24 lines broad; hairs reddish brown, 
about 200u long, two or three times as thick as in P. 
theleboloides, with which species it has been confounded. 
Although growing. in company, there appears to be good 
grounds for regarding them as distinct (Dr. M. C. Cooke, 
l. ¢.). 
Name—FRuber, red. 
Batheaston, near Bath (Mr. C. E. Broome) 
(B) Hymenium yellow. 
32. Lachnea theleboloides. (A. and §.) 
Cups gregarious or crowded, fleshy, at first subglobose, 
then hemispherical, at length expanded, flexuose; ex- 
ternally whitish, clothed with slender, septate, nearly 
colourless hairs ; hymenium pale yellow ; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 12—14 x 74; paraphyses 
filiform, clavate at the apices. 
Peziza theleboloides—A. and §., “Consp.,” p. 322, t. 
12, f. 4; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. 88; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” 
No. 2029; B, and Br., * Ann, Nat. Hist.,” No. 1065, t. 15, 
fig. 17; “Grevillea,” iii. fig. 118; Cooke, “Mycogr.,” fig. 
151. Lachnea theleboloides—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 74. 
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