226 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Exs.—Phil. “Elv. Brit.” 20; Rabh., “ Fung. Eur.,” 
621; Cooke, “Fung. Brit.” i. 571, ii. 185. 
On spent hops. 
Cups 24 lines broad; at first obovate or subcylin- 
drical, concave, and expanded, when mature of a bright 
orange colour within; beset externally with delicate, 
erect, white hairs, which are hyaline under the micro- 
scope; seated at first on a delicate white subiculum, 
which disappears as the plant advances to maturity, and 
the cups become crowded (B. and Br.). 
Name—Thelebolus, a genus of fungi, ?8oc, likeness ; 
Thelebolus-like. 
Batheaston, near Bath; Ilford (Mr. C. E. Broome). 
Manor House, Ealing! (Mr. C. H. Spencer. Perceval). 
Glamis, N.B. (Rev. J. Stevenson). Shrewsbury ! 
33. Lachnea erecta. (Sow.) 
Cups gregarious or crowded, subcylindrical, smooth, 
yellowish, at length dilated ; mouth erect, subciliate. 
Peziza erecta—Sow. in “ Eng. Fung.,” t. 369, figs. 10, 
11; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 69; “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 194; 
Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 1996. 
“On very wet moss in damp places. Cups 2 lines 
high, oblong and upright, but sometimes short and 
clumsy, often spreading; sometimes destitute of hairs, 
sometimes ciliated, sometimes furnished with both hairs 
and ciliz; varying from a deep red to greenish-yellow 
and pale yellow ” (Sow., J. ¢.). 
“This species is placed by Fries in the series Alewria 
and subgenus Humaria; but its affinity seems to be 
much greater to the species of the present genus (Sarco- 
scypha), if indeed it be not a form of P. theleboloides, A. 
and S. The smooth state on moss may possibly be P. 
axillaris. Unfortunately, no specimens appear to have 
been preserved ” (Berkeley, l. c.). 
Dr. Cooke remarks in “Mycographia,” under P. 
pulcherrima, Or. (fig. 154), Peziza erecta, Sow., is evi- 
dently allied to this species. , 
