228 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Shwz., but hairs much longer, with a bulbous base, a 
darker dise, and paraphyses not enlarged at the summits, 
Name—Bulbus, a bulb, crinis, hair; from its bulbous 
hairs. 
Forres, N.B.! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 
86. Lachnea albospadicea. (Grev.) 
Cups gregarious, sessile, subglobose, then hemi- 
spherical, at length plane, fleshy; external surface and 
margin strigose with short, septate, reddish-brown hairs ; 
hymenium white; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, 
1-guttulate, smooth, 20 x 9—10u; paraphyses clavate 
at the apices. 
Peziza albospadicea—Grev., “Flo. Edin,” p. 420; 
“Eng. Flo.,” v. 194; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2030; 
“Mycogr.,” fig. 141. 
On the ground in woods. Autumn. 
A fine species, about 2 lines broad, globose when 
young, gradually becoming plane; hymenium white, 
smooth, with a slight tinge of grey in moist weather. 
External surface covered with reddish-brown hairs, which 
form also a border to the. hymenium (Grev., J. ¢.). 
Hairs very short and delicate, about 100u long 
(Cooke, 0. ¢.). 
Name— Albus, white, spadiceus, bay ; from the colour. 
Foxhall, near Edinburgh (Messrs. Wauch and Greville). 
Henbury, near Bristol (Mr. C. H. Spencer Perceval). 
37. Lachnea cretea. (Cooke.) 
Cups subgregarious, sessile, hemispherical, at length 
expanded ; external surface and margin beset with erect, 
short, brown, septate hairs; hymenium white; asci 
cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, colourless, smooth, 
12—18 x 84; paraphyses linear. 
Peziza cretea—Cooke, “ Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin.,” 1877, 
p. 46, t. 8, K-N; “Grevillea,” vi. p. 75, t. 97, fig. 4-7; 
“ Mycogr.,” fig. 362. 
On plaster walls and ceiling exposed to the weather 
by the burning of the roof. 
