230 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
smooth, 20 X 9u; paraphyses clavate at the apices, filled 
with orange-red -granules. 
Peziza crucipila—Cooke and Phil. in “Mycogr.,” 
fig. 237; Pat. p. 209, f. 481. Lachnea crucipila—Gill, 
“Champ.,” figure only. 
Exs.—Cooke, “Fung. Brit.,” ed. ii. 647. 
On the earth in shady damp places in woods. 
Summer and autumn. 
Cups 4 to 1 line broad. The forked hairs, which are 
intermixed with simple ones, are 200u long. 
Name—Crua, a cross, pilus, the hair. 
Downton Castle, Herefordshire! Newport, Salop! 
Highgate and Heywood Forest (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 
Doubtful species. 
Lachnea coerulea. (Bolt.) | 
Plane, ciliated, black and smooth externally; hairs 
soft, pallid ; disc bright blue. : 
Peziza cerulea—Bolt., t. 108, f. 2; Fries, “Sys. 
Myco.,” ii p. 86; “Eng. Flo,” v. p. 193; Cooke, 
“ Handbk.,” No. 2026. Lachnea coerulea—Gill., “Champ.,” 
p. 73. 
On putrid wood, in moist places under fir-trees; very 
rare. October. 
Cups about 2 lines broad. 
This has not been observed since Bolton’s time. 
May he not have had before him young specimens of 
Corticium ceruleum (Fries), which often assume a form 
agreeing with his figure? Compare his figure (108, f. 2) 
with Sowerby’s 350. 
Genus IX.—LAcHNELLA. Fries (amended). 
Cups small, stipitate or sessile ; flesh thin, firm, waxy; 
externally pilose or villous; asci cylindrical or sub- 
clavate; sporidia 8, colourless; paraphyses filiform or 
acerose. (Plates VII., VIII. figs. 43-49.) 
Name—Diminutive of the preceding genus. | 
