LACHNELLA. 233 
with dense, short, reddish-brown, septate hairs; hyme- 
nium waxy, subglaucous, greenish-olive; margin slightly 
infiexed, fimbriate; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, 
elliptic, guttulate, 10—12 x 34; paraphyses filiform, 
apices clavate, acuminate. (Plate VIT. fig. 43.) 
Peziza diplocarpa—Curr., “Linn. Trans.,” xxiv. p. 
158, t. 25, f. 30-33 ; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” 2047. 
On the ground. November. 
Cups $ of an inch wide; margin slightly inflexed and 
surrounded by a ring of hairs of a pale umber, forming a 
marked contrast in colour with the reddish brown outer 
hairs; disc waxy, somewhat glaucous, of a greenish 
olive colour; sporidia elliptic, with a nucleus at each 
extremity, usually slightly narrowed at each end, ‘0003 
inch (7) long ; paraphyses filiform, terminating in spore- 
like bodies, the latter 2 to 4-septate, acuminate at the 
apex, and tapering to the junction with the filament, 
varying much in length, from ‘0008 to 0018 inch (20u to 
5Ou). Allied to P. rufo-olivacea—A. and S. (Currey). 
Besides the peculiar bodies Mr. Currey regarded as 
the paraphyses, I find in the original specimen slender 
filiform paraphyses. (Plate VII. fig. 43.) 
Name—éimddog, double, capwéc, fruit; having two 
kinds of fruit. 
Joydens Wood, Dartford! (Mr. F. Currey). 
(8) Paraphyses acerose. 
2. Lachnella cerina. (Pers.) 
Cups. gregarious or crowded, shortly stipitate or sub- 
sessile, hemispherical, at length nearly plane, yellowish- 
olive, furfuraceo-villose ; hairs brown, asperate; hyme- 
nium yellowish or dull olive-yellow; margin connivent ; 
asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 6 x 3u; 
paraphyses slenderly acerose, exceeding the asci. (Plate 
VII. fig. 44.) 
Peziza cerina—Pers., “Syn. ey of 651; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 92; “ ‘Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 195; Holms., 
ii, t. 20; Nees, f 283; “ Flo. Daa, ” t. 1620 (lower fig.) ; 
