234 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Nyl., “Pez. Fenn.,” p. 25; Karst., “Mon. Pez.,” 184; 
Cooke, “Handbk.,” 2086. Dasyscypha cerina—Fckl., 
“Symb. Myco.,” p. 305. Helotiwm cerinwm—Karst., 
“ Myco. Fenn.,” p.156. Lachnea cerina—Gill., “ Champ.,” 
. 70, @ i. 
: Exs—Rabh., “Herb. Myco.,” 628; Fekl., “F. Rh,” 
1204; Karst., “Fung. Fenn.,” 319; Phil, “Elv. Brit.,” 
118; Roumg.,, “ Stirpes,” 264. 
On dead wood. September to June. 
Cups 4 to 4 a line broad; texture dry and firm. 
The stem when present is blackish, expanding into the 
dull olive-yellow cups. The hairs are decidedly rough, 
and yellowish-brown. Karsten says the hairs are 
articulate; I do not see them so in the specimens I 
examined, which were named by Persoon himself in 
Gay’s collection in Herb. Kew. 
Name—Cera, wax ; wax-coloured. 
Middletown, Montgomeryshire! Shelton, near Shrews- 
bury! Craven Arms, Salop! Llanyblodwell! Dinmore, 
Hereford ! Stapleton Park, near Bristol ! (Mr. C. Bucknall). 
Near Aberdeen! (J. W. H. Trail). 
(b) Sporidia fusiform. 
(a) Paraphyses filiform. 
8. Lachnella trichodea. (Phil. and Plow.) 
Cups gregarious or scattered, shortly stipitate, at first 
globose, then hemispherical, pale brown, clothed with 
rather long, fulvous, rigid hairs; hymenium pallid-white ; 
asci clavate-cylindrical; sporidia 8, biseriate, oblong- 
elliptic, biguttulate, 7 x 1-5y. 
Peziza trichodea—Phil. and Plow. in “ Grevillea,” iii. 
p. 125, t. 42, f. 4 
Exs.—Phil, “ Elv. Brit.,” 69. 
Cups 20 to 30u broad; the asci, 830 x 54. The hairs 
are mostly without septa, and thickened at the base. 
On dead pine-leaves. Autumn. 
Name—pié, hair, e?3o0c, resemblance ; like hair. 
