LACHNELLA. 235 
Trefriw, North Wales! Ercall Hill, Salop! Marsh 
Brook, Salop! General Cemetery, Shrewsbury ! 
4, Lachnella Stevensoni. (B. and Br.) 
Minute, subglobose, sugar-coloured ; externally granu- 
lar; stem very short, incrassated upwards; asci clavate ; 
sporidia 8, minute, subcymbeform, 8 x 2u; paraphyses 
filiform, slender. 
Peziza (Mollisia) Stevensoni—B. and Br., “ Ann. Nat. 
Hist.,” No. 1485; “Grevillea,” iii. p. 122. 
On decorticated wood. 
Sporidia ‘0005 inch (12u) long. This is accompanied 
by creeping threads, which give off erect branches bear- 
ing obovate spores ‘001° inch (254) long. Probably a 
conidiiferous state (B. and Br.). 
The specimens in the Rev. M. J. Berkeley’s herbarium 
are minutely hairy ; hairs delicate, nearly colourless ; cups 
200 to 205u broad; the stem nearly absent, or rather 
long ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, oblongo-fusiform, 8 x 2u; 
paraphyses filiform, slender. 
Name—After the Rev. J. Stevenson. 
5. Lachnella fuscescens. (Pers.) 
Cups scattered, stipitate, at first globose, then hemi- 
spherical, tawny, clothed with bay-brown hairs; hyme- 
nium pale brown; stem very short; asci cylindraceo- 
clavate; sporidia linear, obtuse, 10 x lu; paraphyses 
filiform. 
Peziza fuscescens—Pers.,, “Syn. Fung,” p. 654; 
“Myco. Eur.,” p. 265; A. and S., “Consp.,” 325; Fekl., 
“Symb. Myco.,” p. 309; Phil. “Grevillea,” iii. p. 188; 
B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” No. 1622; “ Grevillea,” v. 
p. 61; Cooke, “ Carp. Grevillea,” p. 127, t. 40, f. 154. 
Exs.—Fckl., “ F. Rh.,” 1168; Roumg., “ Fung. Gal.,” 
1959. 
On the under side of dead beech-leaves. Autumn. 
Cups the size of P. brwnneola, which it resembles, 
but the paraphyses are not acerose, as in that species. 
