236 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Name—Fuscus, brown; becoming brown. t 
Builth, South Wales! 
(B) Paraphyses acerose. 
6. Lachnella clandestina. (Bull.) 
Cups gregarious, stipitate, turbinate, then cyathiform, 
fawn-coloured or brown, clothed with brown septate 
hairs; hymenium pallid, often brownish ; stem enlarged 
upwards from the darker, woody base; asci clavate- 
cylindrical; sporidia 8, fusiform, 5—8 x 154; para- 
physes acerose, exceeding the asci. 
Peziza clandestina—Bull, “ Champ.,” p. 251 (not fig.); 
Pers., “ Obs.,” i. p. 41; “Myco. Eur.,” p. 262; Fries, “Sys. 
Myco.,” ii. p. 94; “Eng. Flo.” v. p. 195; Johnst., “Flo. 
Ber.,” p. 151; Nyl., “Pez. Fenn.,” p. 26; Karst., “ Pez. et 
Ascob.,” p. 18; and “Mon. Pez.,” p. 196. Lachnwm clan- 
destinwm—Karst., “ Myco. Fenn.,” p. 178. Dasyscypha 
clandestina—Fckl., “Sym. Myco.,” p. 305. Lachnea 
clandestina—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 69. 
Exs.—Desm., “ Crypt. Fr.,” ed. i. 1537, and ed. ii. 1087; 
Rabh., “Herb. Myeco.,” ed. ii. 21; Sommf., 100; Karst., 
“ Fung. Fenn.,” 52; Phil., “ Elv. Brit.,” 67 ; Winter, “ Fungi 
Eur.,” 2840; Roumg., “Stirpes,” 330. 
On dead stems of Rubus Idceus. 
Cups $ to 4 a line broad, about the same high; gre- 
garious, rather persistent; stem ligneous; cups entire, 
closed except when moist, but then concave; the hairs 
are rather long, flexuose, pointed, septate, brown. 
Name—Clandestinus, hidden ; from lying under dead 
leaves. 
Forres, N.B.! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Hawkstone, Salop ! 
7. Lachnella caulicola. (Fries.) 
Cups gregarious, stipitate, turbinato-globose, then 
hemispherical, yellowish-brown or pale umber, pubescent 
and subfarinaceous, becoming glabrous; hymenium the 
same colour; stem half the whole height, but variable; 
asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform or oblong- 
