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what ribbed or channelled appearance; hymenium the 
same colour; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, fusiform, 
straight or slightly curved, colourless, 10 x 24; para- 
physes acerose, sometimes septate, exceeding the asci. 
Helotiwm luteolwm—Curr. in “ Linn. Trans.,” xxiv. p 
158; t. 25, f. 11, 12, 18; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” 2138. 
On dead stick of gorse, the end of which was sunk in 
the mud in a pool of water. May. 
Cup } a line broad, } of a line high. 
Remarkable in its densely ceespitose and branching 
habit, and the paraphyses are very peculiar. Its aquatic 
habit is also an unusual character (Currey). 
Having examined the original specimen, I have no 
hesitation in placing it here. The presence of hairs and 
acerose paraphyses forbid it being an Helotiwm. 
Name—Luteus, yellow ; yellowish. 
Paul’s Cray Common! (Mr. F. Currey). 
25. Lachnella virginea. (Batsch.) 
Cups gregarious, at first globose, then hemispherical, 
stipitate ; externally white, beset with crowded patent 
hairs; hymenium white; stem short, rather stout; asci 
clavate-cylindrical ; sporidia 8, oblong-fusiform, 5— 
10 x 1—2u; paraphyses acerose, exceeding the asci. 
Peziza virginea—Batsch. in Pers., “Obs.,” i. p. 28; 
and “ Myco. Eur.,” i. p. 262; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii, p. 90; 
Mich., t. 86, f. 15; Bull. t. 376, £ 3; Holms., ii. t. 14; 
Sow., t. 65; “Eng. Flo.” v. p. 194; Karst., “Pez. et 
Ascob.,” 15; and “Mon. Pez.,” 192; Cooke, “Handbk.,” 
2032. Dasyscypha virginea—Fckl., “Symb. Myco.,” p. 
305. Peziza parvula— Flo. Dan.,” t. 1016, f 4 Lach- 
num virginewm—Karst., “ Myco. Fenn.,” 169. Lachnea 
virginea—Gill., “ Champ.,” p. 68, ¢. i. 
Exs.—Fckl., 1208; Cooke, “Fung. Brit.,” 560, and ed. 
ii, No. 545; Phil, “Elv. Brit.” 21; Rehm, “ Asco.,” 14; 
Winter, “ Fungi Eur.,” 2743. ; 
On wood, bark, branches, ete. 
Cups about } of a line broad. The acerose paraphyses 
at once distinguish this from L. nivea. 
