250 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
stipitate, 8-spored, nearly 60u long, 64 broad ; sporidia 
in two rows, fusiform, acute at each end, straight or 
curved, or sigmoid. 
Peziza echinulata—Awd., “ Hedwig.,” 1868, p. 136. 
Peziza patula—Rabh., “ Fung. Eur.,” 1009, nee 425, que 
vera. P. patula—P. sec et Desm., “ Ann. Se. Nat.,” 2, 
xv. p. 132. P. ciliaris, B. globulifera—P. sec. Desm., 1. 
1. p. 130. 
Name—Zchinatus, set with prickles ; from the angular 
knobs of oxalate of lime on the hairs. 
28. Lachnella Rhytisme. Phil. 
Cups gregarious, stipitate, at first globose, then hemi- 
spherical, white ; clothed with short villose hairs, bearing 
on their summits globular crystalline beads; hymenium 
white; stem rather long, villose to the base; asci cylin- 
drical or cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, oblong-fusiform, 
3—5 x lu; paraphyses acerose, exceeding the asci. 
Peziza Rhytisme—Phil. in “ Grevillea,” viii. p. 101; 
“Scott. Nat.,” vi. 124. 
On dead leaves of Acer on Rhytisma acerinum. 
Cups 300u broad; stem about 400u long. The hairs 
of the cup are short, non-septate, colourless, and the 
globular crystalline heads are perfectly even, not angular, 
as in most other species, though slightly rough. 
Name—Rhytisma, the genus of fungi on which it 
grows. 
Forres, N.B.! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 
29. Lachnella crucifera. Phil. 
Cups gregarious, stipitate, white, at first globose, then 
expanded ; clothed with short, septate, colourless hairs, 
the summits of which are subclavate, and each crowned 
with a cruciform crystal; stem rather long, villose to the 
base ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, cylindrical or - 
narrowly fusiform, straight, 6—8 x lu; paraphyses 
acerose, exceeding the asci. 
P a ae crucifera—Phil. in Gard. Chron., 1878, p. 397, 
1g. (4. 
