.LACHNELLA. 251 
On dead twigs of Myrica gale. Spring and autumn. 
Cups about 300u broad, and about. 500u high. 
This differs from L. echinulata (Awd.) in having a 
longer stipes, being persistently white when dry, and 
having what appear to be cruciform bodies on the sum- 
mits of the hairs. These bodies prove to be crystals of 
oxalate of lime (octahedra). 
Name—Crua, cross, fero, to bear; from the hairs 
appearing to have crosses at their summits. 
Capel Curig, North Wales! North Wootton, Norfolk ! 
(Mr. C. B. Plowright). Forres, N.B.! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 
Cockshutt, Salop ! 
30. Lachnella patula. (Pers.) 
Cups gregarious, stipitate, at first globose, then 
hemispherical, white, villose; the hairs long, slender, 
colourless, non-septate, acute, spreading; hymenium 
lutescent ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform 
or oblong-elliptic, 8—12 x 15u; paraphyses acerose, 
exceeding the asci. 
Pezza patula—Pers,, “Obs.,” i. p. 42; “Syn. Fung. 
p. 654; “Myeo. Eur.” p. 262; A. and &., p. 324; Nees, 
“ Sys.,” f. 284; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. 91. Hyalopeziza 
patula—Fckl., “Symb. Myco.,” p. 298. Lachnea patula 
—Gill., “ Champ.,” p. 72. 
Exs.—Fckl., “F. Rh.,” 1189; Rehm, “ Asco.,” 258 and 
259; Libert, “ Crypt. Ard.,” 225. 
On oak-leaves decaying in damp places. 
Cups 300u to 500u broad; stem very short, hairs 
much spreading, flexuose, and somewhat entangled. 
The hairs are longer and slenderér than in L. ciliaris. 
This is an exceedingly minute species. 
Name—Patulus, spreading ; from the long, spreading 
hairs. 
Wellington, Salop ! 
31. Lachnella ciliaris. (Schum.) 
Cups minute, stipitate, at first globose, then cyathi- 
form, waxy, snow-white, externally beset with long, 
somewhat spreading, scattered, septate, white hairs; 
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