252 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
hymenium white; asci clavate; sporidia 8, fusiform, 
straight or curved, hyaline, obliquely uniseriate, 18 x 2; 
paraphyses acerose, slightly exceeding the asci. 
Peziza ciliaris—Schrad., “Bot. Jour.,” 1799, ii. p. 2; 
Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 89; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 
2031. Hyalopeziza ciliaris—Fckl., “Symb. Myco.,” 
p. 298, Lachnea ciliaris—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 68, ¢. 1. 
Exs.—Fckl1, “F. Rh,” 1189; Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” 
573; ed. i. 373. 
On dead oak-leaves. Autumn. 
Cups about 300u broad. Very similar to L. patula. 
Name—Czilium, the eyelash ; from the fringed margin. 
Near Shrewsbury ! 
32. Lachnella acutipila. (Karst.) 
Cups gregarious or scattered, stipitate, at first globose, 
at length somewhat plane or a little convex, when dry 
concave; margin piloso-fimbriate; stem very short; asci 
cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, slenderly fusiform, com- 
monly straight, with many guttule, 8—16 x 1—l‘dy; 
paraphyses acerose. 
Peziza acutypila—Karst., “Mon. Pez,” p. 195. 
Lachnum acutipilum—Karst., “ Myco. Fenn.,” p. 173. 
On Pyragmites communis. April to October. 
Cups about 800u broad; hairs of the cup septate, 
cuspidate, 4u thick; dise sometimes lutescent. Re- 
sembling the preceding. 
Var. letior. (Karst., 1. ¢., p. 174.) 
Cups sessile .or subsessile, a little larger, in a dry 
state contracted and difformed; disc dilutely yellow, 
when dry yellow; sporidia somewhat larger. 
The hairs in my specimens are rough, with a few 
amorphous crystals of oxalate of lime at the summit. 
On dead stems of Rubus ideus. Summer and autumn. 
Name Acutus, sharp, pilus, hair; from the acute 
hairs with which it is clothed. 
pei N.B.! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Church Stretton, 
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