LACHNELLA. 259 
On dead bark of trees. 
Cups nearly 4 a line broad; at first globose, opening 
by a narrow mouth. The hairs are usually pale, but 
sometimes brown or reddish-brown, short, and tapering. 
The colour of the exterior varies, being paler towards 
the margin. 
Name—Cortex, bark ; growing on bark. 
Bristol (Mr. H. O. Stephens). Thame (Dr. Ayres). 
Rudloe, Wilts (Mr. C. E. Broome). Leigh Woods, near 
Bristol! (Mr. C. Bucknall). Forres, N.B.! (Rev. Dr. 
Keith). Forden, North Wales (Rev. J. E. Vize). Atting- 
ham Park, Salop! Rushbury, Salop! Bomere, Salop ! 
41. Lachnella canescens. (Cooke.) 
Gregarious or crowded, sessile, hemispherical, firm; 
clothed externally with flexuous, brown, septate hairs ; 
hymenium fuliginous-brown ; asci clavate ; sporidia fusi- 
form, at length pseudo-1-septate, 9—12 x 2u; paraphyses 
filiform. 
Peziza canescens—Cooke in litt. 
On naked wood. 
Cups nearly } of a line broad. This differs from Z 
corticalis in the fusiform sporidia, and the more con- 
spicuous septate hairs of the exterior. 
Name—Canus, hoary. 
Near Hereford (Mr. James Renny). 
42, Lachnella variecolor. (Fries.) 
Cups gregarious, sessile, but not adnate, globose, then 
hemispherical, rather firm; externally flocculoso-villose ; 
hymenium urceolate, white, becoming pallid; asci cylin- 
draceo-clavate; sporidia 8, oblong or  subfusiform, 
7—11 x 2—3nu; paraphyses filiform, slender. 
Peziza variecolor—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 100; 
“Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 197; Cooke, “Handbk.,” 2048. P. 
sulphurea—Pers., “Icon. et. Deser.,” t. 8, f.4,5.  Tapesia 
variecolor—Fckl., “ Symb. Myco.,” p. 302. Peziza albo- 
lutea—Nyl., “ Pez. Fenn.,” p. 29; Karst., “Mon. Pez.,” p. 
187. P. flavo-fuligonea—Karst., “Pez. et. Ascob.,” p. 20, 
