262 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
nium concave, white; asci sever ; sporidia 8, fusiform, 
5 x 1p; paraphyses filiform, slender. - 
Piven Gane ini Rob in Desm., “ Ann. Se. Nat., 
t. xiv. 1850. 
On the under side of dead bramble-leaves. 
Cups 2504 broad. The hairs are short, reddish, bay~ 
brown; the disc becomes cinereous or brownish. 
Name—Dumus, a bramble; from the habitat. 
Batheaston, near Bath! (Mr. C. Broome). Dolgelly, 
North Wales! 
48. Lachnella Schwmachert. (Fries.) 
Cups gregarious or crowded, sessile, hemispherical, 
externally tomentose, brown; hymenium becoming nearly 
plane, purplish-brown or cinereous; asci cylindraceo- 
clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform or cylindraceo-fusiform, 
straight or sometimes curved, 8—13 x 2—3u ; paraphyses 
filiform. 
Peziza Schwmacheri—Fries, “ Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 98; 
“Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 196; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2045; Gill., 
“Champ.,” p. 89, ¢. i. 
Exs.—Phil., “ Elv. Brit.,” 167. 
On dead wood. Not uncommon. Autumn. 
Cups about 4 to % of a line broad, dark brown; 
hymenium purplish-brown or cinereous; margin fringed 
with very short, brown, septate hairs, hardly distinguish- 
able even with a pocket lens, hence it is doubtful whether 
it should not be removed to Mollisia, near cinerea. 
Name—After C. F. Schumacher. 
Var. B. plumbea. (Grev.) Distinguished by the lead- 
coloured or bluish hymenium. 
Peziza plumbea—Grev., t. 11; “Flo. Dan.,” t. 1786, 
1. 
North Wootton! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Darenth 
(Dr. Cooke). Shrewsbury ! 
49. Lachnella escharodes. (B. and Br.) 
Cups scattered, sessile, globose, then hemispherical, 
rugose, rough with short, whitish, deciduous flocci, then 
