266 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
sporidia subeymbiform, hyaline, 10 x 2‘5u; paraphyses 
slenderly filiform. ae 
Peziza dematiicola—B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist, 
No. 1070, t. 15, f. 20; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2117. 
On dead wood, nestling amongst the flocci of some 
Helminthosporoid fungus, but whether at all related or 
not we cannot say. This very beautiful, though minute, 
species has a mixed resemblance to an Hacipula and 
such Ascoboli as A. ciliatus (B. and Br., l. ¢.). 
Cups 100 to 500 broad. It is not merely ciliated, 
but clothed with delicate hyaline hairs. The cups when 
old are applanate, extremely thin, having a raised margin. 
Name—Dematium, a genus of Hyphomycetes, colo, to 
inhabit. 
Herb. Berkeley! Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham ! 
(Mr. W. B. Grove). 
54, Lachnella melazantha. (Fries.) 
Gregarious, sessile, minute; externally farinaceo- 
villose, greyish-yellow ; hairs hyaline; hymenium rather 
concave, black; margin a little prominent; asci cylin- 
draceo-clavate; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, 5—7 x 2u; 
paraphyses (7). 
eziza melazantha—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 97; 
“Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 196; Cooke, “Handbk.,” 2043. Lach- 
nella melazantha—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 89. 
On fallen branches of beech. Autumn. Very rare. 
Cups } of a line broad, turbinate, black at the base; 
texture dry and firm; the hairs are very slender and 
flexuous. But for the black disc and being sessile, it 
resembles L. tricolor (Sow.). 
Name—wedac, black, and EavOdc, yellow; from the 
colour of the exterior and the disc. 
Appin, N.B, (Captain Carmichael). 
(ii.) Cups white or greyish-white 
55. Lachnella sporotricha. (Oude.) 
_ Cups very minute, sessile, globose, opening by a very 
minute pore, white, villose; hairs slender, colourless, 
