LACHNELLA. 271 
(ii.) Cups white or greyish-white. 
63. Lachnella edema. (Desm.) 
Cups very minute, rather crowded, sessile, globose, 
then expanded, slightly pubescent, greyish white, soft, 
subtremellose ; asci clavate, bent; sporidia 8, biseriate, 
fusiform, 6—9 x 24; paraphyses scarce, slenderly fili- 
form. 
Peziza edema—Desm., “Ann. Sc. Nat.” 1850; 
Steven., “Myco. Scot.,” p. 317; “ Grevillea,” viii. p. 101. 
P. epiphragmidiwm—Phil. in Herb. Mollisia edema— 
Gill, “Champ.,” p. 128. 
On decayed leaves of Rubus fruticosus, seated on 
Phragmidium. 
Cups 100 to 150u broad. Although the pubescence 
is visible under a low power of the microscope, the hairs 
are diffluent in water, and vanish away. When dried 
for the herbarium, it becomes pale fuliginous or watery- 
umber. 
Name—oidnua, a swelling; seated on a swelling 
formed by the Phragmidiwm. 
Dolgelly, North Wales! Scotland (Rev. Dr. Keith). 
64, Lachnella araneo-cincta. Phil. 
Cups scattered, minute, sessile, at first hemispherical, 
then expanded, concave, thin, white, when dry yellowish ; 
margin ciliated with long, slender, flexuous, pointed, 
white hairs; asci broadly clavate; sporidia 8, biseriate, 
narrowly fusiform, acutely pointed, 10—13 x 1p. 
Peziza araneo-cincta—Phil. in Bucknall, “ Fung. 
Bristol,” No. 621; “ Grevillea,” x. p. 68. 
Exs.—Phil., “ Elv. Brit.,” No. 169. 
On decayed birch-leaves. 
Cups 200 to 300u broad. The hairs are non-septate, 
and so delicate that they are diffluent in water, with 
only slight pressure. 
Name—Araneum, a spider’s web, cinctus, girded ; 
from the web-like hairs on the margin. 
Clifton, near Bristol! (Mr. C. Bucknall). 
