272 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
65. Lachnella aranea. (De Not.) 
Cups minute, scattered, sessile, at first hemispherical, 
then expanded, white, clothed with long, flexuous, en- 
tangled hairs; hymenium white, when dry pale yellow; 
asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, biseriate, oblong or 
oblong-fusiform, 7 x lu; paraphyses slenderly filiform. 
Peziza aranea—De Not., “ Micro. Ital.” i. No. 1; 
“ Grevillea,” viii. pp. 101, 111. Trichopeziza aranea— 
Sace., “Mich.,” vi. p. 253. Phialea aranea—Gill, 
“Champ.,” p. 111. 
Exs.—Klotsch., “Herb. Myco.,” ii. 17; Phil, “Elv. 
Brit.,” 165; Ellis, “N. A. Fungi,” 843. 
On the inside of the husks of Spanish chestnut 
(Castanea vesca). 
Cups about 100 to 300u broad. They are at first 
mere tufts of snow-white, entangled hairs. 
Name—Araneum, a spider’s web; clothed with web- 
like hairs. 
Holme Lacy, Herefordshire! 
66. Lachnella serupulosa. (Karst.) 
Cups gregarious, sessile, thin, subhemispherical or 
subsoleniiform, white or yellowish-white, or cinerascent, 
rough with papille; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8 
narrowly fusiform or sub-acicular, 4—8 x 1—2u; para- 
physes filiform, slender. 
Peziza scrwpulosa—Karst., “Mon. Pez,” p. 178. 
Helotiwm scrupulosum—Karst., “ Myco, Fenn.,” p. 152. 
Peziza tomipera—Phil. in herb. 
On dead thorn-wood. 
Cups about 2004 broad. The external papill , 
formed by the ends of short, hair-like, tomipesvag all, 
which are remarkable from their habit of breaking off at 
the joints pass slight pressure. 
Name—Scrupulosus, full of little stones : 
the papille on the outside. pment 
Scarborough! (Mr. G. Massee), 
