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(B) Paraphyses acerose. 
(i.) Cups coloured. 
67. Lachnella albo-testacea. (Desm.) 
Cups scattered, erumpent, sessile, hemispherical, then 
expanded ; externally white and brick-red colour, floccose ; 
hairs slender, septate, flexuose ; hymenium flesh-colour ; 
asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, fusiform, linear, 
straight or curved, 7—10 x 1—2u; paraphyses acerose, 
slender. 
Peziza albo-testacea—Desm., “Ann. Se. Nat.,” xix. 
(1843), p. 368; B. and Br., “ Ann. Nat. Hist.,” No. 560; 
Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2059. Lachnea albo-testacea— 
Gill, “ Champ.,” p. 86. 
Exs.—Desm., “ Crypt. Fr.,” 1415. 
On dead stems of grass. July. 
Cups about 500u broad. “The exterior is of a brick- 
red colour, the hairs with which it is covered being 
white at their tips.” 
Name—Albus, white, testaceus, brick-coloured. 
King’s Cliffe (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 
68. Lachnella candidata. (Cooke.) 
Snowy-white, sessile, soft, scattered or subgregarious, 
soon flattened ; margin often lobed and irregular, slightly 
elevated ; externally clothed with soft, tomentose hairs ; 
asci subclavate ; sporidia 8, minute, cylindrical, obtuse, 
hyaline, 7 x 1-5u. 
Peziza candidata—Cooke in “ Grevillea,” i. p 130. 
On stems of Rubus. 
Highgate (Dr. Cooke). 
69. Lachnella epispheria. (Mart.) 
Cups sessile, becoming plane ; externally white, beset 
with long, ciliato-pilose hairs; hymenium pale yellowish. 
Peziza epispheria—Mart., “Eyl.” p. 465; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco ” ii. p. 100; “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 197; Cooke, 
“ Handbk.,” No. 2049. 
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