tier Rh a & A, 
LACHNELLA. 275 
Key To THe Sprcirs, 
Hymenium greenish-olive .. ss ae +» vrufo-olivacea, 
Hymenium umber-brown .. oo a «. fraxinicola. 
Hymenium brownish .. es oe o. +. stparia. 
A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC. 
71. Lachnella rufo-olivacea. (A. and S.) 
Cups scattered, sessile, firm, hemispherical, then 
plane ; externally villose-pulverulent, dingy ferruginous- 
red; hymenium greenish-olive, at length black; asci 
cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, globose-elliptic, bi- 
nucleate, becoming pseudo-septate, 15 x 7u; paraphyses 
filiform, septate, thickened at the apices. (Plate VIIT. 
fig. 49.) 
Peziza rufo-olivacea—A. and S., “Consp.,” 320, t. 11, 
f. 4; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 99; “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 197; 
Mart., “Erl.,” p. 464; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2046. 
Velutaria rufo-olivacea—Fckl., “Symb. Myco.,” p. 300. 
Lachnea rufo-olivacea—Gill., “ Champ.,” p. 85.- 
Exs.—Rabh., “ Fung. Eur.,” 1420; Fekl, “F. Rh.,” 
1192. 
On dead branches of rose and bramble. 
Cups } to 4 a line broad. Coarse brown granules 
are found on the exterior amongst the tomentum. 
Name— Rufus, reddish-brown, olivaceus, olive-colour. 
Longmynd and Red Hill, near Shrewsbury ! Forres, 
N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 
72. Lachnella fraxinicola. (B. and Br.) 
Cups scattered or gregarious, sessile, at first closed, 
then opening with an irregular aperture, at length 
orbicular, slightly depressed ; externally pale fawn-colour, 
furfuraceous; internally brown; hymenium umber- 
brown; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, broadly 
elliptic, faintly brown, 10—13 x 7—8u. 
Peziza fraxinicola—B. and Br., “ Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
1160, t. 4, £. 21; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” 2011. 
On ash-twigs. 
Cups about 4 a line broad, plane or slightly concave, 
