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Opinions seem to vary as to the spores. Massee says they 

 are at first smooth and then minutely aspirate ; Phillips says they 

 are smooth ; Cooke in Mycographia says they have sometimes a 

 tendency to become rough and gives figures to illustrate. 



-\-Lachnea sctosa (Nees.) Phil. Brit, Disco. 406. 1887. 

 Peziza setosa Nees. Sys. 260. f. 275. 1817. 



Apothecia caespitose or in groups, 6-8 mm. broad, sessile, 

 plane, mahogany-red, after drying losing color and then pale yel- 

 lowish gray, exterior of the cup covered with dark brown, sep- 

 tate, pointed hairs. Hymenium reddish, hypothecium of the 

 same color, outer cells of the cup hyaline or tinged with brown. 

 Paraphyses red, clavate at the ends. Asci cylindrical, hyaline. 

 Spores broadly oval, uniseriate, 1-3 oil globules, very often a 

 single large oil globule nearly filling the spore, 16-24 mic. long 

 and 10-12 mic. wide. 



Growing on rotten wood in the woods. Very common in 

 summer and fall. 



Coll. Freda M. Bachman, Nov. 3, 1907, June 20, 1908. G. 

 D. Smith, W. G. Stover, August 4, 1908. 



Lachnea scutcllata (Sow.) Gill. Les Disco, de Fr. 75. 1879. 

 Peziza scutellata Sow. Eng. Fung. 1 : pi. 24. 1797. 



Apothecia sessile or nearly so, 1-2 cm. broad, interior at 

 first dark red, later becoming brighter red, exterior at first pale, 

 later brownish because covered with dark, brown, pointed, sep- 

 tate straight hairs ; edge fringed with longer but similar hairs 

 which at first extend in toward the center but later stand erect 

 or outward. Hymenium reddish-orange in color, hypothecium 

 pale grayish, exciple still lighter in color. Paraphyses septate. 

 unbranched, numerous, enlarged at the apices, filled with orange 

 granules. Asci cylindrical. Spores uniseriate, oblong-elliptic, 

 granular, 18-22 mic. long and 8-12 mic. wide. 



Growing on old wood, also on soil. Very common till late 

 fall. 



Coll. Freda M. Bachman, April 25, 1907, July 19. 1907. 

 Bruce Fink, W. G. Stover, April 17, 1908. Freda M. Bachman. 

 August 4, 1908. 



