BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
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Mollisia vulgaris ( Fr 
Sessile, crowded, sub-caespitose, concave, membranaceous; white, 
yellowish-white, or pallid, glabrous ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, 
cylindraceo-oblong, sometimes curved, 5-7 x 1, 5 /x ; para- 
physes slender. 
Peziza vulgaris , Fries (in part), Sys. Myc., ii. p. 146; Karsten 
Pez. et Ascob. p. 39 ; Nyl. Pez. Fen. p. 59 ; H dotium albellum 
(with) Karst. Myco. Fenn. 116; Rev. Asco. Acta Sc. F. F. 
Fenn. 11, n. 6 ; Pezizella Avellanae (Lasch.), Fckl. Symb. Myco. 
299 ; Mollisia vulgaris , Gillet Champ, p. 119. 
Exs. Peziza vulgaris , Desm. Crypt. Fr. ed. i., 1065 ; ed. ii., 465. 
Peziza avellanae , Lasch., Rabh. Fung. Eur. 28 ; Fckl. F. Rh. 
2079 ; Helotium albellum, , Rehm’s Asco., 63. 
On dead branches of Corylus Avellana. 
The cups are J to ^ a line broad, usually caespitose, rarely sub- 
stipitate, bursting through the bark in little tufts ; very thin and 
membranaceous ; margin bent upwards, even. The colour is 
whitish, the surface smooth. The tissue of the cup is composed of 
connate slender filaments. I have not been able to detect sporidia 
in the British specimens. The dimensions given above are from 
Dr. Nylander. 
Shere. Dr. E.Capron! Carlisle! Dr. Carlyle. 
Lachnea mirabilis (Bor.). 
Growing singly, or several from the same base. Cup fleshy, 
explanato infundibuliform, rather fragile, externally whitish-tomen- 
tose, as is the rooting stem, which is enlarged upwards ; margin 
elegantly crenato-incised, apices of the crenatures rounded, reflexed, 
somewhat revolute ; disc umbilicate, beautifully bright crimson ; 
asci cylindrical ; sporidia elliptic 3-5 guttulate, 33-35 x 13-17 /u ; 
paraphyses linear, septate, coloured with scarlet granules. 
Peziza mirabilis , Borszczow, in Fungi Ingrici p. 61, t. iv. and 
v. Cooke Mycogr. fig. 98. 
In shady woods, amongst pine leaves. May. 
The height of the British specimens of this beautiful species is 
about lj inches, and the stem is clothed with slender white hairs. 
Growing in clusters of two to six among grass on the banks of 
the Dee near Ballater, N.B. ! April. Professor James W. H. 
Trail. 
Lachnea confusa (Cooke). 
Gregarious, sessile, subspherical, at length hemispherico-de- 
pressed, or convex, externally brown, clothed with short, fasciculate, 
brown, septate hairs ; hymenium the same colour ; asci cylindraceo- 
clavate; sporidia 4-8, globose, uniguttulate, smooth, 13 /x; para- 
physes filiform, slightly enlarged at the summit, filled with red 
granules. 
Peziza confusa , Cooke in Bull. Buff. Ac. Sci , 1875, 291 ; Myco. 
Fig. 124. Peziza brunnea , Nyl. Obs. p. 21 ; Karst. Myc. Fenn. 
p. 75; Grevillea iii., fig. 98a. 
Exs. Karst. Fung. Fenn. 528. 
