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BRITISH DI8COMYCETE6. 
On burnt soil. October. 
Cups 2-6 mm. broad, partly immersed in the soil, having 
numerous brown, septate, entangled hairs at the base, the upper 
exposed surface and the margin clothed with short, stout, brown, 
fasciculate hairs, from 30 to 70 p long, and 3-7 /x thick, tapering 
towards the summit. The cells of the pseudo-parenchyma are 
about 10 to 15 in diameter, but vary above this size in some 
individuals. It is very near Peziza schizospora y the chief difference 
being the hairy surface of the cup. 
I am indebted to Mr. W. Stewart, of Glasgow, for specimens of 
this interesting addition to our flora. 
Epping Forest. Mr. W. Stewart. 
Lachnella virginea ( Batsch ). 
0. selecta, Karst. 
Differs from the type in the larger cups (| a line), the somewhat 
thicker, longer (i line to 1^ lines), and more flexuous, stem ; 
sporidia 4-11 x 1-2 /x, paraphyses 4 m thick. 
Peziza selecta, Karst. Monogr. Pez. p. 192 ; Lachnum selectum, 
Karst. Myco. Fenn. p. 170. 
On back and cones of Pinus and Abies. July to October. 
Hampton-in-Arden ! Mr. W. B. Grove. 1884. 
Lachnella grisella (RehmJ. 
Cups scattered shortly stipitate, turbinate, greyish, inclining to 
brown, clothed with pale brownish, or sub-hyaline, flexuous, simple 
hairs; tissue prosenchymatous ; asci clavate, sub -acute at the 
apex, sometimes curved ; sporidia 8, oblong-clavate, straight, or a 
little bent, biseriate, 7-9 x 2-2, 5 paraphyses filiform, slender, 
hyaline. 
Helotium grisellum, Rehm., Hedwigia, 1885. 
Exs. Rehm’s Asco. No. 766. 
On dead fronds of Pteris aquilina. August. 
Dr. Rehm justly remarks that this is a very difficult species to 
detect, nestling on the underside of the leaf amongst the hairs. 
The cups are about 400 /x broad and 300 /x high, snbstipitate or 
sessile, margin fringed with simple, colourless hairs 25 /x long 2 /x 
broad ; the asci are 35 x 5 /x. This is near Lachnella aspidiicola 
(B. & Br.), but has a shorter stipes, is a darker colour, and has 
larger sporidia. 
The Isle of Orkney ! Professor J. W. H. Trail. 1888. 
Lachnella callimorpha ( KarstJ . 
Gregarious, sessile, or shortly stipitate, tomentose ; cups some- 
what plane, when dry sphaerical, or hemispherical, contracted ; 
hymenium yellow, or orange yellow ; asci cylindrical-subclavate ; 
sporidia 8, biseriate, linear fusiform, with 6-8 guttule, or 
spuriously pluriseptate, straight, 17-20 x 1, 5-2 /x ; paraphyses 
acerose. 
Lachnea callimorpha , Karst. Symb. p. 250 ; Lachnum calli- 
morpha , Karst. Myco. Fenn. p. 173. 
