ASCOBOLUS 289 



p. 374 ; Cooke, "Jour. Bot," 1864, f. 4 ; B. and Br, "Ann. 

 Nat. Hist./' 1085*, t. 16, f. 27; Crouan, "Flo. Finn.," p. 

 57; Nyl., "Fez. Fenn," p. 83; Karat., "Myco. Fenn.," 

 p. 78; Boud., "Ascob," p. 33. t. 7, f. 13-15; Fckl, 

 "Symb. Myco.," p. 287; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 2203; 

 Gill., " Champ.," p. 145. Ascobolus albidus Crouan, 

 "Ann. Sc. Nat." (1858), t. 13, f. 1-6; " Flo. Fin," p. 57. 



Exs. Karst, " Fung. Fenn," 542. 



On cow-dung, horse-dung, and rabbit-dun. Autumn. 



Cups about J to ^ a line broad ; they are decidedly 

 pyriform when removed from the matrix. The convex 

 disc is covered with black papillae, which are the summits 

 of the asci, containing the dark sporidia. 



Monsieur Boudier has three forms, distinguished by 

 their colour 



1. Altogether white or whitish (Asc. albidus Crouan, 



I. <?.). 



2. Pale fulvous ; disc darker (Asc. glaber Pers.). 



3. Fulvous ; disc purple-brown. 

 Name Glaber, smooth. 



Northamptonshire (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Batheaston 

 (Mr. C. E. Broome). Shelly Oak, near Birmingham ! (Mr. 

 W. B. Grove). Ford, near Shrewsbury ! 



B. EXTERIOR FURFURACEOUS OR GRANULATED. 



5. Ascobolus viridis. Curr. 



Sessile, plane or very slightly concave, of a dark, 

 dingy, yellowish-green colour ; externally very fur- 

 furaceous, almost tomentose ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, acuminate, rugose-striate, amethyst-purple. 

 32 X 13jti ; paraphyses rather stout, generally clavate 

 or subfusiform at. the summits, enveloped in a pale 

 p-reenish mucus. (Plate IX. fig. 54.) 



Ascobolus viridis Curr. in " Linn. Trans," xxiv. 

 p. 154,1863; Cooke, "Jour. Bot," 1864; Boud, "Ann. 

 Sc. Nat," 1869, vol. x. t. 5, f. 4 ; B. and Br, " Ann. Nat. 

 Hist," No. 1081; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 2197; Gill, 

 " Champ," p. 140. 



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