RACCOBULUS. 297 



Name Depaupero, to impoverish. 

 Spye Park, Bathford, Hanham, etc. (Mr. C. E. 

 Broome). 



B. EXTERIOR PUBESCENT. 



6. Saccobolus ccesariatus. Renny. 



Minute, hemispherical, white, clothed with colourless, 

 septate, slender, flexuous hairs ; hymenium convex, papil- 

 late from the exserted asci ; asci broadly clavate ; sporidia 

 elliptic, purple, smooth, enclosed in a common hyaline 

 sac ; paraphyses filiform, rather stout, simple, or branched. 



Saccobolus ccesariatus Kenny in litt. 



This is an exceedingly beautiful species, very minute, 

 but, unfortunately, no dimensions are given, nor yet the 

 habitat. It resembles a pure white, sessile Lachnella. 



Name Ccesariatus, covered with hairs. 



SECTION B. SPORIDIA HYALINE. 

 GENUS IV.- -THECOTHEUS. Boud in " Ascob." 



Receptacle waxy, sessile; hymenium erumpent, im- 

 marginate, opaque, subpruinose, at first plane, then con- 

 vex, rough with crystalline points, which are the much 

 exserted asci ; paraphyses longer, very slender, numerous, 

 involved in gelatine ; asci large, elongated, but broad, 

 polysporus in the species noted, sub-umbonate at the apex, 

 when mature exserted about half their length; sporidia 

 hyaline, with a conspicuous central nucleus, free, larger 

 epispore smooth, the young ones very commonly sur- 

 rounded singly by mucilage (Boudier, I. c.). (Plate IX. 

 fig. 56.) 



Name 0>'/Kj, thecus, wOtw, I push ; from the project- 

 ing asci. 



One species only. 



1. Thecotheus Pelletieri. (Crouan.) 



Scattered or crowded, at first conical, then cylindrical, 

 at length rotund-applanate, grey or cinereous-lilac; 



