310 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Yar. -y. saccharinus. (Berk, and Curr.) 



Cups f to 1 line broad. " Reddish pink or salmon- 

 colour, when dry paler towards the margin ; plant attached 

 at the base by white downy threads ; hymenium some- 

 what glistening, looking as if sprinkled with minute 

 particles of brown sugar " (Berk, and Curr.). 



Ascobolus saccharinus (Berk, and Curr.) Berk., 

 "OutL," p. 374; Cooke, "Jour. Bot.," 1864, f. 10; and 

 'Handbk," No. 2214; B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 No. 1091*, t. 17, f. 36. Ascophanus saccharinus Boud., 

 "Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1869, vol. x. t. 12, f. 40; and "Ascob.," 

 p. 61, c. i. 



On old leather, and also on rag. 



M. Boudier could discover no anatomical character by 

 which to distinguish this from A. carneus ; nor can I, 

 except that the sporidia are a little longer in proportion 

 to their width. 



Name Saccharum, sugar; resembling grains of sugar. 



Chislehurst, Kent, and Paul's Cray Common (Mr. F. 

 Currey). 



11. Ascophanus testaceus. (Moug.) 



Gregarious, waxy, sessile, unequal, smooth, depressed, 

 convex, brick-red ; asci broadly clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, epispore granular, 18 20 X 9 11/u; paraphyses 

 stout, septate, simple, often clavate at the apices, filled 

 with granular protoplasm. (Plate IX. fig. 58.) 



Peziza testacea, Moug. Fries, "Elench.," ii. p. 11. 

 Helotium testaceum Berk., " OutL," p. 372 ; and " Ann. 

 Nat. Hist.," No. 576. Ascobolus testaceus Berk., "Ann. 

 Nat. Hist.," No. 1082*, t. 14, f. 5; Cooke, "Handbk.," 

 No. 2216. Ascobolus diformis Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 85, 

 Ascophanus difformis Boud., " Ascob.," p. 62. 



Exs. Rav.'No. 2139. 



On old sacking and rabbit-dung. Rather common. 



Cups about 1 line broad. 



Name Testa, a brick ; brick-colour. 



King's Cliffe (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Bathford (Mr. 



