182 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Name Ater, black. 



Shrewsbury ! Hereford ! Trefriw, North Wales ! 



Form Aspa/ragi. (Winter.) 



Scattered or crowded, globose or hemispherical, nigri- 

 cant, scabrous ; margin whitish, connivent ; asci cylin- 

 draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-fusiform ; 8 10 X 1/z; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza atrata, form Asparagi Winter in Rabh., 

 "Fung. Eur.,"No. 1908. 



Exs. Rabh., " Fung. Eur.," I. c. 



On dead stems of asparagus. Autumn. 



Name Asparagus, the w r ell-known herb. 



King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



Form (Enantlies. Phil. 



Gregarious, at first globose, then hemispherical, gla- 

 brous, even, cinereous or nigricant ; margin paler ; asci 

 fusiform or clavate-fusiform ; sporidia oblong-fusiform, 

 8 X \fj. ; paraphyses scarce. 



Peziza atrata, form (Enanthes, in " Elv. Brit." 



Exs. Phil., "Elv. Brit.," No. 179. 



On^dead stems of (Enanthe crocata. Autumn 



Cup about '3 mm. broad. 



Name (Enanthe, a genus of Umbelliferce. 



Shelton Rough, near Shrewsbury ! 



Form ulmarice. (Lasch.) 



Gregarious, minute, at first globose, nigricant, per- 

 pendicularly rugose, afterwards expanded, brownish- 

 black ; margin whitish, connivent ; hymenium concave, 

 cinereous ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, cylin- 

 draceo-fusiform, 5 8 X 15^; paraphyses filiform, scarce. 



Peziza ulmarice Lasch in Klotzsch, " H. M.," 1723 ; 

 "Flora," 1853, p. 201 ; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2109. 



Exs. Lasch in Klotzsch, "H. M.," 1723; Cooke, 

 " Fung. Brit.," 399 ; Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 74. 



On dead stems of Spircea ulmaria, in damp places. 

 Autumn. 



