290 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Exs. Phil, "Elv. Brit," 196. 



On damp clay ground in woods. Autumn. 



Cups 2 to 3 lines broad. 



Name Viridis, green. 



Hanham, near Bristol (Mr. C. E. Broom e). Leigh 

 Woods, Clifton (Mr. C. E. Broome). Poynton Springs, 

 Salop ! 



6. Ascobolus furfuraceus. Pers. 



Sessile, globose, then expanded ; externally greenish- 

 yellow, furfuraceous ; hymenium slightly concave, then 

 plane, at length convex, same colour, when old growing 

 blackish-brown ; margin furfuraceous, denticulate, or 

 submembranaceous, friable ; asci broadly clavate ; sporidia 

 8, elliptic, epispore rugose-striate, rugse anastomosing, 

 purple, growing brown, 20 22 X lO^t ; paraphyses fili- 

 form, septate, enveloped in sulphur-yellow gelatine. 



Ascobolus furfuraceus Pers, " Tent. Disp. Meth," 

 p. 25 ; " Obs," i. p. 33, t. 4, f. 3-6 ; " Syn. Fung," 

 p. 676; "Myco. Eur," i. p. 340; A. and S, p. 348; 

 Schum, "Saell," ii. p. 436; Rebent, p. 388; Bernhard, 

 " Manip," iv. t. 9, f. 5 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 163 ; 

 Grev, " Sc. Crypt. Flo," vi. p. 307 ; Cheval, " Flo. En. 

 Par,"i. p. 303; Herat., " Flo. En. Par," i. 254; Kromb, 

 t. v. f. 45, 48 ; Schw, " Syn," p. 178 ; Wallr, " Crypt. 

 Flo," f. 515 ; Coemans, "Not. Ascob. Belg," 1862, p. 13; 



" Eng. Flo," v. p. 209 ; Berk, " Outl," p. 374 ; De Not, 



" Disc," p. 6 ; Curr, " Linn. Trans," xxiv, t. xxv, f. 9 ; 



Cooke, "Jour. Bot," May, 1864, f. 1; Kickx, "Flo. 



Crypt. Flan," i. p. 479 ; Crouan, " Flo. Finn," p. 57 ; 



Nyl, " Pez. Fenn," p. 82 ; Karst, Myco. Fenn," p. 76 ; 



Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2200 ; Fckl, " Symb. Myco," 



p. 286; Gill, "Champ," p. 144, c. i. Peziza, stercoraria 

 -Bull, t. 376, 538, f. 4 ; Sow, t. 18, 389, f. 3-6. P. 



fusca Bolt, t. 109, f. 2. 



Exs. Rav, exs. vi. No. 81 ; Fckl, " F. Eh.," No. 



1132; Desm, "Crypt. Fr," ed. i. No. 1315, ed. ii. No. 



715; Karst., "Fung. Fenn," 170; Phil, "Elv. Brit," 46; 



