292 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Cups 1 to 3 lines broad. The verrucose epispore 

 distinguishes this from its congeners. 

 Name Ater, black, fuscus, brown. 

 Wrekin, Shropshire ! 



9. Ascobolus crenulatus. Karst. 

 Gregarious, sessile, at first globose, then flattened, 



nearly plane, greenish-yellow, furfuraceous ; margin 

 crenulate ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, elliptic, striate, vio- 

 late, becoming brownish, 12 16 X 6 8p ; paraphyses 

 slender. 



Ascobolus crenulatus Karst., " Fung. Fenn.," exs. 

 763; "Fez. et Ascob.," p. 202; " Myco. Fenn.," p. 77; 

 " Grevillea," iv. p. 112. 



Exs. Karst., " Fung. Fenn.," No. 763. 



On grouse-dung. 



' Cups about J to f of a line broad ; disc of the 

 Rannoch specimens vinous when old, retaining the 

 greenish colour at the base of the cups " (M. C. Cooke). 



Name Crena, a notch ; slightly crenate. 



Rannoch, N.B. (Dr. Buchanan White). 



C. EXTERIOR PILOSE. 



10. Ascobolus brunneus. Cooke. 



Cups sessile, minute, globose, then depressed, sessile ; 

 externally pilose, pale ochre ; asci broadly clavate, short ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, at first hyaline and granular, at length 

 brown, 25 35 x 15^t ; paraphyses filiform. 



Ascobolus brunneus Cooke in "Fung. Brit.," 1867; 

 "Hedw.," vi. p. 154; " Handbk.," No. 2205; not Asc. 

 brunneus Boud., "Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1869. 



Exs. Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," 286. 



On cow-dung. 



Name Brunneus, deep brown. 



Shere, Surrey (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



11. Ascobolus immersus. Pers. 



Immersed or slightly erumpent, very minute, sub- 

 cylindrical or pyriform, clear yellowish-green; coated 



