296 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



On rabbit-dung. Spring. 



Cups 200 to 500 JJL broad, convex, when dry brown. 

 Name Neglectus, neglected. 



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

 near Bristol ! (Mr. C. Bucknall). 



4. Saccobolus violasceus. Boud. 



Scattered or crowded, minute, sessile, glabrous, 

 shining, hemispherical, then more or less expanded, 

 violet or cinereous-violet ; hymenium scarcely paler, con- 

 vex, rarely undulated ; asci broad, attenuated at the 

 base ; operculum plane ; sporidia 8, elliptic, sub-acute, 

 often navicular, at first hyaline, then rosy, at length 

 approaching a blue-violet or violet-black, smooth, 15 X 9^u, 

 enclosed in a common hyaline membrane ; paraphyses 

 septate, apices pyriform, becoming violet-colour. (Plate 

 IX. fig. 55.) 



Saccobolus violasceus Boud., "Ascob," p. 41, t. 8, 

 f. 19. Ascobolus violasceus Phil, and Plow., " Grevillea/' 

 iii. p. 126; Gill, " Champ," p. 141, c. i. 



Exs. Phil, " Elv. Brit," No. 48. 



On cow-dung. Autumn. 



Cups J to 1 line broad, subgelatinous. 



Name Violasceus, of a violet-colour. 



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



5. Saccobolus depauperatus. (B. and Br.) 



Cups minute, plane, pallid, then vinous ; asci short, 

 broad, oblong, base abruptly narrowed to a short stem ; 

 sporidia 8, obtusely fusiform, lurid violet, even, 

 10 12 X 6'5/i ; enclosed in a common hyaline sac ; para- 

 physes filiform, septate, slightly incrassated at the summit. 



Ascobolus depauperatus B. and Br, " Ann. Nat. 

 Hist," No. 1084, t. 14, f. 6 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2207. 



On dung of sheep, horse, and deer. 



" Cups minute, not exceeding r ^ - of an inch in 

 diameter, yellowish when young, becoming vinous, but 

 sometimes when old losing their purplish tint " (B. 

 and Br.). 



