302 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



smaller, much-flattened cells ; margin ciliated with a 

 single row of short irregular hairs ; hymenium papillate ; 

 asci very broad, tapering below, with an umbonate 

 operculum ; sporidia 64 to 96, oblong-fusiform, obtuse at 

 the ends, hyaline, smooth ; paraphyses not seen. 



Ascozonus Leveilleanus Renny in " Trans. Woolhope 

 Club," 1873, p. 130, f. 1-5. A. Leveillei Renny, "Jour. 

 Bot.," 1874, p. 356, t. 154, f. 1-5. 



On rabbit-dung. Winter. 



Cups ^Q to yi^o of an inch wide (Renny). 



Name After J. H. Leveille. 



Hereford (Mr. J. Renny). 



B. EXTERIOR HAIRY. 



6. Ryparobius Woolhopensis. Renny. 



Minute, scattered, at first pure white, then dingy; 

 cups with a thick stem-like base, which is tuberculate, 

 covered with close-set hairs, which fringe the margin, at 

 length expanding, the hairs disappearing with age ; sub- 

 stance of base vesicular; asci broadly clavate, spori- 

 diferous, cysts seated towards the apices ; sporidia 64, 

 broadly fusiform, hyaline, smooth, 17- -18 X 5^; para 

 physes filiform, stout, simple. 



Ryparobius Woolhopensis (Renny) B. and Br. in 

 "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1395; Grevillea," ii. p. 163. 

 Ascozonus Woolhopensis Renny, "Trans. Woolhope 

 Club," 1873, p. 130; and "Jour. Bot.," 1874, p. 356, t. 153. 



On bird-dung, mixed with filaments of Mucor, and 

 mostly borne by them. 



Cups \ a line ('041) wide and high. 



Name After the Woolhope Field Club. 



Hereford (Mr. James Renny). 



7. Ryparobius subhirtus. (Renny.) 



Minute, sessile, hemispherical, pure white, nearly 

 transparent, dotted with short unequal hairs, which are 

 mostly connate in pairs or threes ; margin ciliated ; hyme- 

 nium flat, coarsely papillate ; asci very wide, oblong, 



