The Scottish Naturalist. Sy 



Gregarious, erutnpent, turbinate, becoming patellate, 

 blackish-brown ; disc (%-i u.), marginate, depressed, 

 then plane or convex, externally naked, opaque or some- 

 what shining. Asci clavate-cylindrical ; sporidia narrowly 

 elliptical, curved, binucleate, pale amber colour ('015 x 

 •005 u.) The sporidia are probably at length uniseptate. 

 On hazel branches. 

 East. — — — — Moray — 



West. _____ 



Forres. Rev. Dr. Keith. 

 North Wales. 



2290. Ascobolus (Ascophanus) subfuscus Boud. Ann. Sc. 



A at. Vol. X., p. 242. 



Crowded, rarely scattered, very minute, externally 

 brown, paler downwards, disc pale brown, darker when 

 dry ; asci 8 spored. 



Receptacle hemispherical, externally glabrous, brown, 

 fainter at the base ; margin irregular, inflexed, be- 

 coming dark brown when dry ; disc plane, pale or 

 pale-tawny, papillate with the asci. Paraphyses of the 

 length of the asci, simple or divided at the base, pyri- 

 form at the apex, hyaline, but in darker coloured speci- 

 mens brownish. Asci short, hyaline, large, attenuated 

 towards the base. Sporidia oblong-ovate, subfusiform, 

 hyaline, rather small. 



On cat's dung. April. 



East. — — — — Moray — 



West. — — — — 



Forres. Rev. Dr. Keith. 

 Europe. 



2291. Ombrophila brunnea Phill. Grwillea, Vol. VIII. p. 



103. 



Crowded, sessile, or sub-stipitate, concave, than ex~ 

 panded, becoming flexuous, yellowish-brown, glabrous 

 disc darker than margin ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 ovate oblong, rough bi- or multi-nucleate, , oi6- , 02 x 

 •oo5-*oo8 u. ; paraphyses enlarged at the summits, 

 adhering. 



On damp garden prunings. July- 



East. — — — — Moray. — 



West. — — — — 



Greeshop. Rev. Dr. Keith. 



2292. Ascomyces deformans Berk. C. Hbk. No. 2233. 



On peach leaves. May. 



East. — — — — Moray — 



West. — — — — 



