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 j^q 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- 

 diferons, cysts seated towards the apices; sporidia 64, 

 broadly fusiform, hyaline, smooth, 17 — 18 X 5/x; 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 J a line (041) wide and high. 



Name — After the Woolhope Field Club. 



Hereford (Mr. James Renny). 



7. Ryparobius subhirtus. (Renny.) 



Minute, sessi]e, 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, 



