ASCOBOLUS. 29 1 



Cooke, "Fung. Brit./' ii. No. 189; Rehm, " Asco.," No. 1; 

 Rav., "Fung. Am.," 312, 632. 



On old cow-dung. Spring and autumn. 



Cups from J to | of a line broad. When young and 

 moist the cups are pale yellowish green ; when old the 

 disc is black, and the prominent margin dirty-white and 

 granulose. 



Name — Furfur, bran ; branny or scurfy 



Universally distributed. 



7. Ascobolus viridulus. Phil, and Plow. 



Scattered, sessile, hemispherical, concave, then ex- 

 panded, submarginate, thick, pale yellowish-green, 

 coarsely granulated ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 violet, becoming brown, rugose-striate, 13 X 6/x ; para- 

 physes rather stout, distinctly septate, clavate at the 

 apices, enveloped in a pale green mucus. 



Ascobolus viridulus — Phil, and Plow, in " Grevillea," 

 viii. p. 103. 



On rejectamenta of birds (pigeons ?). Spring. 



Cups J to f of a line broad. This has much the out- 

 ward character of A. furfuraceus in a young state, but 

 the sporidia are very much smaller. 



Name — Viridis, green ; slightly green. 



Haughmond Hill, near Shrewsbury ! 



8. Ascobolus atro-fuscus. Phil, and Plow. 



Sessile, crowded or scattered, blackish-brown, con- 

 cave, then plane; margin crenulate ; externally fur- 

 furaceous ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, 

 obtuse, hyaline, then purple, at length brown, epispore 

 granulated or verrucose, 22 x 13^u ; paraphyses linear, 

 occasionally branched. 



Ascobolus atro-fuscus — Phil, and Plow, in "Grevillea," 

 ii. p. 186, t. 24, i*. 1. Asc. viridis — Boud., "Ann. Sc. 

 Nat.," 1869, vol. x. t. 5, f. 4 ; Gill., "Champ.," p. 140. 

 Asc. carbonicola — Boud., "Soc. Bot. de Fr.," October, 1877. 



Exs.— Phil., " Elv. Brit.," No. 47. 



On a charcoal bed. July. 



