182 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Name — Ater, black. 



Shrewsbury ! Hereford ! Trefriw, North Wales ! 



Form Asparagi. (Winter.) 



Scattered or crowded, globose or hemispherical, nigri- 

 cant, scabrous ; margin whitish, connivent ; asci cylin- 

 draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-fusiform ; 8 — 10 X 1/u; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza atrata, form Asparagi — Winter in Rabh., 

 "Fung. Eur.," No. 1908. 



Exs.— Rabh., " Fung. Eur.," I. c. 



On dead stems of asparagus. Autumn. 



Name — Asparagus, the well-known herb. 



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



Form (Enanthes. Phil. 



Gregarious, at first globose, then hemispherical, gla- 

 brous, even, cinereous or nigricant ; margin paler ; asci 

 fusiform or clavate-fusiform ; sporidia oblong-fusiform, 

 8x1/*; paraphyses scarce. 



Peziza atrata, form (Enanthes, in " Elv. Brit." 



Exs.— Phil., "Elv. Brit.," No. 179. 



On^dead stems of (Enanthe crocata. Autumn 



Cup about *3 mm. broad. 



Name — (Enanthe, a genus of TJmbelliferai. 



Shelton Rough, near Shrewsbury ! 



Form ulmariw. (Lasch.) 



Gregarious, minute, at first globose, nigricant, per- 

 pendicularly rugose, afterwards expanded, brownish - 

 black ; margin whitish, connivent ; hymenium concave, 

 cinereous ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, cylin- 

 draceo-fusiform, 5 — 8 X 15/x; paraphyses filiform, scarce. 



Peziza ulmarice — Lasch in Klotzsch, " H. M.," 1723 ; 

 "Flora," 1853, p. 201 ; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 2109. 



Exs.— Lasch in Klotzsch, "H. M.," 1723; Cooke, 

 " Fung. Brit.," 399 ; Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 74. 



On dead stems of Spirata ulmaria, in damp places. 

 Autumn. 



