288 BRITISH D1SC0MYCETES. 



Cups about £ to J a line broad ; flesh olive ; disc 

 becomes black when dry. 



Name — jErugo, verdigris ; from the colour. 



3. Ascobolus vinosus. Berk. 



Sessile, at first globose, then depressed, smooth, dull 

 purple ; margin laciniate ; hymeniuru plane or convex, 

 livid-purple ; asci broadly clavate ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 rugose, rugae anastomosing, at first colourless, then 

 purple, at length brown, 23 X 13/*; paraphyses filiform, 

 septate, scarcely coloured, enveloped in livid gelatine. 



Ascobolus vinosus — Berk., "Eng. Flo./' v. p. 209; 

 "Outl.," p. 374; Cooke, "Jour. Bot.," 1864; B. and Br., 

 " Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1083,* t. 16, f. 25 ; Boud., " Ascob.," 

 p. 31, t. 6, f. xi. ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2201 ; Gill., 

 " Champ.," p. 145. 



Exs.— Berk., No. 159; FckL, " F. Bh," 1852; Phil., 

 " Elv. Brit.," No. 95. 



On rabbit-dung in woods. Autumn. 



Cups about J to 1 line broad. The pseudo-parenchyma 

 consists of dark purple-brown cells. 



Name — Vinum, wine ; colour of wine. 



Common and generally distributed. 



Haughmond Hill, and Attingham, near Shrewsbury ! 

 Ercall Hill, Salop ! 



4. Ascobolus glaber. Pers. 



Sessile, minute, crowded, rarely scattered, glabrous, 

 shining, subgelatinous, oblong-globose, then pyriform ; 

 base immersed, appearing hemispherical, plane or convex, 

 varying in colour from white or orange to vinous- 

 brown ; asci broadly cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, clear violet, rugose, rugre anastomosing, 25 X 13//; 

 paraphyses filiform. 



Ascobolus glaber — Pers., "Obs.," i. p. 34, t. 4, f. 7; 

 " Syn. Fung.," p. 667 ; " Myco. Eur.," i. p. 340 ; Bivona, 

 " Man.," iv. p. 27, t. vi. f. 4 ; A. and S., p. 348 : Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco.," ii. p. 164; Cheval., "Flo. Par.," i. p. 383; Merat., 

 " Flo. Par.," i. p. 254 ; Berk., " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 209 ; " Outl.," 



