290 BPJTISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Exs.— Phil., "Elv. Brit./' 196. 

 On damp clay ground in woods. Autumn- 

 Cups 2 to 3 lines broad. 

 Name — Viridis, green. 

 Hanham, near Bristol (Mr. C. E. Broome). Leigh 



Woods, Clifton (Mr. C. E. Broome). Poynton Springs, 



Salop ! 



6. Ascobolus furfuraceus. Pers. 



Sessile, globose, then expanded ; externally greenish- 

 yellow, furfuraceous ; hymenium slightly concave, then 

 plane, at length convex, same colour, when old growing 

 blackish-brown ; margin furfuraceous, denticulate, or 

 submembranaceous, friable ; asci broadly clavate ; sporidia 

 8, elliptic, epispore rugose-striate, rugae anastomosing, 

 purple, growing brown, 20 — 22 X 10/x ; paraphyses fili- 

 form, septate, enveloped in sulphur-yellow gelatine. 



Ascobolus furfuraceus — Pers., " Tent. Dkp. Meth," 

 p. 25 ; " Obs," i. p. 33, t. 4, f. 3-6 ; " Syn. Fung," 

 p. 676; "Myco. Eur," i. p. 340; A. and S, p. 348; 

 Schum, "Saell," ii. p. 436; Eebent, p. 388; Bernhard, 

 " Manip," iv. t. 9, f. 5 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 163 ; 

 Grev, " Sc. Crypt. Flo," vi. p. 307 ; Cheval, " Flo. En. 

 Par./'i. p. 303; Merat, " Flo. En. Par," i. 254; Kromb, 

 t. v. f. 45, 48 ; Schw., " Syn," p. 178 ; Wallr, " Crvpt, 

 Flo,"f. 515; Coemans, " Not. Ascob. Belg," 1862, p. 13; 

 " Eng. Flo," v. p. 209 ; Berk, " Outl," p. 374 ; De Not, 

 " Disc," p. 6 ; Curr, " Linn. Trans," xxiv, t. xxv, f. 9 ; 

 Cooke, "Jour. Bot," May, 1864, f. 1; Kickx, "Flo. 

 Crypt, Flan," i. p. 479; Crouan, "Flo. Finn," p. 57; 

 Nyl, " Pez. Fenn," p. 82 ; Karst, " Myco. Fenn," p. 76 ; 

 Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2200 ; Fckl, " Symb. Myco," 

 p. 286 ; Gill, " Champ," p. 144, c. i. Peziza stercoraria 

 —Bull, t. 376, 538, f. 4 ; Sow, t. 18, 389, f. 3-6. P. 

 fusca — Bolt, t. 109, f. 2. 



Exs.— Rav, exs. vi. No. 81; Fckl, " F. Bh," No. 

 1132; Desm, "Crypt. Fr," ed. i. No. 1315, ed. ii. No. 

 715; Karst, "Fung. Fenn," 170; Phil, "Elv. Brit," 46; 



