SACCOBOLUS. 295 



"Not. Ascob. Belg.," 1862, p. 14; Kickx., "Crypt. Flan.," 

 i. p. 478. Saccobolus Kervcrni — Boud., " Ascob.," p. 39, 

 t. 8, f. 18. 



Exs.— Fckl., exs. N< 1836; Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," 

 ed. ii. 399. 



On old cow-dung. October. 



Cups 400 to 6OO/1 broad. 



Name — After Capt. D. Kervern. 



Bathford I (Mr. C. E. Broome). Forden, Montgomery- 

 shire. 



2. Saccobolus obscurws. (Cooke.) 



Subgregarious, sometimes densely crowded, fuliginous 

 or dark brown ; hymenium convex, rather paler ; asci 

 clavate ; sporidia elliptic, rough, becoming violet, then 

 brown, 12 — 14 X 7/u, enclosed in a common hyaline 

 membrane ; paraphyses filiform, simple. 



Ascobolus (Saccobolus) obscurus — Cooke in " Gre- 

 villea," iv. p. 112. 



On old sacking. 



Cups 200 to 900/x broad. 



Name — Obscurus, of a dark colour. 



Forden, Montgomeryshire ! (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



3. Saccobohvs neglectus. Boud. 



Very minute, at first globose, glabrous, scarcely 

 shining, white or becoming cinereous, or finally cinereus- 

 purple, paler at the base ; hymenium often fulvous, at 

 certain times, therefore, covered with the exserted asci 

 and appearing black ; asci minute, broad, attenuated at 

 the base, hyaline, operculum plane ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 sub -acuminate, smooth, roseate, passing into cinereous- 

 violet and black, 15 — 19 X 6 — 8/x, enclosed in a common 

 hyaline membrane ; paraphyses simple or branched, 

 scarcely thickened at the apices, hyaline, septate, in- 

 volved in a scarcely visible gelatine. 



Saccobolus neglectus — Boud., "Ascob.," p. 41, t. 9, 

 f. 20; Phil, and Plow., " Grevillea," 10, p. 69; Gill., 

 "Champ.," p. 141. 



