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Name — Depavpero, to impoverish. 

 Spye Park, Bathford, Hanham, etc. (Mr. C. E. 

 Broome). 



B. EXTERIOR PUBESCENT. 



6. Saccobolus ccesariatus. Renny. 



Minute, hemispherical, white, clothed with colourless, 

 septate, slender, flexuous hairs ; hymenium convex, papil- 

 late from the exserted asci ; asci broadly clavate ; sporidia 

 elliptic, purple, smooth, enclosed in a common hyaline 

 sac ; paraphyses filiform, rather stout, simple, or branched. 



Saccobolus ccesariatus — Renny in litt. 



This is an exceedingly beautiful species, very minute, 

 but, unfortunately, no dimensions are given, nor yet the 

 habitat. It resembles a pure white, sessile Lachnella. 



Name — Ccesariatus, covered with hairs. 



Section B. — Sforidia hyaline. 

 Genus IV. — Thecotheus. Boud in " Ascob." 



Receptacle waxy, sessile; hymenium erumpent, im- 

 marginate, opaque, subpruinose, at first plane, then con- 

 vex, rough with crystalline points, which are the much 

 exserted asci ; paraphyses longer, very slender, numerous, 

 involved in gelatine ; asci large, elongated, but broad, 

 polysporus in the species noted, sub-umbonate at the apex, 

 when mature exserted about half their length; sporidia 

 hyaline, with a conspicuous central nucleus, free, larger 

 epispore smooth, the young ones very . commonly sur- 

 rounded singly by mucilage (Boudier, I. c). (Plate IX. 

 fig. 56.) 



Name — Otjicr), thecus, iLOii*), I push ; from the project- 

 ing asci. 



One species only. 



1. Thecotheus Pelletieri. (Cronan.) 



Scattered or crowded, at first conical, then cylindrical, 

 at length rotund-applanate, grey or cinereous-lilac ; 



