312 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Hanham, near Bristol (Mr. C. E. Broome). Hereford- 

 shire ! (Mr. Benny). Church Stretton, Salop ! 



14. Ascophanus consociatus. (B. and Br.) 



Cups gregarious, subhemispherical ; externally rugose, 

 granulated, pallid-yellow or whitish; asci broadly cla- 

 vate, short; sporidia 8, biseriate, broadly fusiform, 

 granular within, 10 X Q/ul; paraphyses filiform. 



Ascobolus consociatus — B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 No. 1491, t. 2, f. 7; "Grevillea," iii. p. 123. 



On the remains of Sphceria cupulifera, on wood. 



Cups 100 to 150/x broad. The sporidia are very 

 faintly tinted with yellow, and coarsely granular within. 



Name — Consocio, to associate ; gregarious. 



Langridge (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



15. Ascophanus pilosus. (Fries.) 

 Minute, sessile, yellow, testaceous-yellow or tawny- 

 orange ; externally pilose, with long pallid or yellowish, 

 nonseptate hairs, incrassated near the base ; hymenium 

 papillate, margin naked ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, hyaline, 

 oblong-elliptic, smooth, 20 X 10^i ; paraphyses slender, 

 septate, simple or branched, hyaline, but filled with 

 orange-yellow granules. 



Ascobolus pilosus — Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 164; 

 " Summa Yeg. Scan.," p. 358 ; Crouan, " Flo. Fin.," p. 55 ; 

 Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 86 ; Cooke, " Grevillea," iv. p. 112. 

 Peziza equina, Muell, var. pilosa — Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," 

 p. 73. Ascophanus pilosus — Boud., " Ascob.," p. 64, t. xii., 

 42-44 ; Pat., p. 211, f. 487. 

 On o-rouse-duna-. 



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Cups 100/ul broad. Referred to A. pilosus as a variety, 

 but the specimens were more minute than usual, scarcely 

 visible to the naked eye (M. C. Cooke). 



Name — Pilosus, hairy. 



Rannock, N.B. (Dr. Buchanan White). 



Var. ciliatus. (B. and Br.) 

 Sessile, subhemispherical, smooth, orange ; hymenium 

 plane; margin swollen, white, not ciliated; furnished 



