414 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



lected in Britain, but is included, as the following variety is 

 British.] 



Var. camosissima. Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 104. 



Ascophores cylindrical, sessile, crowded, very fleshy, 

 rather cylindrical in form, apex truncate, almost immar- 

 ginate, orange-yellow, glabrous, about 1 mm. across, spores 

 16-20 X 6-7 fx; paraphyses only very slightly thickened at 

 the tip, otherwise as in the typical form. 



On decaying vegetable matter. 



Specimen in Elv. Brit., n. 158, examined. 



Cup ^ a line across. Much crowded ; disc barely de- 

 pressed, so that the cups can hardly be called cups except in 

 outline, being fleshy to the top. They have no erect, thin, 

 membranaceous margin, as the type has, nor are the apices 

 of the paraphyses clavate. The cells of the exterior of the 

 cup are moderate-sized — 20-30 /jl diam. (Phil.) 



Humaria granulata. Sacc, Syll., n. 503. 



Ascophore 1-3 mm. across, gregarious or scattered, sessile, 

 globose then almost or quite plane, rather fleshy and soft ; 

 disc deep orange or brick-red, externally paler and granulose 

 or wrinkled, otherwise glabrous; asci cylindrical, narrowed 

 at the base into a short, usually oblique pedicel, dehiscing 

 by a minute lid at the apex, w T hich remains attached on one 

 side, spores 8, obliquely uniseriate, elliptic-oblong, ends 

 obtuse, eguttulate, smooth, hyaline, size variable, 15-20 x 

 8-10 fx; paraphyses very stout, broadly clavate, 5-6 /x thick 

 at the apex, which is filled with red granules, septate, 

 especially towards the base. 



Ascobolus granulatus, Fckl., Symb. Myc, p. 285. 



Peziza granulata, Bulliard, Champ. Fr., p. 258, t. 433, f. 3 ; 

 Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 94; Cooke, Myc< gr., f. £9. 



On cow and horse dung. 



Developing during the autumn and winter ; often almost 

 covering the dung. Differs from Lachnea stercorca, Gill., in 

 the absence of the large marginal hairs; the latter also 

 develops at a different season of the year — spring and 

 summer. The present species shows very clearly the mode 

 of dehiscence of the asci by an apical lid, which remains 

 attached to the ascus on one side after the spores have 

 escaped, agreeing in this respect with many of the Ascoboleae. 



