726 ELVELLACEl. 



regularly rugose, ovate, or elliptic. — Fr. S.^f.\\. p. 1G4. Cooke 

 Seem. J. Bat. Jfat/, 18G4, Ji'j. 2. FckL exs. no. 1849. B. ^' Br. 

 Ann. N.II. no. 1083, 1. 16, /. 24. Bond. Ann. Sc. Nat. (18G9), x. 

 t. b,f. 3. 



On old fir poles. On the ground attached to little roots, &c. 

 Oct. Marlborough Forest. 



Sporidia violet coloured when mature, irregularly rugose, ovate or elliptic 

 (0007-0008 in.) •0177-'02 m.m. long. 



2197. Ascobolus viridis. Curr. " Green Ascobolus," 



Sessile, plane, or very slightly concave, of a dark, dingy, yel- 

 lowish-green colour, externally very furfuraceous, almost tomen- 

 tose; sporidia elliptic-acuminate, rugoso-striate, amethyst-pur- 

 ple. — Curr. Linn. Trans.xxiv. p. 154, 1863. Cooke Seem. Journ. 

 1864. Baud. Ann. Sc. Nat. (1869), x. t. b,f. 4. B.^Br. Ann. N.H. 

 7Z0. 1081. 



On clay ground. Sept. Oct. Near Bristol. 



2198. Ascobolus Cxouani. Conke (non Bond). •' Vermillion 



Ascobolus." 



Yermillion-red, sessile, fleshy, smooth, first urceolate, then 

 hemispherical ; hymenium flat, surrounded by a more or less 

 incised, soft, vrhite, membranceous frill ; asci wide, straight, or 

 incurved ; sporidia when young having a large nucleus in the 

 centre, surrounded by a circle of smaller ones, then verrucosa, 

 and finally reticulated; paraphyses filamentous, simple, or forked, 

 thickened at the apex, and much longer than the asci. — Fckl. 

 €Xs.no.\^d2>. Cooke exs. no. 286. Cooke Seem. J. Bot. Ma?/, 1864:^ 

 f. 3. B. ^' Br. Ann. N.H. no. 1085, 1. 16,/. 26. Ascobolus miniatus, 

 Crouan (non Prevss), Ann. des. Sc. Nat. 1858, vol. x. p. 197, 1. 13, 

 /. i. 44 — 47. Crouania miniata, Fckl. Sym. Myc.p. 320. 



On the earth, amongst small mosses. Autumn. 



Receptacle composed of round or oval cells, very small, closely packed, 

 intermixed with articulated, hyaline, anastomosing, or confluent filaments ; 

 *' sporidia when mature beautifully reticulated, like those of some truffles." 

 Boudier ( Aan. Sc. Nat. f 1869^, x, p. 257) says that this is not an Ascobolus, but 

 a Peziza (Huniaria). 



2199. Ascobolus jungexxnanniae. B. & Br. " Verdigris 



Ascobolus." 



Scattered, sessile, fleshy, smooth, deep verdigris-green ; cups 

 plane, marginate ; asci slightly clavate ; sporidia elliptic, in- 

 tense verdigris-green ; paraphyses clavate at the tips, greenish. 



