ELVELLACEI. 729 



C. Saccobolus. Bond. 



2206. Ascobolus Kezverni. Crouan. " Golden Ascobolus " 



Very small, fine golden-yellow, sessile, hemispherical, some- 

 times subcylindrical ; hymenium flat or convex ; asci wide, in- 

 curved, spores elliptical, first white, then rosy, and finally of a 

 beautiful violet, disposed at the summit of the ascus, in an oblong 

 mass, enclosed in a hyaline membrane ; paraphyses simple, fili- 

 form, a little thickened at their summit, and of a yellow colour. 

 — Crouan. Ann. des Sc. Nat. 1858, vol. x. p. 193, 1. 13, f. B. 7-11. 

 Fckl. exs.no. 1836. Cooke Seem. J. Bot. May, 1864:, Jig. 8. B. ^ 

 Br. Ann. N.H. no. 1090 t. 11 J. 34. 



In small groups upon old cow dung. Oct. Bathford. 



Receptacle composed of a thin filamentous tissue, anastomosing in a re- 

 ticulated manner. 



" The sporidia are dark violet when mature, and not reticulated. When 

 young they nearly fill the ascus, but when mature are confined to a small 

 space. When their proper envelope bursts, a number of minute globular 

 bidiea escape, apparently of a different character from the coarser ones 

 which fill the space between the primary and secondary membranes when 

 they are immature." — B. tt Br. 



2207. Ascobolus depauperatus. B.&Br. "Pallid 



Ascobolus." 



Cups minute, plane, pallid, then vinous ; asci short ; sporidia 

 obtusely fusiform, lurid violet, even ; paraphyses slightly incras- 

 sated.— Z^. ()• Br. Ann. N.H. no. 1084, 1. 14,/. 6. 



On dung of sheep, horse, and deer. Bathford, &c. 



Cups minute, not exceeding 1-lOOth in. diameter, yellowish when young, 

 becoming vinous, but sometimes when old, losing their purplish tint ; spo- 

 ridia as in ^4. vinosm and some others, collected in a distinct sac, (•0U04- 

 •0005 in.) •01--0127m.m. long, by (-00025 in.) '0065 m.m. wide, which is only 

 half the dimensions of those of ^4. vinosus, the cups of which, moreover, are 

 many times as large. — B. d: Br. 



D. AscoPHANUs. Bond. 



2208. Ascobolus granuliforxnis. Crouan, "Grain-like 



Ascobolus." 



Sessile, sphaerical, pale yellow-ochre, translucent, opaque in 

 the centre, smooth; asci very small, wide; sporidia hyaline, 

 oval ; paraphyses colourless, thickened into a club -shape at their 

 apex. — Crouan. Ann. des Sc. Nat. 1858, vol. x. p. 196, 1. 13, /, 27- 

 31. FcJd. exs. no. 1850. Cooke Seem^ J. Bot, May, 1864,, Jig. 5. 



