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length with the endochrome divided ; paraphyses simple, filifonn, 

 slightly granular. 



On dead twigs of broom. Dupplin Castle, Perth. 



Cups 1 m.m. broad ; Asci -1 X "02 m.m. ; sporidia •02--025 X 

 •005 m.m. 



Ascobolus amethystinus. Phillips, Grevillea iv,, p. 84. 



On damp sandy soil, near Shrewsbury. 



Ascobolus crenulatus. Karst. Fung. Fenn. No. 763. 



Gregarious, sessile, at first spheeroid, then flattened, nearly 

 plane, greenish-yellow, furfuraceous ; margin crenulate (1-5 m.m. 

 broad) ; asci clavate ; sporidia elliptical, striate, violet, becoming 

 brownish ; paraphyses slender. — Karst. Myc. Fenn. i. p. 77. 



On grouse dung. Rannoch. Dr. Buchanan White. 



Sporidia •012--016 X •006--008 m.m.; cups about 1-li m.m. 

 broad ; disc of the Rannoch specimens, vinous when old, retaining 

 the greenish colour at the base of the cups. 



Ascobolus (Saccobolus) obscuzus. Cooke. 



Subgregarious, sometimes densely crowded, fuliginous, hynie- 

 nium convex, rather paler. Asci clavate. Sporidia elliptical, rough, 

 becoming violet, collected into an elliptical mass. Paraphyses 

 linear. 



On old sacking. Forden. 



Cups ^-f m.m. Sporidia •012--014 x '007 m.m. 



Ascobolus (Ascophanus) pilosus. Fr, 



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

 ternally pilose with long hairs ; disc papillate ; margin naked ; 

 hairs simple, incrassated at the base; asci clavate ; sporidia hyaline, 

 oblong ovate ; paraphyses slender, septate, simple, or branched, 

 granular. Boud. Mem. p. 64. 



On grouse dung. Rannoch. Dr. Buchanan White. 



Cups x\fth m.m. broad; sporidia -02 x "01 m.m. 



This is referred to A. pilosus as a variety, but the specimens 

 Tvere more minute than usual, scarcely visible to the naked eye, 

 pallid. It differs from any form of A. papillatus and A. ciliatus, 

 in the hairs not being marginal but clothing the surface of the cup ; 

 they are also more slender than in the other species. It was ac- 

 companied by a minute Ryparohms and Sphoeria {Sporormia) 

 Notarisii. 



Xylasia Scotica. Cooke. 



Suberose ; stem very long, pallid, root-like, slender, 1-3 times 

 dichotomously branched above ; branches elongated, or very short 

 and fasciculate ; heads elongated, subcylindrical ; apex more or 

 less acute, greyish-brown, then black ; perithecia very numerous, 

 slightly papillate ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, 

 brown, minute. 



On the ground. Meihlouer. Mr. Matheson. 



Entire length, including rooting base, 2 to 6 inches. Clubs 

 about 1 inch long ; sporidia -005- -006 x "003 m.m. 



