132 BRITISH FUNGI. 



flattened, somewhat rounded, naked, brownish-black ; disc whitish ; 

 margin incurved. Asci cylindrical ; sporidia linear, minute, hyaline. 

 — Lasch. in Rabh. Herb. Myc. No. 335. 



On stems of Artemisia vulgaris. Isle of Wight. 



Feziza (Patellea) amphibola. Nyl. " Lichenoid Peziza." 

 Cups black, somewhat rugulose, becoming plane, delicately mar- 

 ginate, or at length rather convex and immarginate ; asci clavato- 

 cylindrical ; sporidia fusiform, 3-5 septate ; paraphyses slender, 

 simple or branched, slightly incrassated at the tips. —Nyl. Obs. 

 p. 66. Hepp. Flecht. Eur. No. 711. Karsten Mon. Pez. 168. 

 On bark of Pinas sylvestris. (Dr. Holl and W. Phillips.) 

 Sporidia (-0005--0007 X -0001--00015 in.) -014--02 X 003--004 

 m.m. 



Ascobolus (Ryparobius) Cookei. Baud. " Cooke's Ascobolus." 

 Much crowded, rarely scattered, very minute, externally brown, 

 hemispherical ; disc pallid, tawny, marginate ; asci broad, short, 

 somewhat attenuated at the base ; sporidia 64, oblong-ovate, 

 minute, hyaline ; paraphyses few, septate, slightly incrassated. — 

 Boud.Mon. Asc.p. 48, t.$,f. 24. Ascobolus Cookei, Crouan Flor. 

 Finist. p. 56. Ascobolus myriadeus, Karst. Syn. Pez. fy Asc. fide 

 Nyl. 



On dung (cow, rabbit, &c). Herefordshire. (J. Renny.) Near 

 London. (M. C. 0.) Near Bath. (C. E. B.) 



Ascobolus (Ascophanus) aurora. Crouan. " Glowing Ascobolus." 



Scattered, minute, orange-red, shining, flattened ; disc plane, or 

 convex when old, distinctly papillate ; asci clavate, octosporous ; 

 sporidia ovate, small, even ; paraphyses orange, slender, simple, 

 bifid, or trifid, curved. — Crouan Ann. des Sci. Nat. ser. 5, x. t. 11, 

 /. 36. Berk. £ Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1329. Boud. Mon. Asc. 

 ^.58, t. 11, /. 36. 



On cow dung. Feb. 



Sporidia (-00015--0003 in.) -0035--007 m.m. 



Stictis graminum. Desm. " Grass Stictis." 

 Orbicular, scattered, small, deeply excavated; disc black ; mar- 

 gin prominent, clad with a white meal, nearly entire ; asci elon- 

 gated ; sporidia [very minute, globose]. — Desm. PL Crypt. Exs. 

 No. 1071. Ann. des. Sci. Nat. (1840) xiii. 185. Berk. £ Br. Ann. 

 Nat. Hist., No. 1328. Fckl. Exs. No. 1106. Fckl. Sym. Myc. p. 

 250. 



On Carex paniculata. June. 



Desmazieres describes the sporidia as u very minute, globose." 

 Fuckel as " filiform, as long as the ascus." Not having seen the 

 British plant, we cannot determine the form of the sporidia. 



Fatellaria constipata. Blox. Handbook No. 2176. 

 This appears from comparison of authentic specimens of both to 

 be only Patellaria livida, B. & Br., with the sporidia more fully 

 matured. 



