New or Rare British Discomycetae. Carleton Rea. 59 
Ascophanus cervarius (Phill.) Boud. Phill. in Stevenson, Myco. 
Scot. 308, Brit. Disc. 100. 
In August 1920 Mr Norman G. Hadden forwarded to me some 
specimens of this species growing on Red Deer dung from the 
Horner Woods, Somerset, and numerous examples were also 
found there at the autumn foray. The ascophore is quite pallid 
or whitish at first and it is only with age that it becomes 
chestnut-brown. The asci are cylindrical, abruptly attenuated 
at the base, 155-170 x 13-15, operculate, not turning blue 
with iodine. The spores are hyaline, oblong elliptic, rounded at 
both ends, 15-17 x 8-gyp, I-guttulate. The paraphyses are 
hyaline, linear, 130-150 x 2 w, often forked at the apices, septate. 
Hyalinia turgidella (Karst.) Boud. Karst. Mon. Pez. 179, as 
Peziza turgidella, Rehm. in Rabh. Krypt. Fl. 1, 3, 680 
and figs. 1-5, 651, as Peztzella turgidella (Karst.) Sacc. 
Ascophores -2—-4 mm. wide, white, hyaline, becoming yellowish 
when dry, gregarious, or somewhat scattered, waxy, sessile, 
globose, closed at first and when dry, then cup-shaped, and 
finally plane and convex, subglabrous or minutely downy. Asci 
fusiform clavate, 30-40 x 4-6», apex obtusely pointed, inoper- 
culate, foramen immarginate, pore turning slightly blue with 
iodine. Spores hyaline, oblong fusiform, 5-10 x I-1°5 w, with 
a small oil drop at each end, biseriate or obliquely uniseriate. 
Paraphyses hyaline, filiform, 35-45 x 1°5-2u. Hypothecium 
pseudoprosenchymatous. On dead grass stems, Perth, 11th 
July, 1920, Mr James Menzies. 
Dasyscypha crystallina (Fuck.) Sacc. Fuck. Symb. Myc. 306. 
Rehm. in Rabh. Krypt. FI. 1, 3, 873, as Lachnum crystal- 
linum (Fuck.) Rehm. 
Ascophore -3-I mm. wide, yellowish white, becoming deeper, 
or golden yellow with age, gregarious, waxy, stipitate, globose, 
closed at first, then cup-shaped; stem -5—2 mm. long, thin; 
externally clothed (especially towards the margin) with erect, 
simple, straight, generally somewhat rough, septate hairs, 
40-60 x 3, gradually enlarged into a clavate or knobbed apex, 
4-5 in diam., incurved when dry. Asci cylindric-clavate, 
30-40 X 4-5, apex rounded, 8-spored, inoperculate, pore 
‘turning blue with iodine. Spores hyaline, oblong fusiform, 
straight, continuous, 5-8 x I-5-2m, 2-serlate. Paraphyses 
hyaline, lanceolate, 40-50 x 3-4 w, often I-septate towards the 
base. Numerous crystals of oxalate of lime present in the 
hymenium and interspersed between the hairs. On dead stems 
of Cnicus arvensis and other herbaceous plants, Perth, 6th June, 
1920, Mr James Menzies. Easily known amongst the Dasy- 
scyphae with colourless hairs, by the knobby apex of the hasrs. 
