150 THE GENUS ASCOBOLUS. 
Two of the species found by Mr. Currey are now described by him 
' for the first time. 
 BRITISH SPECIES. 
5. AsCOBOLUS FURFURACEUS, Pers. ; sessile, slightly 
concave, brown or greenish, externally furfuraceous ; asci 
elavate, with an inner separable membrane ; sporidia al- 
mond-shaped, biseriate rugose, amethyst-purple. 
Pers. Obs. i. t. 4. f. 3-6; Fr. Sys. Myc. ii. p. 163; 
Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 426 ; Sc. Crypt. Fl. t. 307; Berk. Eng. 
Fl. v. p. 209; Outl. p. 374; Currey, Liun. Trans. xxiv. 
t. xxv. f. 9, 10; Cooke, Ind. Fung. n. 1888.  Peziza 
stercoraria, Bull. t. 376, 538. f. 4; Sow. t. 18, 389. 
f. 3-6 ; With. iv. p. 309. P. fusca, Bolt. t. 109, f. 2 ; 
With. x. p. 309. P. violacea, Relh. 558. P. atra, 
Huds. Fl. Ang. 637 ; With. iv. p. 313. 
On cow-dung, all the year. Very common. 
Fig. 1. Ascus and sporidia : magnified. 
6. ASCOBOLUS VIRIDIS, Curr. ; sessile, plane or very slightly con- 
eave, of a dark, dingy, yellowish-green colour, externally very furfura- 
ceous, almost tomentose ; sporidia elliptic-acuminate, rugoso-striate, 
amethyst purple. 
Curr. in Linn. Trans. xxiv. p. 154, 1863; Cooke, Ind. Fung. Brit. 
n. 1889. 
On clay ground, Hanham woods, near Bristol. October 15, 1861. 
(F. Currey.) Leigh wood, Bristol, September, 1848. (C. E. Broome.) 
9. ASCOBOLUS DENUDATUS, Fr. ; gregarious, yellow- 
ish-green, smooth, turbinate, substipitate; disk plane. 
[Asci clavate; paraphyses simple; sporidia eight, violet- 
coloured when mature, irregularly rugose, ovate or elliptic, 
0:0007—0:0008 in. long.] 
Fries, Sys. Myc., ii. p. 164. 
On old fir-poles (Fries). On the ground attached to 
little roots, ete. Marlborough Forest. October I5 
1863 (C. E. Broome). 
Fig. 2. Asus, sporidia, and paraphysis : magnified. 
10. AscoBoLus CILIATUS, Schm. ; sessile, subhemi-  Fi& 2. 
spherical, smooth, orange; disk plane; margin swollen, white, fringed 
with white hairs ; asci large; sporidia broadly elliptic. 
