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only — a habitat not recorded by M. Boudier ; his plant seems never- 

 theless to be identical with our own. Unfor tin lately, M. Bondier 

 does not give measurements of the sporidia, neglecting Dr. Nylander's 

 advice in his treatise on the Peziza) of Finmark, and thus depriving 

 botanists of one valuable means of identification) ; A. Lcveillei, 

 Boud. ; A. porphyrosporus, Fr. (is this species really distinct from 

 A. immersus, P. ? The description by Fries accords in many re- 

 spects with that of A. macrosporus, Cr., or A. immersus, P.). 



The genus Saccoholns has an hymenium dotted with black gxa- 

 nules — the tips of the asci, which are less exserted than in Ascobolus. 

 The paraphyses are equal in length to the asci. Asci short, sub- 

 quadrate above and subcuneate below ; operculum sub triangular, 

 without an umbo. Sporidia eight, having a smooth or slightly and 

 transversely rimose epispore, enclosed in a common membrane. 

 The following species are included : — Saccoholns Kerverm, Boud. ; 

 S. violascens, Bond.; S. neglectus, Boud. (this species is very near if 

 not identical with Ascobohts clepauperatus, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist, 

 ser. 3. vol. xv. p. 448, t. 14. fig. 6) ; -S^. glohuUfer, Boud. 



The following Ascoholi of various authors are not incorporated in 

 M.Boudier's genera, from want of clearness in their characters : — 

 A. sphcericus, Preuss. ; A. Daldinianus, De Not. ; A. rufo-pallidus, 

 Karst. ; A. lapponicus, Karst. The Ascoholi spurii of M. Boudier 

 foUow. Thecotheitis, having an erumpent hymenium, rough with 

 crystalline prominences (the tips of the much-exserted asci), filled 

 with hyaline sporidia ; Thecotheius Pelletieri, Boud., the only species. 

 Ryparohius has a very minute receptacle, few paraphyses, and large 

 many-spored asci, opening by a large convex operculum not much 

 exserted: Hyparohius brunneus, Boud., R. Cool'ci, Bond., R. fe- 

 linus, Bond., R. dubius, Boud., and R. myriosporus, Boud., consti- 

 tute the species of this genus. The genus Ascophanus foUows, with 

 an hymenium papillate with crystals from the slightly exserted asci, 

 equaUiug the paraphyses in length, and enclosing eight, or in one 

 species sixteen, ovate-oblong, hyaline sporidia. The species are : — 

 Ascophanus vmmtissimns, Boud. ; A. Coemansii, Boud., which seems 

 not to differ from Ascobolus microsporus, B. & Br. Z. c. p. 449, except 

 in the colour of the mature sporidia; (we may observe that Ascobolus 

 pilosus, Bond., or A, ciliatus of some writers, has sporidia of a dark 

 violet-colour when mature, which M. Boudier does not appear to 

 have noticed, as it would exclude it from his genus Ascophanus ;) 

 A. gramdiformis, Boud. ; A. argenteus, Boud. ; A. vicinus, Boud. ; 

 A. ocliraceus, Boud. ; A. sexdecemsporus, Boud. ; A. cmrora, Boud. ; 

 A. cineveus, Boud. ; A. carneus, Boud., which comes very near to 

 Ascobolus testaceus, "Wall. ; A. saccharimis, Boud. ; A. difformis, 

 Boud., sjTionymous with Ascobolus testaceus, Karst., and possibly 

 identical, M. Boudier thinks, with Ascobolus saccharimis, Currey ; 

 A. papillatus, Boud. ; A. ciliatus, Boud. ; and A. pilosus, Boud. 

 Among spurious and doubtful Ascoboli is placed A. miniatus, 

 Preuss. And excluded species follow, \'iz. : — A. jmlcherrimus, Cr., 

 doubtfully referred to Peziza subhirsuta or P. stercorea ; A. insignis, 

 Cr., referred to the same group of Peziza^; A. Persoonii, Cr., re- 



