448 Kev. M. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Fungi. 



otlier manufactured hemp or flax, occurs on rabbits' dung in 



the West of England, C. E. Broome. 



The asci project in good fresh specimens; and the habitat 



indicates an Ascobolus rather than an Helotium. 



Plate XIV. fig. 5. a. Ascus with paraphyses, magnified; h. sporidia, 

 more highly magnified. 



1083. A. denudatus, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. ii. p. 164. 



On the ground, attached to little roots. Marlborough Forest, 

 Oct. 15, 1863, C. E. Broome. 

 Sporidia -OOOr-'OOOS inch long. 



Plate XVI. fig. 24. a. Ascus with paraphysis, magnified; h. sporidia, 

 more highly magnified ; c. epispore, ditto. 



^A. vinosus, B. Engl. Fl. v. p. 209. 



Stylospores occur in this species occasionally at the tips of 

 the paraphyses — a circumstance exactly analogous to one ob- 

 served by us in a Lichen. (See Intr. to Crypt. Bot. p. 391, 

 fig. 80 d,) 



Plate XVI. fig. 25. a. Ascus, magnified ; b. sporidia, "OOOG-'OOOS inch 

 long, more highly magnified ; c. paraphysis with stylospores, ditto ; d. stylo- 

 spores fallen off', "0007 long, ditto. 



^A. ciliatus, Schm. 



Plate XIV. fig. 7- «. Plant, magnified; h. one of the cilia more 

 highly magnified ; c. asci with paraphysis, magnified ; d. sporidia, more 

 highly magnified. 



1084. A. depauperatus, n. sp. Cupulis minutis applanatis e 

 pallido vinosisj ascis brevibus; sporidiis obtuse fusiformibus, 

 lurido-violaceis, Isevibus j paraphysibus leviter incrassatis. 



On dung of sheep, horse, and deer. Spye Park, Bathford, 

 Hanham, &c., C. E. Broome. 



Cups minute, not exceeding one-hundredth of an inch in dia- 

 meter, yellowish when young, becoming vinous^ but sometimes, 

 when old, losing their purplish tint ; sporidia, as in ^. vinosus 

 and some others, collected in a distinct sac, •0004-*0005 inch 

 long by '00025 wide, which is only half the dimensions of those 

 of A. vinosus, the cups of which, moreover, are many times as 

 large. It does not agree with any of Crouan's species. 



Plate XIV. fig. 6. a. Ascus with paraphysis, magnified ; b. sporidia, 

 more highly magnified. 



1085. A. Crouani, Cooke, in Seem. Journ. of Bot. May 1864. 

 [A. miniatus, Crouan.) 



The sporidia, as represented by Mr. Cooke, are very young. 

 As they advance to maturity, they are first verrucose, then 

 beautifully reticulate, like the sporidia of some truffles. 



Plate XVI. fig. 26. a. Ascus with branched paraphyses, magnified ; 

 b. sporidia in a young stage of growth ; c. more advanced, '0005 inch in 

 diameter, more highly magnified. 



