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Plate LI. fig. 15 represents specimens of the plant, magnified ; and fig. 16 the sporidia, 
highly magnified. | 
PEZIZA CURREYANA, Berk. 
This plant was first described by myself in the Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. i. 
p. 147*; but no figure of it has yet been published. Having met with a number of good 
specimens this spring at St. George's Hill, in the neighbourhood of Weybridge in Surrey, 
I took the opportunity of having drawings made, from which figs. 17 & 18 of Plate LI. 
have been engraved. The sporidia are inconspicuous; they are narrow, subcylindrical, 
sometimes slightly curved, and colourless, 0:0004 to 0:0005 inch long. 
A minute technical description of the plant is given by Tulasne in his ‘Selecta 
Fungorum Carpologia,' vol. i. p. 105, note. 
ASCOBOLUS MINIATUS, Crouan. 
Ascobolus Crouani, Cooke in Seemann’s Journal of Botany, May 1864. 
This species was found by Mr. Broome, last autumn (1863), growing plentifully on 
heathy ground near the railway-station at Ascot. It was first described by the Messrs. 
Crouant in the * Annales des Sciences Naturelles,’ 4th ser. vol. x. (1858) p. 197. The 
Spores are there described as round, and having each a large sporidiolum in the centre, 
surrounded by a circle of smaller sporidiola. It is clear to me from an examination of 
Mr. Broome’s specimens, which are obviously the same species, that the Messrs. Crouan 
have only seen the sporidia in an imperfect condition. When fully ripe, they are beauti- 
fully reticulated, as shown in fig. 19, which represents an ascus with sporidia magnified 
430 diameters. The plant must not be confounded with Peziza leucoloma, to which 
externally it bears a strong resemblance, but which, according to Mr. Berkeley’s account 
in the * Annals of Natural History,’ has very different sporidia. 
ASCOBOLUS SACCHARINUS, Berk. & Curr. Cooke, J. c. 
Scattered or crowded; disk almost hemispherical when young, afterwards expanded 
and plane, of a reddish-pink or salmon-colour ; when dry, paler towards the margin ; plant 
attached at the base by white downy threads; hymenium somewhat glistening, looking 
as if sprinkled with minute particles of brown sugar; sporidia elliptical, colourless, 
0:0007 to 0*0008 inch long. On old leather and old rag. Chiselhurst, Kent. 
Plate LI. fig. 20 represents an ascus with sporidia, magnified 430 diameters. Leather, 
* On a New Species of Peziza, being the full development of Sclerotium roseum, Kneiff. de 
T The following is the description given by MM. Crouan :—“ De 5 à 10 millimètres de diamètre, d'une couleur 
minium, sessile, charnu, glabre, d’abord urcéolé, puis hémisphérique ; hyménium plan, entouré par une collerette 
membraneuse, blanche, molle, plus ou moins incisée ; thèques larges, droites ou incurvées, renfermant huit spores 
rondes, ayant chacune une grosse sporidiole au centre, et celle-ci entourée par un cercle de plus petites ; paraphyses 
filamenteuses, simples ou bifurquées, épaissies à leur sommet et beaucoup plus — que les théques ; réceptacle 
formé par des cellules arrondies ou ovoides, trés-petites, serrées entre elles, entremélées à des filaments hyalins, arti- 
culés, comme soudés et anastomosés entre eux. Croit sur la terre, parmi les petites mousses. Brest; automne. Peu 
commun. 
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