Dlscomyceteao, Ascoboleaj, PhaDospoPitj, Ascobolus. 519 



Jlab. in fimo Peradenya (Thwaites), iii limn bubalino Ceylon 



(nRCCAKl). 



22. Ascobolus major B. ot C. Nortli Amer. Kungi n. 772. — De- 2152 

 planatus, margine eximio, prominente, umbrino; sporidiis ellipticis 

 levibus, 2S-:50 ii. iong. 



llah. in fiino in Carolina inl". Amer. bor. 



23. Ascobolus Leveillei Houd. Ascob. p. 35. t. VII, f. 16, nec Crouan. ^i^^^ 



— Minutus, congestus, brunneus, extus opacus et minutissime fur- 

 furaceus, 1 mm. lat , subpiriformis, semimmersus; ascis longissi- 

 me exsertis, amplis, clavatis, 180^30, octosporis; sporidiis disticliis 

 obtuse ellipsoideis, hyalinis, dein brunneis, 25-27 = IG, episporio 

 leviter reticulato; paraphysibus filiformibus, apice vix incrassatis. 



Ilab. in stercore equino prope Paris Galliae et in Germania. 



— Ascis gelatina sulphurea interposita longe exsilientibus facile 

 distincta species. Asci jodo ccorulescunt, opisporium violascit. 



J4. Ascobolus sphaericus Preuss Hoyersw. n. 150. — Immersus, mi- 2154 

 nutus, sphasricus, rugosus; ascis cylindricis hyalinis albis; spori- 

 diis octo, ovatis nigrescentibus; episporio glabro; guttulis oleosis 

 subbinis; paraphysibus clavatis. 



Hab. in fimo canino prope Hoyerswerda. 



b) Species humi-carbonicolse. 



•jr). Ascoboius viridis Curr. Linn. Trans. XXIV, p. 154, 1863 Phill. ?i55 

 Disc. p. 280; t. IX, f. 54, nec Houd. — Ascomatibus sparsis ses- 

 silibus v. substipitatis, planiusculis, furfuraceis v. tomentellis ob- 

 scure viridi-luteis, 1,5-2 mm. lat. ; ascis clavatis, jodo non tinctis, 

 18-20 [X. lat., octosporis; sporidiis ellipsoideis acuminatis, rugoso- 

 striatis, violaceo-fuscescentibus, 25-32 =; 11,5-13; paraphysibus nu- 

 raerosis, articulatis, 2 u. crassis, muco virente obvolutis. 



Ilab. ad terram humoso- arenosam locis umbrosis iit Britannia, 

 Fennia, Gallia, Italia, Araerica boreali. — In speciminibus pata- 

 vinis: asci cylindraceo-clavati, breve stipitati, apice rotundati, 180 

 -20, p. sporif. 100 longa; paraphysibus filiformibus, guttulatis ob- 

 vallati, octospori. Sporidia disticha, ovata, 25slG, rugoso-stria- 

 tula, initio 1-guttata, hyalina, tandem pure fuliginea (non viola- 

 cea). Ascomata olivaceo-virentia. — ^microspermus Speg. F. Arg. 

 IV, n. 220: ascomatibus viridibus, breviter turbinatis, disco primo 

 hemispha3rico, dein patellari-applanato, glaberrimo (2-5 mm.diam.); 

 ascis cylindraceis vel cylindraceo-clavatis, 140-150 =; 10-20, apice 

 obtuse truncato-rotundatis, deorsum attenuato-stipitatis ; paraphy- 



