Original Articles. 
NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS ASCOBOLUTS. 
_ By James Renyy. 
(Pirates 158—156.*) 
In M. Boudier’s well-laboured and elegant monograph} of the — 
genus Ascobolus, or rather the genera which he collects together in his 
family “eae he objects to associate with these genera any Pezize- 
form fungus which does not embody three characteristics—prominence 
of ascus, detec ence of the ascus i an operculum, and absence of 
his lists of species a minute cup-shaped fungus with aspect and habit 
remarkably similar to the prominent: species of his genus Ryparobius, 
like them endowed with many-spored asci. He relegates this 
plant, which he fully describes under the name of Peziza cunicularia, 
. to the vast genus Peziza. He concludes his Asset tion, however, by 
ss 
bhi the plant described by the MM. Crouan, when these Discomycetes 
all have been more thoroughly studied. M. Crouan’s fungus is 
rected the same as M. Boudier’s,or a sister for rm, and, as well 
as a similar growth found by M. Leveillé, pie wit . the verbal 
description given by M. Boudier of his Peziza 
prin 
in Herefordshire, but T “have oe fai 
specific distinctions, although all my plants will bear out the 
characters given y M. Boudier with but trifling alterations. As 
these salient varieties now number at least six, the time has perhaps 
arrived, foreshadowed by M. Boudier, when a new genus or a new 
section may be formed to contain 
Has then this small group of Discomycetes strong affinities either 
to Peziza or Ascobolus, in which case it would be well to make them 
a section of one of these genera, or are they, as M. Boudier holds, 
* We are greatly indebted to the Woolhope Club, Hereford, for permission 
to use these plates and the accom isd — hich were ere prepared for the 
new volume of their Transactions.—[£d, Ji ot.] 
+ Ann. des Sc. Nat. ser. 5, tom. x., p. 19%; mes also Journ. Bot., 1870, 
p. 40.) 
y.s. vot. 3. [Decemper, 1874. ] o4 
