356 NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS ASCOBOLUS. 
de Fin., p.-57, suppl f. 1 (in ey oye Sagan argenteus, B. & 
Br., Ann. “i . Hist. iv. Ser., vo 
simus, siioctin, ie part “pilis uniseriatis sequali- 
bus mollibus ciliatus ; ; cellule exteriores cupule nec bullate, pene 
plane ; spore 64. 
ups 2s—r1éo in. wide adhering to a few _— filaments, sessile, 
smooth, of a silvery whiteness, a a single even row of sub- 
cylindric smooth hairs not septate but satis lade about 3 of the 
total height. Asci curved, not so broad as in some other species. Pa- 
raphyses few, rather enlarged towards the tip: Mr. Berkeley found 
them forked. Spores 64. Towards maturity = ee hemi- 
spherical cups flatten not indghutdenibty: (Tab. 1 : 
. Wootnorensis, Renny. Ryparobius Padbigome' B. & Br., 
Ann. Nat. Hist., iv. ser., vol. xi., p. 347. Minutus, primum candi- 
dus dein albidus; cupulee asi substipitiforme: incrassate, — tuber- 
culate, sursum pilis mollibus partim biseriatis coronatz ; 
Cu i and high. § 
globular wart-like cells fringed with unequal close-set or over-lapping 
hairs which seem here and there to form a double row arising from the 
much smaller rounded even cells which form the ao 
On birds’ oo Winter. Hereford. [Tab. 
enn, Minutissimus, sitebar clare albus 
: Stipes de cellnlis ‘pullatis formatus, cupulam obconicam cellulis ex- 
terne subplanis conditam inferens; asci ampli prominentes bene 
annulati ; spore 64 ad 96, oblongo-fusiformes, i in massam imbricatam 
ad asci extremitatem aggregate : 
so—r1'o in. wide and high, ke silvery white. 
e bod he 
ery 
Stem formed of rounded pubtrient cells, y of the cup of 
smaller much flattened cells. Margina ‘ue in a thin single a 
short and irregular. Disc rough with the promiment asci which a 
very broad, tapering below, with strongly marked rings. The ae 
are more numerous than in 4. Woolhopensis, amounting probably 
96, and their collected mass is more eg and imbricate. The fine 
proportions and the thinness of the row of hairs seem also to die 
tinguish it from that species, = wlille ne spore number distinguishes it 
from A. parvisporus. 
On rabbits’ dung. Winter. — Seat 154, fig. 1-5.] 
A. Crovanr, Renny.—Minutissimus, primum candidus dein albi- 
dus, fragilis, sessilis, sn Sane. cabetaiitia laterum strato 
cellularum unico formata, ad marginem pilis uniseriatis curtis asperellis 
subacuminatis ciliatus; spore 32. 
ups ro rarely ahs in., formed e7 a single layer of subcu bical 
cells, with a single row of sharp, pointed hairs often roughened on 
their sides about one-sixth to one- sighth of the whole height. Dise 
plane, granulate. Asci narrower than usual. Spores normally 32, 
oblongo-fusiform. To be distinguished from 4. eunicularius by - 
shorter and tapering sigh cilia as well as by the thinness and trams- 
parency of the walls, 
On rabbits’ dung. Autumn. Hereford. [Tab. ~~ s 6-1 
A parvisporvs, Renny.—Minutissimus, fragilis, carnosior 
