_ Verrucose. These strize are simple or branched, are ica Be 
Soppitt and Crossland: New British Fungi. 29 
On decaying fern stems, High Greenwood, Heptonstall, May 
1897. The exterior in our specimens is minutely reticulated with 
black ridges. 
Ascobolus Leveillei Boud., Mém. sur les Ascoboles, p. 35,. 
t. VII., f. 16; Sacc., Syl., VIII., n. 2153. Minutus, congestus, 
bruntsus, extus opacus et minutissime furfuraceus, 1 mm. lat.,. 
phheultormis: semimmersus; ascis longissime exsertis, aaple 
clavatis, 180 x 30, octosporis ; sporidiis distichis obtuse ellip- 
soideis, hyalinis, dein brunneis, 25- 27 x 16, pines leviter 
reticulato ; paraphysibus filiformibus, apice vix incrassatis 
in stercore equino prope Paris Galliz et in GGaveaniies 
Ascis gelatina sulphurea interposita longe exsilientibus facile 
distincta species. Asci jodo coerulescent, episporium violascit. 
eG. 16) 
In immense numbers on horse dung, Copley, near Halifax, 
November 1898. Easily known by its small size, colour, densely 
gregarious habit, and especially by its smooth spores. In — 
our specimens the excipulum is parenchymatous, cortical cells 
rotund-polygonal, 15-20 » diam. ; asci 140-160 x 28-30; spores 
occupying nearly all the space, epispore to all appearance per- 
crimes smooth; Seas ge Joe cylindrical, 3°5 » thick, apex not 
' thicken 
A aieihe olus (Sphzridiobolus) Crosslandi Boudier, Bulletin 
de la Société Mycologique de fe tome XIV., 3° Fascicule, 
Pp. 126-127. ‘ Minutis,o mm. 50 usque et 1 mm. $0; luteo-virens, 
glaber marginatus, sporis striatis, "perfect sphericis, violaceis. 
Receptacula extus glabra aut vix minute furfuracea, primo 
rotundata, dein hemispherica, posteaque expansa, luteo-virentia, 
margine irregulariter dentato, hymenio pro more thecis maturis 
nigro punctato; paraphysis septate, ad apicem incrassate 
_ 6-10 w crass, et ut thece gelatina lutea immerse ;_ thece 
_ Octosporee, late clavate, ad basim paululum attenuatz, 170-200 p 
jonge, 25 circiter late ; spore perfecte globose, pulcher et 
intense violacee, dein fuscescentes, striate, 16-18 p crasse. 
Halifax, Anglia, Nov. 1897. Ad stercus caninum.’ (loc. cit.) 
* 
Boudier adds: ‘This pretty species is above all remark- 
able for the entirely spherical shape and lovely violet colour of - 
its spores. It comes under my genus Spheeridiobolus, based | 
upon the Ascobolus hyperboreus of Karsten, which is distinguished 
from this by the paler colour of its spores. Now, in the species 
I am describing their stria and their deep colour make them so 
nearly like the “typical Ascobolz that one can really only class 
them separately as a sub-genus. In fact the spores, although _ 
Perfectly round, are equally a beautiful violet, striate and not 
