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oceania 
Sacc roe 
30 Soppitt and Crossland: New British Fungi. 
tudinal and form by their direction two distinct poles. The 
ascophores are nearly glabrous, with the margin a little 
crenulate. The colour is uniformly that of the true Ascobole, 
viz., a greenish yellow, a little darker on the hymenium, as is 
common in this genus, being spotted with black by the pro- 
truding asci filled with ripe spores.’ 
Salterhebble, near Halifax, October and November 1897. 
Several fully expanded ascophores measured 2 mm. across. 
sa ee of asci were 130-170 x 16-20 #, and. spores 
cal cells sub-globose, 16-24 » diam. Ascophores 
when 
ry- 
ties granulospermus sp.n. Receptacula sparse 
aggregat rminutz, 0°3-0°5 mm. lata, sessilia, carnea, 
glabra, finda hites: fuseescentia in statu  siccitatis, primum 
subglobosa, demum expansa, diseo plano, nigro-punctato cum 
ascis projectentibus; ascis late clavatis vel cylindrico-clavatis, 
100-110 X 35 #, subito angustatis in pediculus brevibus ad basin, 
apicibus rotundatis incrassatisque; spores 8, ellipticus, polis 
obtusis, primum hyalinis et levibus, tum roseo-lilacinis, demum 
violaceis et subfuscescentibus, granulis minutis, 20-22 x 9-10 p, 
sacculo oblongo intra membraneum proprium inclusis; paraphy- 
sibus simplicibus vel ramosis, septatis, luteis, apicibus clavatis, 
curvatis, lat 6 » (4 p infra). 
Hab. in fimo bovino, Harewood, near Leeds, September 
1898, Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union Fungus Foray. 
Distinguished more especially by the finely granular epispore 
and the markedly curved apices of the paraphyses. The 8 spores 
are grouped in four pairs in two series as in S. Kerverni (Crouan), 
to which this closely approaches. In all the other species of the 
genus they are arranged in two rows consisting of three spores 
placed end to end, and one row of two laid on the juncture. 
The ascophores bear an external resemblance to S. Kervernz with 
the exception of being a little darker, but differ in the spores 
being rather smaller and finely granulose, and not the least 
fusoid or wrinkled. 
EXPLANATION OF FIGURES. 
Figs. 1-8, Mumaria deerata Karst.; fig. 1-4, ascophores and 2g of do. x 5 dia- 
meters ; fig. 5, ascus, spores, and ig ses; fig. 6, excipulum cells a, cortical cells ; 
fig. 8, hyphz ; figs. 58 x 350 diameters. Fig: S- £33) Ascobolus Cro. Sede B ; fig. 
ascophores and section x 5 diameters ; fig. , Spores ind paraphyses X 350 diameters ; 
fig. Te ona cells x 350 diameters ; + fig. I es pone {after Boudier) x se diame —_ Niet 
ee fig. 14, ascop! — x 5-6 diameters; fig. 
5 diameters fig es and paraphyses x 350 dlameters ; fe. or " JP eos 
icf. 18-21, Mollisia pteridine Taras: fig. x petite a res in different —— oF 
come pir section X 15 meters ; fig. 1 ascus, pire and paraphyses x 350 dia- 
meters; fig. 20, spores x indef. ; fig. 21, pore on of ascophore showing the " guberesliade 
margin < indef. All from nature except the pag spores after Boudier. 
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