SACCOBOLUS. 16& 



larly 2-seriate, smooth, continuous, elliptic-oblong, ends 

 blunt, for a long time hyaline, then becoming brown, 20-25 

 X 12-14 //,; paraphyses numerous, hyaline, septate, about 

 2 /A thick, scarcely or not at all thickened at the tips. 



On cow dung. 



Type specimen examined. In Cooke's Fung. Brit., Exs., 

 n. 286, the present species is mixed with Ascophanus pilosus. 



■Agreeing with AseopJianus pilosus in the colourless, aseptate, 

 pointed hairs, but differing in the larger spores, which 

 eventually become brown. Lachnea stercorea and L. copri- 

 naria are at once distinguished by the external hairs beini;- 

 brown and septate. 



SACCOBOLUS. Boud. (fig. 11. p. 156.) 



Ascophore sessile, somewhat fleshy, minute, at first' 

 subglobose ; the disc expanding and becoming plane or 

 slightly convex, at length studded with the tips of the 

 projecting asci ; externally glabrous or pilose ; excipulum 

 and cortex parenchymatous ; asci broadly clavate-oblong, 

 apex rather truncate, base narrowed into a pedicel, 8-spored ; 

 spores elliptical, at first hyaline, finally violet or violet- 

 brown, epispore often minutely cracked, when mature 

 aggregated in a cluster surrounded by a special membrane, 

 and situated near the top of the ascus ; paraphyses present. - 



Saccobolus, Boudier, Mem. Ascob., p. 38 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, 

 p. 293 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. p. 524. 



Allied to Asoobolus in the coloured spores, but readily 

 separated by having the spores enclosed in a special 

 membrane within the ascus, and aggregated in a group at 

 the apex of the ascus when mature. 



* Ascophore glabrous. 



Saccobolus obscurus. Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 295 ; 

 Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2180. 



Densely crowded or scattered, sessile, at first globose, the 

 disc gradually expanding and becoming plane or slightly' 

 convex, dingy brown, blackish when dry, from A-f mm. 

 across, glabrous; excipulum and' cortex formed of small. 



