182 TRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Name—Ater, black. 
Shrewsbury ! Hereford! Trefriw, North Wales! 
Form Asparagi. (Winter.) 
Scattered or crowded, globose or hemispherical, nigri- 
cant, scabrous; margin whitish, connivent; ascl cylin- 
draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-fusiform ; 8—10 x 1p; 
paraphyses filiform, slender. . 
Peziza atrata, form Asparagi—Winter in Rabh., 
“Fung. Eur.,” No. 1908. 
Exs.—Rabh., “Fung. Eur.,” l. ¢. 
On dead stems of asparagus. Autumn. 
Name—Asparagus, the well-known herb. 
King’s Lynn! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
Form Enanthes. Phil. 
Gregarious, at first globose, then hemispherical, gla- 
brous, even, cinereous or nigricant; margin paler; asci 
fusiform or clavate-fusiform ; sporidia oblong-fusiform, 
8 x lu; paraphyses scarce. 
Peziza atrata, form Ginanthes, in “ Elv. Brit.” 
Exs.—Phil., “Elv. Brit.,” No. 179. 
On,dead stems of Ginanthe crocata. Autumn 
Cup about ‘3 mm. broad. 
Name—@nanthe, a genus of Umbellifere. 
Shelton Rough, near Shrewsbury ! 
Form wlmarie. (Lasch.) 
Gregarious, minute, at first globose, nigricant, per- 
pendicularly: rugose, afterwards expanded, brownish- 
black; margin whitish, connivent; hymenium concave, 
cinereous; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, cylin- 
draceo-fusiform, 5—8 x 15u; paraphyses filiform, scarce. 
Peziza ulmorie—Lasch in Klotzsch, “H. M.,” 1723; 
“Flora,” 1853, p. 201; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2109. 
Exs.—Lasch in Klotzsch, “H. M.,” 1728; Cooke, 
“Fung. Brit.,” 399; Phil., “Elv. Brit.,” 74. 
On dead stems of Spirwa wlmaria, in damp places. 
Autumn, 
