ASCOBOLUS. 287 
A. EXTERIOR SMOOTH. 
1. Ascobolus denudatus. Fries. 
Gregarious, yellowish-green, smooth, turbinate, sub- 
stipitate; hymenium plane; asci clavate; sporidia 8, - 
elliptic, violet, at length brown; epispore reticulated, 
17 X 8; paraphyses rather stout, clavate, forked, or with 
irregular processes at the summits. 
Ascobolus denudatus—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 162; 
Cooke, “Jour. Bot.” (1864), f. 2; Crouan, “Flo. Fin.,” p. 
57; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2196; B. and Br., “Ann. 
Nat. Hist.,” No. 1088, t. 16, f. 24; Boud., “ Ascob.,” p. 26, 
t. 5, £3; Fekl, “Symb. Myco.,” p. 287; Gill, “Champ.,” 
p. 189. 
Exs.—F kl, “F. Rh.,” 1849. : 
On old fir-poles; on the ground, attached to decayed 
leaves, ete. Autumn. 
Cups about 1 line’ broad. 
Name—Denudatus, made naked. 
Marlborough Forest; Stopham, Sussex! (Mr. C. H. 
Spencer Perceval). Norton Camp, Craven Arms, Salop ! 
Ereall Hill, Salop! Leigh Downs, near Bristol! (Mr. C. 
Bucknall) 
2. Ascobolus erugineus. Fries. 
Sessile, gregarious, at first globose or subcylindrical, 
smooth, somewhat shining, translucent, from yellowish- 
green approaching olive when old, but not purple; 
hymenium plane, marginate, becoming nigro-punctate ; 
asci narrowly clavate; sporidia 8, elliptic, violet or 
purplish-violet, at length brown, rugose, rugze anasto- 
mosing, sometimes smooth, 15—17 x 8u; paraphyses 
filiform, septate, hyaline, mvolved in sulphur-green 
gelatine. : 
Ascobolus wrugineus—Fries, “ Obs.,” ii. p. 310; “Sys. 
Myco.,” ii. p. 165; Cooke, “Jour. Bot.,” 1864; Boud., 
“ Ascob.,” p. 32, t. 7, £12; Gill, “Champ.,” p. 146. Asco- 
bolus marginatus—Schum., “ Seel.,” ii. p. 437. 
On horse-dung. August. 
