288 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Cups about } to 3% a line broad; flesh olive; disc 
becomes black when dry. 
Name—Zrugo, verdigris; from the colour. 
8. Ascobolus vinosus. Berk. 
Sessile, at first globose, then depressed, smooth, dull 
purple; margin laciniate; hymenium plane or convex, 
livid-purple; asci broadly clavate; sporidia 8, elliptic, 
rugose, ruge anastomosing, at first colourless, then 
purple, at length brown, 23 x 13u; paraphyses filiform, 
septate, scarcely coloured, enveloped in livid gelatine. 
Ascobolus vinosus—Berk., “Eng. Flo.” v. p. 209; 
“ OutL,” p. 374; Cooke, “Jour. Bot.,” 1864; B. and Br., 
« Ann. Nat. Hist.,” No. 1083,* t. 16, £25; Boud., “ Ascob.,” 
p. 31, t. 6, f. xi; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2201; Gill, 
“Champ.,” p. 145. 
Exs.—Berk., No. 159; Fekl, “F. Rh.,” 1852; Phil. 
“ Elv. Brit.,” No. 95. 
On rabbit-dung in‘woods. Autumn. 
Cups about 3 to 1 line broad. The pseudo-parenchyma 
consists of dark purple-brown cells. 
Name—Vinum, wine; colour of wine. 
Common and generally distributed. 
Haughmond Hill, and Attingham, near Shrewsbury ! 
Ereall Hill, Salop ! 
4. Ascobolus glaber. Pers. 
Sessile, minute, crowded, rarely scattered, glabrous, 
shining, subgelatinous, oblong-globose, then pyriform ; 
base immersed, appearing hemispherical, plane or convex, 
varying in colour from white or orange to vinous- 
brown; asci broadly cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, 
elliptic, clear violet, rugose, rugee anastomosing, 25 x 13; 
paraphyses Gliform. . 
Ascobolus glaber—Pers., “Obs.,” i. p. 34, t. 4, f. 7; 
“Syn. Fung.” p. 667; “Myco. Eur.,” i. p. 340; Bivona, 
“ Man.,” iv. p. 27, t. vif. 4; A.and &, p. 348: Fries, “ Sys. 
Myco.,” ii. p. 164; Cheval. “Flo. Par.” i. p. 383; Mérat., 
“Filo. Par.,”i. p. 254; Berk., “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 209; “Outl.,” 
