290 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Exs.—Phil., “ Elv. Brit.,” 196. 
On damp clay ground in woods. Autumn. 
Cups 2 to 3 lines broad. 
Name—Viridis, green. ; 
Hanham, near Bristol (Mr. C. E. Broome). Leigh 
Woods, Clifton (Mr. C. E. Broome). Poynton Springs, 
Salop ! 
6. Ascobolus furfuraceus. Pers. 
Sessile, globose, then expanded; externally greenish- 
yellow, furfuraceous; hymenium slightly concave, then 
plane, at length convex, same colour, when old growing 
blackish-brown; margin furfuraceous, denticulate, or 
submembranaceous, friable ; asci broadly clavate; sporidia 
8, elliptic, epispore rugose-striate, rugee anastomosing, 
purple, growing brown, 20—22 x 10u; paraphyses fili- 
form, septate, enveloped in sulphur-yellow gelatine. 
Ascobolus furfwraceus—Pers., “Tent. Disp. Meth.,” 
p. 25; “ Obs.” i p. 33, t 4, f. 3-6; “Syn. Fung.,” 
p. 676; “Myco. Eur.” i. p. 340; A. and &, p. 348; 
Schum., “Saell.,” ii. p. 436; Rebent., p. 388; Bernhard, 
“Manip.,” iv. t. 9, f. 5; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 163; 
Grev., “Se. Crypt. Flo.,” vi. p. 807; Cheval., “ Flo. En. 
Par.,” i. p. 8303; Merat., “Flo. En. Par.,” i. 254; Kromb., 
t. v. f. 45, 48; Schw., “Syn.” p. 178; Wallr., “Crypt. 
Flo.,” f. 515 ; Coemans, “ Not. Ascob. Belg.,” 1862, p. 18; 
“Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 209; Berk., “Outl.,” p. 874; De Not., 
“ Dise.,” p. 6; Curr., “Linn. Trans.,” xxiv., t. xxv., £9; 
Cooke, “Jour. Bot.,” May, 1864, f. 1; Kickx., “Flo. 
Crypt. Flan,” i. p. 479; Crouan, “Flo. Finn.,” p. 57; 
Nyl., “Pez. Fenn.,” p. 82; Karst. “Myco. Fenn.,” p, 76; 
Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2200; Fckl., “Symb. Myco.,” 
p. 286; Gill, “Champ.,” p. 144,¢.i. Peziza stercoraria 
—Bull., t. 376, 538, f. 4; Sow., t. 18, 389, f. 3-6. P. 
fusca—Bolt., t. 109, f. 2. 
Exs.—Rav., exs. vi. No. 81; Fekl., “F. Rh,,” No. 
11382; Desm., “Crypt. Fr.,” ed. i. No. 1315, ed. ii. No. 
715; Karst. “Fung. Fenn.” 170; Phil., “Elv. Brit.,” 46; 
