ASCOBOLUS, 291 
Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” ii. No. 189; Rehm, “ Asco.,” No. 1; 
Rav., “Fung. Am.,” 312, 682. 
On old cow-dung. Spring and autumn. 
Cups from 4 to } of a line broad. When young and 
moist the cups are pale yellowish green; when old the 
disc is black, and the prominent margin dirty-white and 
granulose. 
Name—Furfur, bran; branny or scurfy 
Universally distributed. 
7. Ascobolus viridulus. Phil. and Plow. 
Scattered, sessile, hemispherical, concave, then ex- 
panded, submarginate, thick, pale yellowish-green, 
coarsely granulated; asci clavate; sporidia 8, elliptic, 
violet, becoming brown, rugose-striate, 13 x 64; para- 
physes rather stout, distinctly septate, clavate at the 
apices, enveloped in a pale green mucus. 
Ascobolus viridulus—Phil. and Plow. in “Grevillea,” 
viii. p. 103. 
On rejectamenta of birds (pigeons ?). Spring. 
Cups } to 2 of a line broad. This has-much the out- 
ward character of A. furfwraceus in a young state, but 
the sporidia are very much smaller. 
Name—Viridis, green ; slightly green. 
Haughmond Hill, near Shrewsbury ! 
8. Ascobolus atro-fuscus. Phil. and Plow. 
Sessile, crowded or scattered, blackish-brown, con- 
cave, then plane; margin crenulate; externally fur- 
furaceous; asci clavate; sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, 
obtuse, hyaline, then purple, at length brown, epispore 
granulated or verrucose, 22 x 134; paraphyses linear, 
occasionally branched. 
Ascobolus atro-fuscus—Phil. and Plow. in “Grevillea,” 
ii. p. 186, t. 24, f 1. Ase. viridis—Boud., “Ann. Se. 
Nat.,” 1869, vol. x. t. 5, f. 4; Gill, “Champ.” p. 140. 
Asc. carbonicola—Boud., “Soe. Bot. de Fr.,” October, 1877. 
Exs.—Phil, “ Elv. Brit.,” No. 47. 
On a charcoal bed. July. 
