292 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Cups 1 to 3 lines broad. The verrucose epispore 
distinguishes this from its congeners. 
Name—Ater, black, fuscus, brown. 
Wrekin, Shropshire ! 
9. Ascobolus crenulatus. Karst. 
Gregarious, sessile, at first globose, then flattened, 
nearly plane, greenish-yellow, furfuraceous ; margin 
crenulate; asci clavate; sporidia 8, elliptic, striate, vio- 
late, becoming brownish, 12—16 x 6—8u; paraphyses 
slender. 
Ascobolus crenulatus—Karst., “ Fung. Fenn.,” exs. 
763; “Pez, et Ascob.,” p. 202; “Myco. Fenn.,” p. 77; 
“ Grevillea,” iv. p. 112. 
Exs,—Karst., “ Fung. Fenn.,” No. 763. 
On grouse-dung. 
“Cups about 4 to 2 of a line broad; disc of the 
Rannoch specimens vinous when old, retaining the 
greenish colour at the base of the cups” (M. C. Cooke). 
Name—COrena, a notch ; slightly crenate. 
Rannoch, N.B. (Dr. Buchanan White). 
C. EXTERIOR PILOSE. 
10. Ascobolus brunneus. Cooke. 
Cups sessile, minute, globose, then depressed, sessile; 
externally pilose, pale ochre ; asci broadly clavate, short ; 
sporidia 8, elliptic, at first hyaline and granular, at length 
brown, 25—35 x 15u; paraphyses filiform. 
Ascobolus brunneus—Cooke in “ Fung. Brit.,” 1867; 
“Hedw.,” vi. p. 154; “Handbk.,” No. 2205; not Asc. 
brunneus—Boud., “ Ann. Se. Nat.,’ 1869. 
Exs.—Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” 286. 
On cow-dung. 
Name—Brunneus, deep brown. 
Shere, Surrey (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 
11. Ascobolus immersus. Pers. 
Immersed or slightly erumpent, very minute, sub- 
cylindrical or pyriform, clear yellowish-green; coated 
