SACCOBOLUS. 293 
externally with very minute, simple, or fasciculate, 
hyaline hairs; hymenium shining, a little undulating; 
asci large, broadly clavate, very much exsrrted ; sporidia 
8, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, bright violet, becoming 
brown, faintly and distantly rimose 01 smooth, each 
enclosed ina wide hyaline membrane fille with a colour- 
less liquid, 50—70 x 30—48u; paraphys3s filiform. 
Ascobolus immersus—Pers., “Syn Fung.” 677; 
“Myco. Eur.,” i, p. 341; Nees, “Sys.,’ f. 297; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 164; Cheval. “Flo. En. Par.,” i. p. 
303; Duby, “Bot. Gall,” ii p. 739; Ccoemans, “ Not. 
Ascob. Belg.,” p. 12, No. 1; Kickx., “Flo. Flan.,” i. p. 
478; Nyl, “Pez. Fenn.,” p. 84; Karst., “Mon. Pez.,” 
3 204; Karst., “Myco. Fenn.,” p. 80; B. and Br., “ Ann. 
at. Hist.,” No. 1089, t. 17, f£. 88; Boud., “ Ascob.,” p. 36, 
t. 8, fig. xvii.; Fekl, “Symb. Myco.,” p. 286; Cooke, 
“Handbk.,” No. 2204; Gill, “Champ.,” p. 144 Ase. 
macrosporus—Crouan, “Ann. Sc. Nat.,” 1857, t. 4 B, 
f. 5-8; Cooke, “Jour. Bot.,” 1864, £7. Asc. gigasporus 
—De Not., “ Dise,” p. 6. 
Exs.—Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” ed. ii. No. 397. 
On cow, sheep, horse, and goose dung. Autumn. 
About 300 to 800u broad. Easily recognized by the 
large sporidia—larger than in any other species. 
Name—Immergo, to plunge; immersed. 
\ Batheaston (Mr. C. E. Broome). Longmynd, Salop, 
on goose-dung ! 
Genus III.—Saccozotus. Boud. 
Receptacle fleshy, sessile; externally glabrous, shining ; 
hymenium plane, then convex, bright, covered with the 
small exserted asci, resembling black shining granules; 
asci short, broad, almost quadrate at the apices, attenu- 
ated at the base, and then nearly wedge-shaped, the 
dehiscent operculum often triangular, not umbonate; 
sporidia 8; epispore waxy, smooth, very sparsely, 
minutely, and often transversely rimose, inclosed in a 
