296 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
On rabbit-dung. Spring. 
Cups 200 to 500 broad, convex, when dry brown. 
Name—WNeglectus, neglected. ; 
King’s Lynn! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Leigh Woods, 
near Bristol! (Mr. C. Bucknall). 
4, Saccobolus violasceus. Boud. 
Scattered or crowded, minute, sessile, glabrous, 
shining, hemispherical, then more or less expanded, 
violet or cinereous-violet ; hymenium scarcely paler, con- 
vex, rarely undulated; asci broad, attenuated at the 
base; operculum plane; sporidia 8, elliptic, sub-acute, 
often navicular, at first hyaline, then rosy, at length 
approaching a blue-violet or violet-black, smooth, 15 x 9p, 
enclosed in a common hyaline membrane; paraphyses 
septate, apices pyriform, becoming violet-colour. (Plate 
IX. fig. 55.) 
Saccobolus wolasceus—Boud., “ Ascob.,” p. 41, t. 8, 
f.19. Ascobolus violasceus—Phil. and Plow., “ Grevillea,” 
ili. p. 126; Gill, “Champ.,” p. 141, «i. 
Exs.—Phil., “ Elv. Brit.” No. 48. 
On cow-dung. Autumn. 
Cups 3 to 1 line broad, subgelatinous. 
Name—Violasceus, of a violet-colour. 
King’s Lynn! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Wrekin, Salop ! 
5. Saccobolus depauperatus. (B. and Br.) 
Cups minute, plane, pallid, then vinous; asci short, 
broad, oblong, base abruptly narrowed to a short stem; 
sporidia 8, obtusely fusiform, lurid violet, even, 
10—12 X 6:54; enclosed in a common hyaline sac; para- 
physes filiform, septate, slightly incrassated at the summit. 
Ascobolus depauperatus—B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. 
Hist.,” No. 1084, t. 14, £ 6; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2207. 
On dung of sheep, horse, and deer. 
“Cups minute, not exceeding y} 5 of an inch in 
diameter, yellowish when young, becoming vinous, but 
sometimes when old losing their purplish tint” (B. 
and Br.). 
