SACCOBULUS. 297 
Name—Depaupero, to impoverish. 
Spye Park, Bathford, Hanham, ete. (Mr. C. E. 
Broome). 
B. EXTERIOR PUBESCENT. 
6. Saccobolus cesariatus. Renny. 
Minute, hemispherical, white, clothed with colourless, 
septate, slender, flexuous hairs; hymenium convex, papil- 
late from the exserted asci; asci broadly clavate ; sporidia 
elliptic, purple, smooth, enclosed in a common hyaline 
sac ; paraphyses filiform, rather stout, simple, or branched. 
Saccobolus cesariatus—Renny in litt. 
This is an exceedingly beautiful species, very minute, 
but, unfortunately, no dimensions are given, nor yet the 
habitat. It resembles a pure white, sessile Lachnella. 
Name—Cesariatus, covered with hairs. 
Section B.—SPORIDIA HYALINE. 
Genus IV.—THEcoTHEUS. Boud in “ Ascob.” 
Receptacle waxy, sessile; hymenium erumpent, im- 
marginate, opaque, subpruinose, at first plane, then con- 
vex, rough with crystalline points, which are the much 
exserted asci; paraphyses longer, very slender, numerous, 
involved in gelatine; asci large, elongated, but broad, 
polysporus in the species noted, sub-umbonate at the apex, 
when mature exserted about half their length; sporidia 
hyaline, with a conspicuous central nucleus, free, larger 
epispore smooth, the young ones very commonly sur- 
rounded singly by mucilage (Boudier, J. c.). (Plate IX. 
fig. 56.) ‘ 
‘ Name—O«n, thecus, dOéw, I push; from the project- 
ing asci. 
One species only. 
1. Thecotheus Pelletiert. (Crouan.) 
Scattered or crowded, at first conical, then cylindrical, 
at length rotund-applanate, grey or cinereous-lilac; 
