310 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Var. y. saccharinus. (Berk. and Curr.) 
Cups ? to 1 line broad. “Reddish pink or salmon- 
colour, when dry paler towards the margin; plant attached 
at the base by white downy threads; hymenium some- 
what glistening, looking as if sprinkled with minute 
particles of brown sugar” (Berk. and Curr.). 
Ascobolus saccharinus (Berk. and Curr.)—Berk., 
“Outl.,” p. 374; Cooke, “Jour. Bot.,” 1864, f. 10; and 
‘Handbk.,” No. 2214; B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
No. 1091*, t. 17, f. 36. Ascophanus saccharinus—Boud., 
“ Ann. Sc. Nat.,” 1869, vol. x. t. 12, f£. 40; and “Ascob.,” 
p. 61,ei1. 
On old leather, and also on rag. 
M. Boudier could discover no anatomical character by 
which to distinguish this from A. carneus; nor can I, 
except that the sporidia are a little longer in proportion 
to their width. 
Name—Saccharwm,sugar; resembling grains of sugar. 
Chislehurst, Kent, and Paul’s Cray Common (Mr. F. 
Currey). 
11. Ascophanus testaceus. (Moug.) 
Gregarious, waxy, sessile, unequal, smooth, depressed 
convex, brick-red; asci broadly clavate; sporidia 8, 
elliptic, epispore granular, 18—20 x 9—11y; paraphyses 
stout, septate, simple, often clavate at the apices, filled 
with granular protoplasm. (Plate IX. fig. 58.) 
Peziza testacea, Moug—Fries, “Elench.,” ii. p. 11. 
Helotvwm testacewm—Berk., “Outl.,” p. 372; and “ Ann. 
Nat. Hist.,” No. 576. Ascobolus testaceus—Berk., “ Ann. 
Nat. Hist.” No. 1082*, t. 14, f 5; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” 
No. 2216. Ascobolus difformis—Nyl., “ Pez. Fenn.,” p. 85. 
Ascophanus difformis—Boud., “ Ascob.,” p. 62. 
Exs.—Rav. No. 2139. 
On old sacking and rabbit-dung. Rather common. 
Cups about 1 line broad. 
Name—Testa, a brick; brick-colour. 
King’s Cliffe (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Bathford (Mr. 
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