312 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Hanham, near Bristol (Mr. C. E. Broome). Hereford- 
shire! (Mr. Renny). Church Stretton, Salop! 
14. Ascophanus consociatus. (B. and Br.) 
Cups gregarious, subhemispherical ; externally rugose, 
granulated, pallid-yellow or whitish; asci broadly cla- 
vate, short; sporidia 8, biseriate, broadly fusiform, 
granular within, 10 x 6u; paraphyses filiform. 
Ascobolus consociatus—B. and Br., “ Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
No. 1491, t. 2, f. 7; “Grevillea,” iii. p. 123. 
On the remains of Spheria cupulifera, on wood. 
Cups 100 to 150u broad. The sporidia are very 
faintly tinted with yellow, and coarsely granular within. 
Name—Consocio, to associate; gregarious. 
Langridge (Mr. C. E. Broome). 
15. Ascophanus pilosus. (Fries.) 
Minute, sessile, yellow, testaceous-yellow or tawny- 
orange ; externally pilose, with long pallid or yellowish, 
nonseptate hairs, incrassated near the base; hymenium 
papillate, margin naked ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, hyaline, 
oblong-elliptic, smooth, 20 x 10u; paraphyses slender, 
septate, simple or branched, hyaline, but filled with 
orange-yellow granules. 
Ascobolus pilosus—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 164; 
“ Summa Veg. Scan.,” p. 358; Crouan, “Flo. Fin.,” p. 55; 
Nyl., “ Pez. Fenn.,” p. 86; Cooke, “ Grevillea,” iv. p. 112. 
Peziza equina, Muell, var. pilosa—K arst., “ Myco. Fenn.,” 
p. 73. Ascophanus pilosus—Boud., “ Ascob.,” p. 64, t. xii, 
42-44; Pat., p. 211, f. 487. 
On grouse-dung. 
Cups 100u broad. Referred to A. pilosus asa variety, 
but the specimens were more minute than usual, scarcely 
visible to the naked eye (M. C. Cooke). 
Name—Pilosus, hairy. 
Rannock, N.B. (Dr. Buchanan White). 
Var. ciliatus. (B. and Br.) 
Sessile, subhemispherical, smooth, orange ; hymenium 
plane; margin swollen, white, not ciliated; furnished 
