Massee and Cross/and: New British Discomycetes. 179 



narrowed, brown with iodine, 8-spored, 50-55 x 6-7 fi ; spores 

 2-seriate, hyaline, continuous, smooth, elliptical, 6-8 x 3-3*5 \> \ 

 paraphyses filiform. 



Entire substance of ascophore formed of interwoven hyphae 

 tinged yellow. 



On dry branches of Sarothamnus scoparius, Scarborough, 

 Yorks. N.K. (G. Massee). 



The bright lemon-yellow primrose exterior is not mentioned 

 by Fuckel ; this, however, becomes washed away, leaving - the 

 surface brown or ding - }'. 



Allied to Cenangium leoninum Cke. & Mass., which differs 

 in the csespitose, stipitate ascophores, and the minutely velvety 

 exterior. 



Boudiera Crosslandi Massee. Ascobolus (Sphwridiobolus) 

 Crosslandi Boudier, Bull. Soc. Myc. France, XIV., pp. 

 126-7; 'The Naturalist,' January 1899, pp. 29-30, figs. 

 9- J 3- 



On dog's dung-, Halifax. 



Boudier described the present species under the genus Asco- 

 bolus, where, on account of its globose spores, it cannot remain, 

 but conforms in all essentials with the genus Boudiera, charac- 

 terised as follows: — Boudiera Cooke, Grev. VI., 76 (1877). 

 Ascophore fleshy, orbicular, asci at maturity exserted ; spores 

 globose, coloured ; paraphyses present. 



Distinguished by the globose, coloured spores. 



Ascobolus stictoideus Speg., Mich. I., p. 474; Crossl., 'The 

 Naturalist,' January 1900, p. 8. 



Scattered, almost immersed, margin only free, mm. 

 across ; disc brownish, dotted with the protruding asci at 

 maturity ; asci few, broadly clavate, operculate, base stout, 

 150-190x40-45 (i, 8-spored ; spores irregularly biseriate at first, 

 becoming aggregated at the apex of the ascus when mature ; 

 elliptical, hyaline, then lilac-purple, finally tinged hrown, the 

 epispore breaking up into areolae, 28-30 x 14 ; paraphyses 

 hyaline, simple or branched, 4 \i thick, apex scarcely thickened 

 and very slightly curved. 



On dog's dung, Halifax. 



The ascophores are almost entirely immersed in the matrix, 

 very little more than the margin and disc being visible. The 

 mature projecting asci are very conspicuous before the ejection 

 of the spores. Compared with a specimen from Spegazzini in 

 1 lie Kew Herbarium. 



i<)oi June 1. 



