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NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
The byssoid subiculum extends for two or three inches, on which 
are crowded myriads of minute cups, the whole black to the naked 
eye, dotted with small rings, which indicate the paler mouths of the 
cups. An elegant species, reminding one of Tapesia fusca , but 
much smaller. 
Ascobolus asininus, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Scattered or gregarious, hemispherical or sub-depressed, watery, 
fleshy, at first umbilicate, then open, with a thick margin, indis- 
tinctly rugulose, pale olive green or amber, or a combination of both. 
Asci broadly clavate, octosporous, sporidi a elliptical, at first colour- 
less, at length reddish brown, epispore thick, finally minutely 
cracked into subhexagonal minute areolas, paraphyses very long, 
filiform, flexuous, much longer than the asci. 
On asses’ dung. Kew. 
Cups 1-2 m.m. diam., asci 160-170 x 45-50 p, sporidia 40-45 
x 21-23 p. 
Cenangium acicolum, Fckl. 
Gregarious, erumpent, top shaped, very shortly and thickly 
stipitate, externally yellow-brown, smooth, when dry mealy and 
convolute, between waxy and leathery, disc nearly plane, of the 
same colour, with a paler margin, asci clavate, octosporous, sporidia 
ellipsoid, straight, continuous, hyaline 12-14 x 3^-4 p, paraphyses 
filiform, a little thickened upwards and yellowish brown. — Sacc. 
Syll. 2314. 
On leaves of Scotch fir. Carlisle. 
Cenangium leoninum, Cke. 8f Mass. 
Csespitose, subcoriaceous, stipitate. Cups at first turbinate, 
then expanded, 1-4 m.m. broad, stem penetrating, branched, ex- 
panding into the base of the cups, where it is radiately rugose, 
whole external surface golden brown or tawny orange, furfura- 
ceously velvety, from the projecting septate cells of the exciple, 
disc at first poriseform, then expanded and plane, pale chestnut 
brown, margin connivent when dry. Asci cylindrical, stipitate, 
octosporous, sporidia ellipsoid, binucleate, continuous, hyaline, 9-10 
X 4 p, paraphyses filiform. 
On hard decorticated wood. Carlisle. 
An elegant species, stem 10-15 m.m. long in some specimens 
and proliferous. The external hairs are about two septate, the 
diameter and length equal. 
Dermatea umbxina, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Csespitose, erumpent, comparatively large, cups turbinate, tawny, 
then cinnamon, mealy, soon expanded and flexuous, disc umber, 
plane, nearly black when dry. Asci cylindrical, sporidia ellipsoid, 
at first nucleate, then faintly tinged with brown, 15-16 x 7 p , 
paraphyses linear. 
On dead branches of Ulex. Carlisle. 
Cups 1-2 m.m. broad. Stem very short, attenuated downwards, 
almost obsolete. 
