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B. pilosum Cross!. Naturalist, Jan. 1900, p. 6, pl. 10, figs. 7-13. 
Apothecia scattered, gregarious or crowded, sessile, subglobose, 
becoming plane, margin raised, whitish, 1-1°5 mm., rarely 2 mm. 
broad, the margin and exterior pilose-papillose, silvery-grey above, 
brown at the base; disc blackish-grey ; hairs clavate, 1-2 septate, 
25-30 X 8-10 p, pallid brown with a colourless apex ; hypothecium of 
delicate filaments radiating from the base to the margin, excipulum 
composed of subglobose cells, 7-9 in diam.; asci cylindrical-clavate, 
with a narrow round thickened apex, that stains with iodine, 8-spored, 
70-80 x 8 y, spores 2-seriate above, I-seriate below, fusiform or cyl- 
indrical-fusiform, straight or slightly curved, 3 septate, 18-24 x 2-5 pu; 
paraphyses cylindrical, 3°3-5 w thick. 
n one year old stems and leaves of Carex pendula. Elland, near 
Halifax, May 1890. 
Ascobolus stictordeus Speg. Mich. I., p. 474. 
Ascophores loosely gregarious or scattered, immersed, minute, with 
a torn slightly projecting margin scarcely 4 mm. across, externally 
watery-white, the disc pallid-olivaceous, punctuated by the projecting 
asci; asci few, 5 to 10 in number, 150-160 x 40 p clavate-saccate, 
shortly and thickly stalked, with a thick membrane at the apex, 
8-spored ; paraphyses septate, curved at the apex ; spores bi-seriate 
or irregularly uniseriate ; elliptical, 25x14, at first colourless, 
smooth, then violet, minutely and densely verruculose, becoming 
brownish rose-coloured. 
On dog’s dung. Halifax, Feb. 1899. Coll. Mr. H. T. Soppitt. 
Naturalist, Jan. 1900, p. 8. 
Ascobolus minutus Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. IV., p. XLVII.,; t. Ih, 
f.1. Naturalist, Jan. 1900, p. 8. 
Gregarious or scattered, minute, 0°5-0'7 mm. across, brown, 
obconical or hemispherical, then lenticular, exterior smooth, tawny, 
disc plane or convex, asci slightly projecting, forming black papillae ; 
paraphyses septate, subclavate at the apex, 5-7 m across ; asci minute 
8-spored, 140-170 x 13-14 43 spores minute, elliptical, violet then 
dark brown, longitudinally striate, the lines scarcely anastomosing 
13-15 X 7-9 mM. | ' 
On dog’s dung. Hebden Bridge, July 1899, Mr. Needham. 
The asci being comparatively slender the spores remain uniseriate 
until ejected. 
Gymnoascus ruber van Tiegh. in Bull de la Soc. bot. de F rance, 
Vol. 24, 1877. 
Clusters cushion-shaped, the colour of red sealing wax mostly 
coalescing and forming a continuous layer; hyphae irregularly 
branched, much entangled, with rather delicate walls 3 asci spherical 
