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BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Distinguished from the preceding genus by the 

 smaller number of sporidia. 



Chiefly inhabiting dung, but occasionally found on 

 veetable and animal substances. 



Name 



ascus, 



to appear. 



ARRANGEMENT OP THE SPECIES. 



A. Exterior glabrous. 



(a) Sporidia globose . . . . 

 (&) Sporidia elliptic. 



(a) Eight in ascus . . 



(/3) Sixteen in ascus 



B. Exterior rugose, granulate 

 c. Exterior hairy 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Brown or fulvous ; margin black 



Brown ; margin same colour, in flexed 



Red 



Yellow . . 



Cinereous 



White .. 

 j Orange-red 



1. < Flesh-colour or rosy-flesh 

 ( Brick-red 



! Pallid-yellow or whitish, rugose 

 Pale yellowish-ochre, translucent, smooth . . 

 Pallid-ochraceous ; paraphyses often curved 

 Yellow testaceus, pilose 

 (Silvery- white ; paraphyses clavate 

 [Milk-white; paraphyses filiform 

 3. <| Dirty-white or yellowish ; paraphyses globose 

 | White, 16 sporidia in ascus .. 

 (.White, spores globose 



species 1 



2 12 

 13 

 14 

 15 



minutissimus. 



subfuscus. 



1 



2 



cinereous. 



3 



aurora. 



carneus. 



testaceus. 



consociatus. 



granulifonnis. 



ochraceus. 



pilosus. 



argenteus. 



lacteus. 



microsporus. 



sexdpcimsporus. 



Boudieri. 



A. EXTERIOR GLABROUS. 



(a) Sporidia globose 

 1. Ascophanus Boudieri. (Renny.) 



Minute, sessile, hemispherical, glabrous, clear white ; 

 hymenium plane, papillate; asci broadly cylindraceo- 

 clavate; sporidia 8, globose, asperate, hyaline; para- 

 physes filiform, stout. 



Ascobolus Boudieri Henny in litt. cum ico. 



On rabbit- -dung. 



The above description is drawn up from a beautiful 



