ASCOPHANUS. 805 



drawing sent me by Mr. Renny, but I regret to say no 

 indication of the magnifying power is given, so that I 

 am unable to supply the measurements of the sporidia. 



Name After E. Boudier. 



Hereford (Mr. James Renny). 



(b) Sporidia elliptic. 

 2. AscopTianus subfuscus. Boud. 



Crowded, rarely scattered, very minute, hemispherical; 

 externally glabrous, brown, paler at the base, when dry 

 black-brown, with an irregular inflexed margin ; hyrne- 

 nium plane, pale or pale fulvous ; asci short, broadly 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, subfusiform, hyaline, 

 10 x 5/j.f paraphyses broadly clavate and brown at the 



apices. 



AscopTianus subfuscus Boud., "Ascob.," p. 52, t. 10, 

 fig. xxviii. ; " Scott. Nat.," i. (new series) 87. 



Kxs. Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," ed. ii. No. 657. 



On cow-dung. 



Receptacles, according to Boudier, -f Q to i mm. (100 

 to 2()0/.i) broad. 



The specimens referred to the above species agree in 

 size and external characters, but not in habitat ; nor, 

 indeed, can it be said of the sporidia that they are sub- 

 fusiform. 



Shrewsbury ! 



3. AscopTianus minutissimus. Boud. 



Very minute, hardly visible under a lens, always 

 scattered, hemispherical or applanate, brown or fulvous ; 

 hymenium the same colour; margin black; asci rather 

 broad, small, hyaline, attenuated at the base ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, subfusiform, hyaline, smooth, 7 X 4^u ; paraphyses 

 Dimple, pyriform at the apices, yellow-green, hyaline at 

 the base. 



Ascophanus minutissimus Boud., :< Ascob.," p. 53, 

 t. 10, f. 29. 



On horse-dung. 



