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6. Ascophanus microsporus. (B. and Br.) 



Very minute, sessile, dirty white or yellowish brown, 

 depressed; asci broadly clavate, often furnished at the 

 base with a little narrow, oblique stem ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, at length violet, smooth, 7'6 X 3'5^u ; paraphyses 

 globose at the apices, tilled with a greenish-yellow 

 endochrome. 



Ascobolus microsporus B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. 

 Hist.," No. 1087, t. 16, f. 28 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 

 2209. Asc. Ccemansii--^oud. ) "Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1869; 

 and " Ascob," p. 54, t. 10, f. 30. 



Exs. Rabh, " Fung. Eur," No. 977. 



On dung of cows and sheep. 



About J to J a line broad. 



" This differs materially from Ascoph. granuliformis 

 in the size of the fruit, which is proportionally narrower ; 

 the colour also is different " (B. and Br., I. c.). 



Name /miKpo^, minute, vwopos, a seed. 



Batheaston (Messrs. Berkeley and Broome). Han- 

 ham, near Bristol ! (Mr. Broome). Forden (Rev. J. E. 

 Vize). Shrewsbury ! 



7. Ascophanus granuliformis. (Crouan.) 



Minute, sessile, globose or hemispherical, pale yellow- 

 ochre, translucent, opaque in the centre, smooth ; asci 

 small, very wide, oblong-ovate, narrowed at the base ; 

 sporidia 8, hyaline, smooth, elliptic, 10 13 X 7'6/n ; para- 

 physes hyaline, septate, simple or branched, pear-shaped 

 at the apices. 



Ascobolus granuliformis Crouan, "Ann. Sc. Nat." 

 (1858), vol. 10, tab. 13, f. 27-35 ; " Flo. Fin," p. 56 ; 

 Cooke, "Jour. Bot.," 1864, f. 5; "Handbk," No. 2208 

 Ascophanus granuliformis Boud, " Ascob," p. 55, t. 10, 

 f. 31 ; "Ann. Sc. Nat," 1869, vol. 10; Pat, p. 74, f. 173. 



Exs. Rabh, " Fung. Eur," nov. ed. No. 782. 



On cow-dung. 



About J to J a line broad. 



