308 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Name Granum, a grain, forma, form ; like a small 

 grain. 



Batheaston (Mr. C. E. Broome). Shrewsbury I 



8. Ascophanus aurora. (Crouan.) 



Scattered, minute, orange-red, shining, flattened 5 

 hymenium plane or convex, when old covered with 

 crystalline papillae ; asci clavate, attenuated at the base ; 

 sporidia elliptic, hyaline, smooth, 10 x 6'5^t; paraphyses 

 filiform, slender, simple, bifid, or trifid, curved, filled with 

 orange granules. 



Peziza aurora Crouan, " Ann. Sc. Nat.," ser. 5, vol. 

 10, t. 11, f. 36. Ascophanus aurora Boud., "Ascob.," 

 p. 58, t. 11, f. 36 ; Cooke, "Grevillea/' i. p. 132. 



On cow-dung. February. 



Cups J to f of a line broad. 



Name Aurora, the morning ; from the ruddy colour. 



Eltham, Kent (Messrs. Berkeley and Broonie). 



9. Ascophanus cinereus. (Crouan.) 



Scattered or scarcely crowded, at first globose, sub- 

 urceolate, and marginate, then expanded, hymenium 

 becoming plane or convex ; externally pruinose, cinereous 

 or cinereous-fulvous ; asci broadly clavate, attenuated at 

 the base; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, hyaline, epispore 

 rough with granules, 20 x 9/x ; paraphyses filiform, 

 slender, simple, septate. 



Ascobolus cinereus Crouan, " Ann. Soc. Nat.," vol. 10, 

 p. 194, t. 13 D, f. 17-20 ; and " Flo. Fin.," p. 56 ; Coemans, 

 "Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg.," i. p. 88, No. 6; and " Spicilege," 

 p. 15, No. 6; Kickx., "Flo. Flan," i. p. 477; B. and Br., 

 "Ann. Nat. Hist," No. 1085, t. 17, f. 30; Cooke, 

 " Handbk," No. 2212. Ascophanus cinereus Boud., 

 "Ascob," p. 59, t. 11, f. 37. 



About 200 to 400,u broad. 



Name Cinis, ashes; ash-colour. 



Weybridge, Surrey ! (in the herbarium of the late 

 Mr. F. Currey). 



