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10. Ascophanus carneus. (Pers.) 



Scattered or rarely crowded, minute, sessile, flesh- 

 colour or rosy flesh-colour, glabrous, at first globose, then 

 flattened ; hymenium convex, papillate, immarginate ; 

 asci broadly clavate, attenuated below, hyaline, or almost 

 rosy ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, or sometimes minutely 

 granular, hj^aline, each when young surrounded by 

 gelatine, 18 x 10yu; paraphyses stout, clavate at the 

 apices, septate. 



Ascobolus carneus — Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 676 ; Fries, 

 "Sys. Myco," ii. p. 165; Berk, " Outl," p. 374 ; Karst, 

 "Pez. et Ascob," p. 44; and "Mon. Pez," p. 120; Nyl, 

 "Pez. Fenn," p. 86; Cooke, "Jour. Bot," 1864; and 

 "Handbk," No. 2213; B. and Br, "Ann. Nat. Hist," 

 No. 1085*, t. 17, f. 29; Gill, "Champ," p. 143. Asco- 

 phanus carneus — Boud, "Ann. Sc. Nat," 1869, x. t. 12, 

 f. 38; and "Ascob," p. 60, c. i. ; Pat, p. 172, f. 379. 



Exs.— Fckl, "F. Rh," No. 1857; Rav, "Fung. Am," 

 176; Ellis, "N. A. Fungi," 853. 



On cow-dung, rotting cloth, and hempen cord. 

 Autumn. 



About J to | of a line broad. Generally seated on a 

 white mycelium. 



Name — Caro, flesh ; flesh-colour. 



Ford en, Montgomeryshire, on nettle-stems ! Forres, 

 N.B, on cow-dung ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Lynn, on cloth ! 

 (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



Var. /3. cuniculi. Boud, "Ascob," t. 12, f. 39. 



Dirty orange or orange flesh-colour, J a line broad, 

 scattered or crowded. Paraphyses always hyaline. 



Phil, and Plow, "Grevillea," ii. p. 187; Pat, p. 172, 

 f. 380. 



Exs.— Cooke, " Fung. Brit," ed. ii. No. 398. 



On rabbit-dung. December. 



Name — Cuniculus, a rabbit's burrow; from the 

 habitat. 



Near Shrewsbury ! 



