308 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



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

 grain. 



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



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/z; 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. Ascophamis 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 Broome). 



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/u ; 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). 



