RYPAROBIUS. 



209 



size of the receptacle and the colourless and numerous 

 sporidia. 



Name — pvirapoc, dirty, fiiog, life ; living on dung. 



Arranofment of the Species, 

 a. Exterior of cup smooth. 



(a) Margin not ciliated . 



(b) Margin ciliat< d 



b. Exterior hairy 



species 1-2 

 „ 3-5 

 „ 6-8 



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2. 



Key to the SrECiEs. 



Exterior fulvous 

 Exterior white 

 Sporidia elliptic 

 Sporidia fusiform 

 Margin fringed; sporidia 16-24 

 Margin ciliated; sporidia 128 

 Margin not ciliated . . 

 Exterior hairy ; sporidia 64 

 Hairs on margin only 

 Hairs short, irregular; sporidia 64-96 

 Hairs short, rough ; sporidia 32 

 Hairs soft ; sporidia 64 ; cups globose, then ap 

 planate 



CooJcei. 



1 



2 



3 



parvisporus. 



subhirtus. 



dubius. 



Woolhopensis. 



4 



Levielleanus. 



Crouani. 



argenteus. 



A. EXTERIOR OF GUP SMOOTH. 



(a) Margin not ciliated. 



1. Ryparobius CooJcei. (Crouan.) 



Very much crowded, rarely scattered, extremely 

 minute, hemispherical, glabrous, fulvous, paler at the 

 base ; margin irregularly paler ; hymenium plane, whitish 

 or pallid-fulvous, papillate from the exserted asci; sporidia 

 64, oblong-elliptic, hyaline, scarcely acute, 8 — 10 4 — b/m; 

 paraphyses scarce, hyaline, septate, scarcely thickened at 

 the apices. (Plate IX. fig. 57.) 



Ascobolus Cookei — Crouan, "Flo. Finn.," p. 56, fig. 3 ; 

 Cooke, " Grevillea," i. p. 132. Ryparobius Cookei — Boud., 

 " Ascob.," p. 48, t. 9, f. 24. Ascobolus myriadeus — Karst., 

 "Fung. Fenn.," exs. No. 552. Ascobolus polysporus — 

 Auers. in " Hedwig.," 1868, p. 51. Ascobolus crustaceus 

 — Fckl., "Symb. Myco./' p. 288; Karst., " Mon. Pez.," 

 p. 208 ; Peziztda Crustacea — Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 81. 



