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BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Distinguished from the preceding genus by the 

 smaller number of sporidia. 



Chiefly inhabiting dung, but occasionally found on 

 vegetable and animal substances. 



Name — aaxog, ascus, (paivu), to appear. 



Arrangement of the Species. 



A. Exterior glabrous. 



(a) Sporidia globose . . . . . . specfes 1 



(b) Sporidia elliptic. 



(a) Eight in ascus .. .. .. „ 2 12 



()8) Sixteen in ascus . . . „ 13 



B. Exterior rugose, granulate . . . . „ 14 

 c. Exterior hairy . . . . . . . . „ 15 



Key to the Species. 

 Brown or fulvous'; margin black 

 Brown ; margin same colour, inflexed 



1 i.t * I ■ * • • • • • • 



Yellow 



Cinereous . . . . . . 



White 



[ Orange-red 



Flesh-colour or rosy-flesh 

 ] Brick -red 



! Pallid-yellow or whitish, rugose 

 Pale yellowish-ochre, translucent, smooth . . 

 Pallid-ochraceous ; paraphyses often curved 

 Yellow testaceus, pilose 

 Silvery-white; paraphyses clavate 

 Milk-white; paraphyses filiform 

 3. ^ Dirty-white or yellowish ; paraphyses globose 

 White, 16 sporidia in ascus 

 .White, spores globose . . 



minutissimus. 



subfuscus. 



1 



2 



cinereous. 



3 



aurora. 



carneus. 



testaceus. 



consociatim. 



granulifonnis. 



ocliraceus. 



pilosus. 



argenteus. 



lacteus. 



microsporia. 



sexdecimsporus. 



Boudieri. 



A. EXTERIOR GLABROUS. 



(a) Sporidia globose 



1. Ascophanus Boudieri. (Renny.) 



Minute, sessile, hemispherical, glabrous, clear white ; 

 hymenium plane, papillate; asci broadly cylindraceo- 

 clavate; sporidia 8, globose, asperate, hyaline; para- 

 physes filiform, stout. 



Ascobolus Boudieri — Renny in litt. cum ico. 



On rabbit-dung. 



The above description is drawn up from a beautiful 



