ASCOPHANUS. 1 77 



disc plane, rather fleshy, glabrous, brown, when dry blackish- 

 brown, concave and with the margin irregularly incurred, 

 about J mm. across ; excipulum parenchymatous, cells, like 

 those of the cortex, small ; asci clavate, tapering uniformly 

 from apex to base, 8-spored ; spores at first 1-seriate, becoming 

 irregularly 2-seriate above, hyaline, smooth, elliptical, 9-10 

 X 4*5-5 fx; paraphyses septate, slender, clavate or piriform 

 at the apex, which is tinged brown when living, 5-6 fx 

 broad. 



On dung of cow and dog. Has also been found on human 

 dung in Germany. 



Specimen examined in Cke., Fung. Brit., ed. ii. n. 657. 



Ascophanus consociatus. Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 312; 

 Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2221. 



Ascophores gregarious, sessile, subglobose then expanding 

 until the disc is almost plane, whitish, often with a tinge of 

 yellow, externally granulated owing to the large, projecting, 

 cortical cells, which vary from 15-20 jjl diameter, about 1 mm. 

 across ; excipulum parenchymatous ; asci broadly clavate, 

 pedicel short, stout, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate, 

 hyaline, smooth, broadly fusiform, contents granular, 11-12 

 X 7 fx ; paraphyses septate, hyaline, very slightly thickened 

 at the tips. 



Ascobolus consociatus, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, 

 vol. xv. p. 39, pi. 2, fig. 7. 



On decayed wood, on the remains of Spliaeria cupulifera. 



Type specimen examined. 



Ascophanus minutissimus. Boud., Ascob., p. 53, 

 t. 10, f. 29; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 305; Sacc, Syll., viii. 

 n. 2212. (figs. 36, 37, p. 156.) 



Very minute, hardly visible under a lens, always scattered, 

 hemispherical, disc plane, brown or tawny, margin blackish ; 

 asci broad, narrowed towards the base, 8-spored ; spores 

 smooth, hyaline, elliptical, ends rather pointed, 7 and 4 //, 

 irregularly 2-seriate ; paraphyses simple, septate, broadly 

 pyriform and greenish-yellow at the tips. 



On dung of horses and sheep. 



Unknown to me. 



Somewhat resembling A. subfuscus, differing in the asco- 



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