176 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Ascophanus argenteus. Boud., Mem. Ascob., p. 55, 

 t. 11, fig. 32; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 306; Sacc, SylL, viii. 

 n. 2159. 



Gregarious, minute, not exceeding J mm. across, sessile, 

 ■disc almost plane and becoming narrowed downwards, 

 glabrous, soft and translucent when moist, silvery white ; 

 excipulum parenchymatous, cells polygonal, 7-10 /m diameter, 

 asci broadly clavate, slenderly but shortly stipitate, 8-spored ; 

 sj)ores irregularly 2-seriate, elliptical, hyaline, smooth, 

 11-12 X 6-7 fx; paraphyses septate, hyaline, slender, clavate 

 at the tip. 



Ascobolus argenteus, Currey in Cooke's article on Ascobolus, 

 in Journ. Bot., 1864, fig. 6. 



On cow dung. 



Type specimen examined. 



A very minute species, looking like pellucid silvery drops 

 under a lens. 



Ascophanus ochraceus. Boud., Ascob., p. 57, t. 11, 

 fig. 34; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 311 ; Sacc, SylL, n. 2201. 



Somewhat gregarious or scattered, sessile, almost globose 

 at first, disc becoming plane or convex, rather fleshy, glabrous, 

 ochraceous, sometimes pale, about 1 mm. across ; cortical cells 

 polygonal, 10-12 /x diameter; asci clavate, apex somewhat 

 narrowed, narrowed into a somewhat slender pedicel, 8-spored; 

 spores irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, smooth, elliptical, 15-16 

 X 9 fi ; paraphyses slender, hyaline, septate, tips thickened 

 and usually curved. 



Ascobolus ochraceous, Crouan, Flor. Finist., p. 57. 



On old cow dung, rare on sheep dung. 



Specimen examined in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 140. The 

 specimen — in the Kew copy — in Cke., Fung. Brit., ed. ii., 

 n. 559, called Ascophanus ochraceous, is typical Ascophanus 

 <jranuliformis. 



Superficially resembling A. granuliformis, but distinguished 

 by the larger spores, and the paraphyses being curved at the 

 tips. 



Ascophanus subfuscus. Boud., Ascob., p. 52, pi. 10, 

 fig. 28 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 305 ; Sacc, SylL, viii. n. 2209. 

 Crowded or more rarely scattered, sessile, hemispherical, 



