174 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



usually oblique pedicel, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate, 

 smooth, hyaline, elliptical, 7-8 x 3-5-4 fx; paraphyses 

 slender, tips subglobose, pale olive-green, 5-6 /x thick. 



Ascobolus microsporia, B. & Br., Ann. Xat. Hist., n. 1087, 

 ser. iii. vol. xv. p. 19, pi. xvi. fig. 28. 



Ascophanus Coemansii, Boud., Ascob., p. 54, pi. x. fig. 30. 



On cow and sheep dung. 



Type specimen examined. 



Differs from A. granuliformis in the tinge of olive in the 

 ascophore, and its generally duller colour, and in the 

 smaller sj)ores. 



Ascophanus granuliformis. Boud., Ascob., p. 55, 

 t. x. f. 31 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 307 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. 

 n. 2200. 



Gregarious or scattered, sessile, globose, then plane or 

 convex, glabrous, pale ochraceous or sometimes almost straw- 

 colour, -J— | mm. across; hypothecium and excipulum paren- 

 chymatous, small-celled and delicate, cells of cortex polygonal, 

 12—18 fx diameter; asci broadly clavate, pedicel slender, very 

 short, often oblique, 8-spored ; spores elliptical, ends obtuse, 

 hyaline, smooth, irregularly 2-seriate, 10-12 x 7-8 fx ; para- 

 physes rather stout, septate ; tips clavate or often knobbed, 

 6-7 fx thick, sometimes tinged with colour. 



Ascobolus granuliformis, Crouan, Ann. Sci. Xat., vol. x. 

 pi. 13, figs. 27-35 (1858). 



On cow dung, 



Specimen examined in Behm's Ascom., n. 104. 



Ascophanus aurora. Boud., Mon. Ascob., p. 58, 

 t. xi., fig. 36; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 308; Sacc, Syll, viii. 

 n. 2193. 



Ascophores minute, scattered, sessile, quite glabrous, 

 shining, at first globose then plane, convex when old, orange- 

 red, conspicuously studded with crystalline points; asci 

 small, clavate, narrowed at the base, 8-spored ; spores 

 irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, elliptical, smooth (10 X 6*5//. 

 Phillips) ; paraphyses slender, septate, simple or 2-3-furcate 

 from near the base, usually curved at the tip, which is not 

 thickened, reddish-orange, especially towards the base. 



Peziza aurora, Crouan, Fl. Finist., p. 53. 



