178 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



phores being scattered, the spores smaller, and tlie large, 

 piriform tips of the paraphyses tinged greenish-yellow. 



Ascopharms carneus. Boud., Mem. Ascob., p. 250, 

 pi. 12, fig. 38; Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 309; Sacc, Syll., viii. 

 n. 2216. 



Gregarions or scattered, sessile, usually surrounded at the 

 base by delicate white hyphae, at first globose, then expand- 

 ing until the disc is almost plane, immarginate, glabrous; 

 colour variable, ranging through flesh-red, dingy orange, 

 rosy, and salmon colour; hypothecium and excipulum com- 

 posed of almost spherical hyaline cells, ranging up to 20 jx 

 diameter ; asci clavate, contracted below into a slender, 

 usually curved pedicel, 8-spored; spores hyaline, irregularly 

 2-seriate, continuous, smooth, elliptical, ends obtuse, 18-20 

 X 10-12 /a ; paraphyses septate, tips clavate, containing 

 orange granules, 6 fx across. 



Ascobolus carneus, Pers., Syn. Fung., p. 676. 



Ascophanus carneus, ft cuniculi, Boud., Mem, Ascob., p. 250, 

 pi. 12, fig. 39; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 309; Sacc, Syll., viii! 

 n. 2216. 



Ascophanus saccharinus, Boud., Mem. Ascob., p. 251, pi. 12, 

 fig. 40 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2217. 



Ascophanus carneus, y saccharinus, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 310. 



Ascobolus saccharinus, Berk. & Curr., in Berk., Outl. Fung., 

 p. 374. 



On dung of cow and rabbit, also on old leather, cloth, 

 rope, &c Phillips states that he has seen this species on 

 nettle stems. 



Specimen of Ascobolus carneus, named by Persoon, examined, 

 also Berkeley's type of A. saccharinus. Specimens contained 

 in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 197, Relim, Ascom., n. 425, and Cke., 

 Fung. Brit., ed. ii. n. 398, contain Ascophanus carneus, as here 

 understood. 



Var. testaceus. Mass. 



Gregarious, sessile, at first globose, then expanding and 

 becoming plane or slightly depressed, glabrous, 1-1 ^ mm. 

 across, brick-red to dingy orange ; hypothecium and exci- 

 pulum parenchymatous, cortical cells polygonal, 10-12 /x 

 diameter ; asci large, broadly clavate, narrowed into a some- 



