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16. ASCOPHANUS Boud. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 10: 241. 1869. 



Coprobia Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 1: 107. 1885. 



Plants coprophilous (occurring on the dung of animals or 

 stercoriated mud); apothecia small, rarely exceeding 1-2 mm. 

 in diameter and often less than 1 mm., sessile or short-stipitate, 

 scutellate, externally naked (not clothed with hairs) and smooth 

 or minutely rough, usually bright-colored or more rarely brownish 

 or blackish; hymenium concave, plane or more often strongly 

 convex, leaving the margin indistinct, usually similar in color 

 to the outside of the apothecium; asci cylindric, clavate or ovoid, 

 4-8-spored; spores 1-2-seriate, hyaline or subhyaline, ellipsoid, 

 smooth or minutely rough, in one species apiculate; paraphyses 

 slender below, their ends clavate to subglobose, hyaline or 

 colored. 



Type species, Peziza subfusca Crouan. 



Spores large, 25 ^ or more in length. 

 Apothecia white or whitish. 



Spores remaining permanently smooth. 

 Spores apiculate. 

 Spores not apiculate. 

 Spores becoming rough. 



Spores 18-20 X 25-30 m; spore-sculpturing 



wart-like. 

 Spores 23-25 X 33-38 /i; spore-sculpturing 

 like tack-heads. 

 Apothecia ochraceous-carneous. 

 Spores medium-sized, 10-25 n in length. 

 Apothecia white. 



Asci cylindric; spores 1-seriate. 

 Asci clavate to subovoid; spores 2-seriate. 

 Apothecia colored, reddish, brown, or lilac. 

 Apothecia reddish or orange. 

 Spores 6-8 X 10-12 m- 

 Spores 10-16 X 15-26 m- 



Asci clavate; spores 2-seriate. 

 Asci cylindric or subcylindric; spores 1 

 seriate. 

 Apothecia yellowish to ochraceous. 

 Spores 7-8 X 10-13 n. 

 Spores 8-10 X 15-20 m- 

 Spores 10-11 X 5-6 m- 

 Apothecia cinereous or blackish. 

 Spores 10-12 X 20-24/.. 

 Spores 7-8 X 15-17 /i. 

 Apothecia lilac. 



1. A. Holmskjoldii. 



2. A. isabeUinus. 



3. A. sarcohius. 



4. 



5. 



A. bermudensis. 

 A. vie in us. 



6. A. lacteus. 



7. A. argenteus. 



8. A. Aurora. 



9. A. carneus. 



10. A. granulatus. 



