116 The North American Cup-Fungi 



or rarely as large as 2 mm., flesh-colored, the color becoming 

 brighter in dried specimens; hymenium at first concave, becoming 

 convex, similar in color to the outside of the apothecium but a 

 little brighter, roughened by the protruding asci; excipulum 

 giving rise above to a palisade of mycelium the loose ends of 

 which form a very delicate fringe-like border, the ends of the 

 peridial mycelium reaching a diameter of 12-15 m; asci rather 

 broad-clavate, reaching a length of 200-300 ^ and a diameter 

 of 25-40 /x, tapering below into a stem-like base, 8-spored; 

 spores 2-seriate above or becoming irregularly crowded, ellipsoid, 

 hyaline, at first smooth, becoming sculptured, 11-12 X 17-20 m, 

 or rarely 14-16 X 24-26 m; spore-sculpturing consisting of very 

 minute warts barely roughening the surface of the spore; paraph- 

 yses septate, stout, enlarged at their apices, where they reach 

 a diameter of 7-8 fx, densely filled with orange granules. 



On dung of various kinds. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to North Dakota, Florida, Colo- 

 rado, Bermuda and Porto Rico; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. III. 15: pi. 14, f. 5; 

 Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 10: pi. 12, f. 38-40; Rab. Krypt.-Fl. 1'^: 1080, 

 /. 1-5; Pat. Tab. Fung. /. 379; Trans. Linn. Soc. 24: pi. 51, 

 f. 20. 



A specimen grown on dung from Porto Rico shows asci 40 

 X 300 M and spores 14 X 26 m; otherwise it appears to be typical 

 of A. carneus. 



10. Ascophanus granulatus (Bull.) Speg. Michelia 1: 235. 1879. 

 (Plate 11, iir, 12.) 



?Peziza scahra Miill. Fl. Dan. 11: 7. 1775. 



Peziza grantdata Bull. Herb. Fi . pi. 438, f. 3. 1789. 



Peziza granulosa Pers. Syn. Fung. 667. 1801. 



Ascobolus granulatus Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 287. 1869. 



Aleuria granulata Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 56. 1879. 



Humaria granulata Quel. Ench. Fung. 290. 1886. 



Coprohia granulata Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 69. 1907. 



Apothecia gregarious or crowded, at first closed and sub- 

 globose, expanding and becoming scutellate to subdiscoid, ex- 

 ternally pale-orange, coarsely granulose, reaching a diameter of 

 1-3 mm., color fading in dried specimens to nearly white; 

 hymenium slightly concave to plane, orange, brighter than the 

 outside of the apothecium; asci cylindric or subcylindric, gradu- 



