ASCOPHANUS 117 



ally tapering below, reaching a length of 175-200 m and a diameter 

 of 15-17 M, 8-spored; spores 1-seriate, diagonally arranged in 

 the ascus, narrow-ellipsoid, smooth, 7-9 X 14-18 m; paraphyses 

 stout, strongly thickened above, reaching a diameter almost 

 equal to that of the ascus. 



On cow dung. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Connecticut to Iowa, South Carolina and 

 Mexico; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 438, f. 3; Gill. Champ. 

 Fr. Discom. pi. 47, f. 1; Cooke, Mycographia pi. 15, f. 59; ?F1. 

 Dan. pi. 655, f. 2. 



ExsiccATi: Rav. Fungi Am. Exsicc. 630; N. Am. Fungi 



2037. 



11. Ascophanus granuliformis (Crouan) Boud. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 



10: 245. 1869. (Plate 11, fk;. 10.) 

 Ascobolus granuliformis Crouan, Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 10: 195. 1858. 



Apothecia minute, usually less than 1 mm. in diameter, 

 sessile, at first globose, becoming discoid; hymenium pale 

 yellow-ochraceous; asci broad-clavate to ovoid, tapering below, 

 8-spored; spores hyaline, smooth, ellipsoid, 7-8 X 10-13 m; pa- 

 raphyses either simple or branched, hyaline, septate, pear- 

 shaped at their apices. 



On cow dung. 



Type locality: France. 



Distribution: Iowa and Colorado; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 10: pi. 13, f. F; Ann. 

 Sci. Nat. V. 10: pi. 10, f. 31; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. III. 15: 

 pi. 17, f. 31; Jour. Bot. 2: 152,/. 5; Pat. Tab. Fung./. 173. 



ExsiccATi: Clements, Crypt. Form. Colo. 300. 



12. Ascophanus ochraceus (Crouan) Boud. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 10: 



247. 1869. 



Ascobolus ochraceus Crouan, Fl. Finist. 57. 1867. 



?Peziza cremoricolor Berk. Grevillea 3: 151. 1875. 



Ascophanus subgranuliformis Rehm; \oss, \'erh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 37: 



224. 1887. 

 Ascophanus flavus Karst. Medd. Soc. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 16: 105. 1889. 

 ?Humaria cremoricolor Sacc. SyU. Fung. 8: 136. 1889. 



Apothecia thickly gregarious, sessile, at first globose or sub- 

 globose, expanding and becoming subdiscoid, pale-yellow, ex- 



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