g2 NATURAL HISTORY BULLETIN 



*Ascophanus cinereus (Crouan) Boud., Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 

 10: 249. 1869. 



Plate 28, f. i. 



Ascobolus cinereus Crouan. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 10: 194. 1858. 



Grown on horse-dung in culture in the laboratory, also since 

 collected in the field. 



The species is quite easily distinguished from any of the 

 other forms described here by the cinereous or blackish color of 

 the plants. 



During the fall of 1906 a fine collection of this species was 

 made on horse-dung in a wet swampy place in North Dakota. 



*Ascophanus testaceus (Moug.) Phill., Brit. Discom. 310. 

 1887. 



Plate 27, f. i. 



Peziza testacea Moug. ; Fries, Elench. Fung. 2 : 11. 1827. 

 Ascobolus testaceus Berk. & Br., Not. Brit. Fungi, No. 1082. 

 Ascobolus testaceus Berk. & Br.. Not. Brit, Fungi, No. 1980. 

 (Reprint from Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1865). 



Abundant collections w T ere made on old sacking, building pa- 

 per and cloth. 



The color of these plants varies according to conditions ; they 

 are generally bright red but often pale. The color becomes 

 brighter as the plants dry. A piece of old sacking found near 

 the experiment station at Lafayette, Indiana, was almost entire- 

 ly covered with the plants of this species. It was also found on 

 heavy building paper in a damp place. 



During the fall of 1905 this species was collected in good 

 quantity on old building paper and sacking at Mt. Pleasant, 

 Iowa, and during the autumn of 1906 the same species was 

 again collected on a similar habitat in North Dakota. 



Ascophanus carneus (Pers.) Boud., Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 10: 

 250. 1869. (Reprint p. 59). 



Ascobolus carneus Pers., Syn. Fung., 676. 1801. 



Scattered or rarely crowded, minute, sessile, flesh-red, smooth. 



