152 THE GENUS ASCOBOLUS. 
Pers. Obs. i. t. 4. f. 7; Syn. p. 667; Fr. Sys. Myc. ii. p. 164; 
Berk. Eng. Fl. v. p. 209; Outl. p. 374; Cooke, Ind. Fung. Brit. n. 
1892 
On cow-dung. Autumn. (Berk.) On rabbits’ dung. Autumn, 
1863. Bathford and Ascot. (C. E. Broome.) 
Fig. 4. Ascus and sporidia, magnified, with sporidium still further magnified. 
15. AscOBOLUS CARNEUS, Pers.; gregarious, minute, sessile, plane, 
immarginate, smooth, flesh-coloured. 
Pers. Syn. p. 676; Fr. Sys. Myc. ii. p. 165; Berk. Outl. Fung. p. 
374; Cooke, Iud. Fung. Brit. n. 1894. 
On cow-dung. Autumn. 
17. ASCOBOLUS JERUGINEUS, Fr. ; gregarious, sessile, nearly plane, 
marginate, smooth, greenish. 
Fries, Obs. ii. p. 310; Sys. Myc. ii. p. 164. 4. marginatus, Schum. 
Saell. ii. p. 43 7 
horse-dung. August. Mr. Broome finds an Ascobolus near 
Bath, which he considers to be this species. 
18. ASCOBOLUS GRANULIFORMIS, Crouan ; ‘sessile, 
spherical, pale yellow-ochre, translucent, opaque in the 
centre, smooth ; asci very small, wide, enclosing eight, 
hyaline, oval sporidia ; paraphyses colourless, thickened 
into a club-shape at their apex; receptacle formed by 
an anastomosing, reticulated, filamentous tissue of an 
extreme thinness 
Crouan, in Ann. des Sc. Nat. 1858, vol. x. p. 196. 
t. 13. f. 27-31. 
Common on cow-dung, in October and November, Fig. 5. 
1863. (C. E. Broome.) 
Fig. 5. Ascus, sporidia, and paraphysis : magnified 120. 
-20. ASCOBOLUS ARGENTEUS, Curr. ; 
gregarious, exceedingly minute, barely 
visible to the naked eye, subpyriform, of 
a silvery-white colour; sporidia elliptical, 
colourless, 0:0005 jade long. 
F. Currey, in litt. ; 
On cow-dung, Eltham. November, Fig. 6. 
1863. (C. E. Broome.) 
Fig. 6. Asci and sporidia: magnified 430. 
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