THE GENUS ASCOBOLCS. 153 
23. ASCOBOLUS MACROSPORUS, Crouan; very 
small, of a clear greenish-yellow, smooth, suboylin- 
dric or hemispherical ; hymenium flat; asci large 
and wide, enclosing eight, very large, ovoid spori- 
dia, surrounded by a wide hyaline membrane, pur- 
ple-violet ; paraphyses colourless, filiform ; recep- 
tacle small, the cellules which compose it anasto- 
mose and form a reticulated tissue. . 
Crouan, in Ann. des Se. Nat. 1857, vol. vii. p. 
74, t. 4, 5-8. 
On old cow-dung in the environs of Brest. Fig. 7. 
(Crouan.) On sheep and horse dung. Autumn, 1863. Batheaston. 
(C. E. Broome.) 
Fig. 7. Ascus, sporidia, and paraphyses : magnified 120. 
94. ASCOBOLUS KERVERNI, Crouan; very small (34-75 
inch diameter), fine golden-yellow, sessile, hemispherical, . 
sometimes subcylindrical; hymenium flat or convex; 
asci wide, incurved, enclosing eight elliptical spores, first 
white, then rosy, and finally of a beautiful violet, disposed 
at the summit of the ascus, in an oblong mass, enclosed 
a hyaline membrane; paraphyses simple, filiform, a 
sic thickened at their summit, and of a yellow colour ; 
receptacle composed of a thin filamentous tissue, anasto- 
mosing in a reticulated manner. Fig. 8. 
Cronan, in Ann. des Se. Nat. 1858, vol. x. p. 193. t. 13. f. B 7-11. 
In small groups upon old cow-dung. Bathford. October, 1863. 
(C. E. Broome.) 
Fig. 8. Ascus, sporidia, and paraphyses : magnified 120. 
5. ASCOBOLUS S ,Crouan; white, then 
whitish-grey, at length of a clear yellowish-white, minute, 
sessile, hemispherical ; hymenium flat or slightly convex ; 
asci small, wide, enclosing sixteen, ovoid, hyaline spores ; 
paraphyses numerous, colourless, simple or branched be- 
low, straight or eurved at the apex, where they are a little 
thickened ; receptacle non-gelatinous, composed of very 
small hexagonal cellules. 
Crouan, in Ann. des Se. Nat. 1858, vol. x. p. 195. t. 
13. f. E 21-26. 
Fig. 9. 
