ASCOPHANUS, 179 



what slender pedicel, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate, 

 hyaline, elliptical, for a long time smooth, then minutely 

 granular, 17-18 x 9-10 p ; paraphyses septate, rather stout, 

 tips clavate, 46 //, broad. 



Ascobolus testaceus, Moug., Wallr. Fl. Crypt., iv. p. 513. 



Ascophanus testaceus, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 310, pi. 9, fig. 58; 

 Sacc., Syll.,.viii. n. 2219. 



On old sacking, linen, also on rabbit and mouse dung. 



Specimen examined in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 98. 



** Ascophorc pilose. 



Ascophanus equinus. Mass. 



Ascophores gregarious, sessile, turbinate, disc becoming 

 plane or slightly convex, orange or tawny-orange, margin 

 smooth and naked, externally sparsely clothed with thick- 

 walled, pointed, aseptate hairs, which are more or less 

 swollen near the base, hyaline or with a yellow tinge; 

 150-225 X 6-8 //,; excipulum parenchymatous, cortical cells 

 large, polygonal, somewhat elongated ; asci narrowly cylin- 

 drical ; curved, and with a slender pedicel when young, the 

 spores at this period obliquely 1 -seriate, ascus afterwards 

 broadly clavate, apex somewhat abruptly narrowed and 

 truncate, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, 

 continuous, smooth, elliptical, ends obtuse, 1822 x 11 13 /A; 

 paraphyses septate, about 2 /JL thick, scarcely or not at all 

 thickened at the tip, often branched upwards, containing 

 orange granules. 



Pcziza equina, Mull., Flor. Dan., tab. 979, fig. 3. 



Lasiobolus equinus, Karst., Eev., p. 122; Sacc., Syll., viii. 

 n. 2224. 



Ascophanus pilosus, Boud., Ascob., p. 64, t. xii. figs. 4244 ; 

 Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 312. 



Ascophanus pilosus, var. ciliatus, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 312. 



On dung of horse, ass, cow, rabbit, &c. 



A very beautiful species ; ovate when young, the disc 

 being entirely closed, and the external hairs pointing 

 upwards in a close bundle; as the disc expands the hairs 

 spread, and have only a slight upward direction. 



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