182 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Ascozonus Crouani, Renny, in Trans. Woolhope Club, 1873, 

 p. 130, t. 3, figs. 6-10, and in Journ. Bot,, 1874, p. 356, 

 i. 154, figs. 6-10. 



On rabbit dung. 



Ascophores y^, rarely y-J^ of an inch broad, formed of a 

 single layer of subcubical cells, with a single row of sharp, 

 pointed hairs, often roughened at their sides about -J to -J-.of 

 the whole height ; disc plane, granulate ; asci narrower than 

 usual; spores normally 32, oblong-fusiform. To be distin- 

 guished from A. cunicularis by the shorter and tapering rough 

 cilia, as well as by the thinness and transparency of the walls. 

 (Renny.) _ 



No specimen seen by me. 



Ryparobius sexdecemsporus. Sacc., Syll., viii. 

 n. 2241. 



Scattered or gregarious, sessile, subglobose, the disc ex- 

 panding and becoming plane or slightly convex, glabrous, 

 white, then tinged grey, finally yellowish, 1-1-5 mm. across, 

 the hypothecium and excipulum are parenchymatous, cortical 

 cells polygonal, 1416 p. diameter; asci broadly cylindric- 

 clavate, rather abruptly narrowed at the base into a short, 

 stout pedicel, 16-spored ; spores elliptical, ends, blunt, 

 hyaline, 10-12 x 6 p.; paraphyses septate, hyaline, often 

 branched, sometimes curved at the very slightly thickened 

 tips. 



Ascobolus sexdecemsporus, Crouan, Ann. Sci. Nat., 1858, 

 vol. x. p. 195, pi. 13 K, figs. 21-26. 



AscopTianus sexdecemsporus, Boud., Mem. Ascob., p. 57, 

 pi. xi. fig. 35. 



On dung of cow and horse. 



Distinguished from R. Pclletieri by the very much smaller 

 spores having the ends blunt and rounded. 



'* Spores more than 32 in an asciis. 

 f Ascophorc glabrous. 



Ryparobius Cookei. Boud., Ascob., p. 48, pi. ix. 

 fig. 24; Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 299, pi. 9, fig. 57. (figs. 34, 35, 

 p. 156.) 



