178 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



phores being scattered, the spores smaller, and the large, 

 piriform tips of the paraphyses tinged greenish-yellow. 



Ascophanus carneus. Bond., Mem. Asoob., p. 250, 

 pi. 12, fig. 38; Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 309; Sacc, Syll., viii. 

 n. 2216. 



Gregarious or scattered, sessile, usually surrounded at the 

 base by delicate white hyphae, at first globose, then expand- 

 ing until the disc is almost piano, immarginate, glabrous ; 

 colour variable, ranging through flesh-red, dingy orange, 

 rosy, and salmon colour ; hypothecium and excipiilum com- 

 posed of almost spherical hyaline cells, ranging up to 20 /x 

 diameter ; asci clavate, contracted below into a slender, 

 usually curved pedicel, 8-spored ; spores hyaline, irregularly 

 2-seriate, continuous, smooth, elliptical, ends obtuse, 18-20 

 X 10-12 fj, ; paraphyses septate, tips clavate, containing 

 orange granules, 6 /jl across. 



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



Ascophanus carneus, /S cuniculi, Boud., Mem, Ascob., p. 250, 

 pi. 12, fig. 39; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 309; Succ, Syll., viii. 

 n. 2216. 



Ascophanus saccharinus, Boud., Mem. Ascob., p. 251, pi. 12, 

 fig. 40; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2217. 



Ascophanus carneus, y saccharinus, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 310. 



Ascobolus saccharinus. Berk. & Curr., in Berk., Outl. Fung., 

 p. 374. 



On dung of cow and rabbit, also on old leather, cloth, 

 rope, &c. Phillips states that he has seen this species ou 

 nettle stems. 



Specimen of Ascobolus carneus, named by Persoon, examined, 

 also Berkeley's type of A. saccharinus. Specimens contained 

 in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 197, Eehm, Ascom., n. 425, and Cke., 

 Fung. Brit., ed. ii. n. 398, contain Ascophanus carneus, as hero 

 understood. 



Var. testaceus. Mass. 



Gregarious, sessile, at first globose, then expanding and 

 becoming plane or slightly depressed, glabrous, 1-1 J mm. 

 across, brick-red to dingy orange; hypothecium and exci- 

 pulum parenchymatous, cortical cells polygonal, 10-12 /a 

 diameter ; asci large, broadly clavate, narrowed into a some- 



