180 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



EYPAEOBIUS. Boud. (emended.) (figs. 34, 35, p. 150.) 



Ascophore minute, sessile, at first subs^lobose, the disc 

 expanding until plane or sliglitly convex, fleshy, glabrous or 

 ciliated at the margin ; excipulum parenchymatous, cortical 

 cells irregularly polygonal, large ; asci broadly cylindric- 

 olavate, dehiscing by an apical operculum, protruding above 

 the level of the disc at maturity, 1 6-many-spored ; spores 

 hyaline, smooth, elongated, in some species aggregated in a 

 cluster near the top of the ascus before dehiscence ; para- 

 physes present. 



Byparohius, Boud., Ascob., p. 47 (in part) ; Phil., Brit. 

 Disc, p. 29S (in part) ; Sacc, Sj'lL, viii. p. 539. 



Thecotheus, Boud., Ascob., p. 45; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 297. 



Ascozonus, Kenny. 



Distinguished at once by the asci containing 16 or more 

 hyaline spores. 



* Spores not more than 32 in an ascus. 



Ryparobius Pelletieri, Sacc, Mich., i. p. 605 ; SylL, 

 viii. n. 2243. (fig. 38, p. 156.) 



Ascophores scattered or gregarious, cylindrical or sub- 

 globose at first, then expanding until the disc is quite plane, 

 white, or -with a very slight grey or rosy tinge, delicately 

 pruinose on the outside, |-1 aim. across ; excipulum paren- 

 chymatous ; asci broadly cylindric-clavate, pedicel short, 

 stout, often oblique, 32-spored, projecting prominently 

 above the level of the disc ; spores elliptical, ends somewhat 

 pointed, smooth, hyaline, vrall rather thick, 26-32 x 

 14-16 /x; paraphyses septate, hyaline, slender, often branched 

 from near the base, tips only very slightly thickened, longer 

 than the asci. 



Ascoholus Pelletieri, Crouan, Fl. Finist., p. 56. 



Thecotheus Pelletieri, Boud., Ascob., p. 46, t. 9, fig. 22 ; Phil. 

 Brit. Disc, p. 297, pi. ix., fig. 56. 



On dung of horse, cow, sheep, and dog. 



Distinguished among species having more than 8 spores in 

 an ascus, by the large asci, which project for about half 



