ASCOPHANUS. 308 
narrowed at the base, somewhat abruptly, to a point; 
sporidia about 128 (not less), elliptic, hyaline, smooth, 
collected at length into an ovoid mass in the upper part 
of the ascus; paraphyses not seen. 
Ascozonus subhirtus—Renny in “Trans. Woolhope 
Club,” 1873, p. 181, t. 2, f. 4-7; and “Jour. Bot.,” 1874, 
p. 357, t. 155, f. 4-7. 
On rabbit-dung. Autumn. 
Name—Sub, somewhat, hirtus, hairy. 
Hereford (Mr. James Renny). 
8. Ryparobius parvisporus. (Renny.) 
Very minute, fragile, somewhat more fleshy than 
other species, white and brilliant at first, then duller, 
with a faintly vinous tinge; substance formed of bladdery 
polygonal cells, unequal in size, and often projecting in 
hair-like threads; margin unevenly fringed with some- 
what roughened subulate hairs, often in a partly double 
row; hymenium at first flat, then filled with the 
prominent, broadly clavate asci; sporidia 16 to 24, 
elliptic, hyaline, smooth; paraphyses filiform, stout, 
septate. 
Ascozonus parvisporus—Renny in “Trans. Woolhope 
Club,” 1873, p. 131, t. 3, f 1-5; and “Jour. Bot.,” 1874, 
p. 356, t. 156, f. 1-5. 
On rabbit-dung. Autumn. 
Name—Parvus, small, sporus, a spore. 
Hereford (Mr. James Renny). 
Genus VI.—AscopHanus. Boud. 
Receptacle sessile, pilose, pruinose, or glabrous; 
hymenium plane or convex, rarely marginate; asci broadly 
clavate, or rarely oblong-ovate; hyaline or very faintly 
coloured, opening by a conspicuous, rotund, often recurved 
operculum ; sporidia 8 or 16, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 
hyaline or at the most very faintly tinted, when young 
singly surrounded with gelatine, smooth or rarely very 
minutely punctate. (Plate IX. fig. 58.) 
