ASCOPHANUS, 805 
drawing sent me by Mr. Renny, but I regret to say no 
indication of the magnifying power is given, so that I 
am unable to supply the measurements of the sporidia. 
Name—After E. Boudier. 
Hereford (Mr. James Renny), 
(6) Sporidia elliptic. 
2. Ascophanus subfuscus. Boud. 
Crowded, rarely scattered, very minute, hemispherical; 
externally glabrous, brown, paler at the base, when dry 
‘black-brown, with an irregular inflexed margin; hyme- 
nium plane, pale or pale fulvous; asci short, broadly 
clavate; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, subfusiform, hyaline, 
10 x 54; paraphyses broadly clavate and brown at the 
apices, 
. Ascophanus subfuscus—Boud., “Ascob.,” p. 52, t. 10, 
fig. xxvili. ; “Scott. Nat.,” i. (new series) 87. 
Exs.—Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” ed. ii. No. 657. 
On cow-dung. 
Receptacles, according to Boudier, yy to } mm. (100 
to 200) broad. 
The specimens referred to the above species agree in 
size and external characters, but not in habitat; nor, 
indeed, can it be said of the sporidia that they are sub- 
fusiform. 
Shrewsbury ! 
3. Ascophanus minutissimus. Boud. 
Very minute, hardly visible under a lens, always 
scattered, hemispherical or applanate, brown or fulvous ; 
hymenium the same colour; margin black; asci rather 
broad, small, hyaline, attenuated at the base; sporidia 8, 
elliptic, subfusiform, hyaline, smooth, 7 X 4; paraphyses 
simple, pyriform at the apices, yellow-green, hyaline at 
the base. 
Ascophanus minutissimus—Boud., “ Ascob.,” p. 53, 
t. 10, f. 29. 
On horse-dung. 
