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6. Ascophanus microsporus. (B. and Br.) 
Very minute, sessile, dirty white or yellowish brown, 
depressed; asci broadly clavate, often furnished at the 
base with a little narrow, oblique stem; sporidia 8, 
elliptic, at length violet, smooth, 76 x 3°54; paraphyses 
globose at the apices, filled with a greenish-yellow 
endochrome. ; 
Ascobolus microsporus—B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. 
Hist.,” No. 1087, t. 16, f 28; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 
2209. Ase. Cemansii—Boud., “Ann. Sc. Nat.,” 1869 ; 
and “ Ascob.,” p. 54, t. 10, f. 30. 
Exs.—Rabh., “ Fung. Eur.,” No. 977. 
On dung of cows and sheep. 
About } to } a line broad. 
“This differs materially from Ascoph. granuliformis 
in the size of the fruit, which is proportionally narrower ; 
the colour also is different ” (B. and Br., l. ¢.). 
Name—unxpée, minute, odpog, a seed. 
Batheaston (Messrs. Berkeley and Broome). Han- 
ham, near Bristol! (Mr. Broome). Forden (Rev. J. E. 
Vize). Shrewsbury! 
7. Ascophanus granuliformis. (Crouan.) 
Minute, sessile, globose or hemispherical, pale yellow- 
ochre, translucent, opaque in the centre, smooth; asci 
small, very wide, oblong-ovate, narrowed at the base; 
sporidia 8, hyaline, smooth, elliptic, 1O—13 x 76yu; para- 
physes hyaline, septate, simple or branched, pear-shaped 
at the apices. 
Ascobolus granuliformis—Crouan, “Ann. Se. Nat.” 
(1858), vol. 10, tab. 18, f 27-35; “Flo. Fin,” p. 56; 
Cooke, “Jour. Bot.,” 1864, f£ 5; “Handbk,,” No. 2208 
Ascophanus granuliformis—Boud., “ Ascob.,” p. 55, t. 10, 
f. 831; “Ann. Se. Nat.,” 1869, vol. 10; Pat., p. 74, f. 173. 
Exs.—Rabh., “ Fung. Eur.,” nov. ed., No. 782. 
On cow-dung. 
About } to } a line broad. 
