308 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Name—G@ranum, a grain, forma, form ; like a small 
rain. 
Batheaston (Mr. C. E. Broome). Shrewsbury ! 
8. Ascophanus aurora. (Crouan.) 
Scattered, minute, orange-red, shining, flattened; 
hymenium plane or convex, when old covered with 
crystalline papille; asci clavate, attenuated at the base; 
sporidia elliptic, hyaline, smooth, 10 x 6:54; paraphyses 
filiform, slender, simple, bifid, or trifid, curved, filled with 
orange granules. 
Pezza avwrora—Crouan, “ Ann. Se. Nat.,” ser. 5, vol. 
10, t. 11, £ 36. <Ascophanus aurora—Boud., “ Ascob.,” 
p- 58, t. 11, £. 86; Cooke, “ Grevillea,” i. p. 182. 
On cow-dung. February. 
Cups } to ? of a line broad. 
Name—Awrora, the morning ; from the ruddy colour. 
Eltham, Kent (Messrs. Berkeley and Broome). 
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9. Ascophanus cinereus. (Crouan.) 
Scattered or scarcely crowded, at first globose, sub- 
urceolate, and marginate, then expanded, hymenium 
becoming plane or convex; externally pruinose, cinereous 
or cinereous-fulvous; asci broadly clavate, attenuated at 
the base; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, hyaline, epispore 
rough with granules, 20 x 9u; paraphyses filiform, 
slender, simple, septate. 
Ascobolus cinereus—Crouan, “ Ann. Soc. Nat.,” vol. 10, 
p- 194, t. 13 p, f. 17-20; and “Flo. Fin.,” p. 56; Ccemans, 
“Bull. Soe. Bot. Belg.,” i. p. 88, No. 6; and “Spicilege,” 
p- 15, No. 6; Kickx., “ Flo. Flan.,” i. p. 477; B. and Br., 
“Ann. Nat. Hist.” No. 1085, t. 17, f£. 30; Cooke, 
“Handbk.,” No. 2212. <Ascophanus cinereus—Boud., 
“ Ascob.,” p. 59, t. 11, f. 87. 
About 200 to 400u broad. 
Name—Cinis, ashes; ash-colour. 
Weybridge, Surrey! (in the herbarium of the late 
Mr. F. Currey). 
