ASCOPHANUS. 3809 
10. Ascophanus carneus. (Pers.) 
Scattered or rarely crowded, minute, sessile, flesh- 
colour or rosy fiesh-colour, glabrous, at first globose, then 
flattened; hymenium convex, papillate, immarginate ; 
asci broadly clavate, attenuated below, hyaline, or almost 
rosy; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, or sometimes minutely 
granular, hyaline, each when young surrounded by 
gelatine, 18 x 10u; paraphyses stout, clavate at the 
apices, septate. 
Ascobolus carneus—Pers., “Syn. Fung.,” p. 676; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” ii, p. 165; Berk., “Outl.,” p. 374; Karst., 
“Pez. et Ascob.,” p. 44; and “Mon. Pez.,” p. 120; Nyl, 
“Pez. Fenn.,” p. 86; Cooke, “Jour. Bot.,” 1864; and 
“ Handbk.,” No. 2213; B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
No. 1085*, t. 17, f. 29; Gill, “Champ.,” p. 143. Asco- 
phanus carneus—Boud., “Ann. Se. Nat.,” 1869, x. t. 12, 
f. 838; and “ Ascob.,” p. 60, ci; Pat. p. 172, f. 379. 
Exs.—Fck1L, “F. Rh.,” No. 1857; Rav., “Fung. Am.,” 
176; Ellis, “N. A. Fungi,” 853. 
On cow-dung, rotting cloth, and hempen cord. 
Autumn. 
About 4 to 2? of a line broad. Generally seated on a 
white mycelium. 
Name—Caro, flesh; flesh-colour. 
Forden, Montgomeryshire, on nettle-stems! Forres, 
N.B., on cow-dung! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Lynn, on cloth! 
(Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
Var. B. cunicult. Boud., “ Ascob.,” t. 12, f. 39. 
Dirty orange or orange flesh-colour, 4 a line broad, 
scattered or crowded. Paraphyses always hyaline. 
Phil. and Plow., “Grevillea,” ii. p. 187; Pat., p. 172, 
f. 380. 
Exs.—Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” ed. ii. No. 398. 
On rabbit-dung. December. 
Name—Cuniculus, a rabbit’s burrow; from the 
habitat. 
Near Shrewsbury ! 
