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what darker, minute, sessile. Paraphyses slender, bent at the 

 ends, not branched. Asci operculate, broadly clavate, hyaline. 

 Spores hyaline, then purple, then brown, oval or somewhat fusi- 

 form, ejected in a mass surrounded by a gelatinous envelope, not 

 filling the ascus when mature, 12 mic. long and 5 mic. wide. 



Grown on old cow dung in the laboratory. 



Coll. Freda M. Bachman, Nov. 13, 1907. 



Genus III. Ascopha'nus Bond. Mem. Ascob. 51. 1869. 



Type species, Ascophanus subfuscus (Cronan) Bond. 



Mycelium mostly in the substratum but more or less abun- 

 dant beneath the apothecia. Apothecia fleshy or fleshy-'gelatinoua, 

 sessile, concave then plane or convex, small, glabrous or pruinose, 

 somewhat pyriform. Paraphyses simple or branched, septate, 

 slender, often granular, hyaline or colored, equal in length with 

 the asci, apices usually clavate. Asci broadly clavate, rarely ob- 

 long-ovate, hyaline or slightly tinted, attenuated at the base, 

 prominent as crystalline papillae en the hymenium, with a con- 

 spicuous round, often recurved operculum. Spores 8 or 16, 

 elliptic or oblong-elliptic, when immature surrounded singly by 

 a hyaline gelatinous envelope, smooth or rare minutely punc- 

 tate, hyaline or very slightly tinted, the nucleus conspicuous. 



Commonly found on dung but also on decaying plant ma- 

 terial. 



The genus may be distinguished from Ascobolus and Sacco- 

 bolus by the spores which are always hyaline although some- 

 times by refraction they appear greenish or roseate, and from 

 Lasiobolus by the less hairy exterior of the apothecia. A single 

 species has 16 spores. 



-\-Ascophanits saccharin us (Currey) Bond. Ann. Sci. Nat. v. 

 10: 251. pi. 12. 1869. 



Ascobohis saccharinus Berk. & Curr. Journ. Bot. 2:154. 



f. 10. 1864. 



Apothecia scattered or crowded, 2-4 mm. broad, interior 



salmon pink, becoming convex, exterior paler, at first surrounded 



by hyaline hyphae which are not apparent later. Hymenium 



salmon pink, hypothecium very pale pink or hyaline. Paraphyses 



