328 Massee and Salmon , — Researches on 
of asci and spores are taken from the British specimens. Heimerl 
(1. c.) gives the size of asci and spores as follows: asci, 1 20-174 
X 50-73 /x; spores, 14-5-17-5 x 7-8-5 /n In the British specimens each 
asciis contained thirty-two spores ; Heimerl states that this is the usual 
number for the present species, although he has observed cases of 
the occurrence of twenty-nine and about forty-five spores in an ascus. 
In A. sexdecimsporus the normal number of spores in each ascus is 
sixteen ; it may be worth recording here, however, that in one instance 
we observed eighteen fully-formed spores to be present. 
Ascophanus mierosporus (Berk, and Br.), Phill. ; Mass. Brit. 
Fung. FI. iv, 173 (1895). 
Hab. — On the dung of Argali Sheep {Ovis ammori), Kew, Nov. 1900. 
A. equinus, Mass. Brit. Fung. FI. iv, 179 (1895) ; Bond., M&n. 
Ascob. 254, PI. 12, xlii-xliv (1869). 
Hab. — On the dung of Mexican Deer (Cariacus mexicanus ) and 
Elephant ( Elephas africanus), Kew, Dec. 1900. 
A. ochraceus (Cr.), Bond., M6m. Ascob. 247, PI. II, xxxiv (1869) ; 
Mass. Brit. Fung. FI. iv, 176 (1895). 
Hab— On the dung ofBurrhel Wild Sheep {Ovis burrhel), Mar. 1901. 
Ascob olus perplexans, sp. nov. (Figs. 52-55). 
Apotheciis sp arsis luteo-virentibus extus minutissime furfuraceis 
mox glabris piriformibus, disco initio concavo demum piano vel sub- 
convexo, acute marginatis 0-5-1 mm. latis ; ascis cylindraceis basi 
attenuatis octosporis 190-210x16-20^; sporis oblongo-ovatis 
monostichis 18-19 X 9 "“ io / x j episporio longitudinaliter rimuloso et 
parce reticulato demum verruculoso violaceo ; paraphysibus filifor- 
mibus, interdum ramosis, sursum incrassatis septatis saepe nodulosis 
muco flavovirente obvolutis. 
Hab. — In fimo Raphiceri melanotidis (Grys-bok), Elephantis africani 
(Elephant), Macropodis gigantei (Kangaroo), Cervi elaphi (Red Deer), 
Ovis vignei (Ural Wild Sheep), Kew, Nov.-Feb. 1901 ; in fimo 
equino, S. Kensington, Mar. 1901. 
A very beautiful species, perhaps most nearly allied to A. glaber, 
Pers. The epispore is at first simply longitudinally cracked, but 
at a later stage it becomes broken up in an areolate manner, the 
small portions of epispore resembling minute warts under a magnifica- 
tion of 400 diam. 
A. vinosus, Berk., Bond., Mdm. Ascob. 221, PI. 6, xi. (1869), Mass. 
Brit. Fung. FI. iv, 159 (1895). 
