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and Salmon” remark, coprophilous Fungi seem generally to be quite in- 
different as to their particular hosts. Опе sample, however, was in small 
round pellets similar to rabbit-dung, the other two being of larger animals, 
all apparently belonging to herbivorous mammals. 
The material was received by the writer in November 1905, and was 
treated as recommended by Massee and Salmon *, being kept under glass 
covers upon wet blotting-paper. The water used was sterilized by boiling 
to prevent infection by spores from outside sources. Notwithstanding 
their subtropical origin, the cultivations were carried on through a Derbyshire 
winter and spring in a room without a fire, but in a window warmed by 
the morning sun. 
The first appearanee of a fungus-growth was noticed soon after Christmas, 
when the round pellets mentioned above (which had for a few days been 
placed in а warm room) appeared as if sprinkled with soot owing to a profuse 
growth of Saccobolus depauperatus, Rehm. From this time for upwards of 
three months, indeed so long as the material was kept moist, the fungus crop 
continued, and fresh species appeared from time to time. 
Altogether thirteen speeies were seen: of these, eight were of known 
species ; one (Coprinus Cheesmani, Gibbs) is now described for the first time; 
of two others, (6) Sordaria sp. and (8) Delitsehia sp., the portions seen were 
too fragmentary for certain recognition; while of two more, (2) Coprinus sp. 
and (13) Ascophanus sp., which could not be identified with any known 
species, the scanty material seen did not justify new specific diagnoses. 
А full bibliography of the whole subject will be found in Messrs. Massee 
=.) 
and Salmon's paper in the Oxford * Annals of Botany,’ xv. (1901) 353-355. 
List of Fungi observed. 
HYMENOMYCETZE. 
AGARICACE.E, 
І. Coprinus СНЕЕЗМАХТ, Gibbs (sp. nov.). (Plate 86.) 
Livingstone Island, Victoria Falls. 
C. pileo tenerrimo, aliquandiu ovato-campanulato, tune expanso, umbonato, 
posthac sursum curvato, plicato-suleato, tandem ad partem dorsalem lamel- 
larum fisso, latitudine ad 23 mm., pallido-fulvo vel subrufo, disco obscuriore 
tandem depresso, pilis erectis hyalinis non septatis vestito. Lamelle griseo- 
nigrantes adnate vel adnexe anguste, 50-70 numero in pileis majoribus. 
* Massee, G., and Salmon, E. S., * Researches оп Coprophilous Fungi," Annals of Botany, 
ху. 013-357, pls. 17, 18 (1901). 
