146 British Fuiigi. 



naturf. Gesells. Band ii. p. 298, tab. ix. figs. 59 — 

 67 ; Sacc. Syll. vii. 1, n. 975. 



On various species of aphides. Not common. 



The affected aphides are anchored to the substratum 

 by a few mycelial rhizoids ending in flattened, discoid 

 organs of attachment. 



Basidiobolus, Eidam. 



Sapi'ophytic ; mycelium broadly expanded, thick, 

 branched, septate ; gonidiophores simple, erect, be- 

 coming broadly clavate and basidia-like at the apex 

 which produces gonidia ; resting-spores formed by 

 the conjugation of adjoining cells in the same hypha. 



Basidiobolus, Eidam in Schroet. Kr. Fl. Schles. 

 Pilze, p. 224 ; Sacc. Syll. vii. 1, p. 285. 



Distinguished amongst the genera oi the Entomoph- 

 tlioresB by the peculiar habitat, on the dung of 

 batrachians, and by the remarkably inflated, simple, 

 basidia-like gonidiophores. 



Basidiobolus ranarum, Eidam. 



Gonidiophores highly heliotropic, for some distance 

 cylindrical, 13-15 yu, thick, simple, becoming clavate 

 at the tips and from 40-60 /u, thick, gonidia solitary 

 on the basidia, globose or broadly elliptical, 48-50 

 or 45-46 x 48-50 fju; resting-spores globose or 

 broadly elliptical, epispore thick, undulate, smooth, 

 consisting of several distinct layers, pale yellowish- 

 brown or colourless, 25-45 /jl diameter. 



Basidiobolus raiiariim, Eidam, in Schroeter's Krypt. 

 Fl. Schles. p. 225 ; Sacc. Syll. vii. 1, n. 983. 



On dung of frogs kept in confinement. Xot un- 

 common. 



