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Subgregarious or scattered, grey or cinereous, perithecium 
globose, brown, Sabuitenbrinendoue $ ; hairs long, elastic, circinate, 
pellucid, faintly and very rarely septate. Asci clavate, fasciculate ; 
sporidia lemon-shaped, colourless; endochrome granular, or 
nucleate. 
Has. On old sacking, King’s Lynn (C. B. Plowright). On 
old rag and paper, Highgate (IM. C. Cooke). 
The threads somewhat conta ere of Chaetomium murorum, 
but are stouter, less rigid, and more transparent, the sporidia are 
peek ~ ager 0004-" 0006 x < 00025- 00035 in.)="013-017 x 
*006— 
No ite specimen exists, and judging from the above description, 
which is Cooke’s original ‘account of the fungus, the species 1s not 
likely to be recognised again. Furthermore, if the spores are 
delat dia the fungus cannot be a Chaetomium. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 
Figs. 1-4 ; Chaetomium crispatum; 1, perithecium ; 2, the two 
) of crown-hairs ; 3, ascus; 4, spores. 
Fig. 5; Chaetomium murorum 
Figs. é- 8; Chaetomium ee 6, perithecium ; 7, tip of a 
crown-hair ; 8, spore 
Figs. 9-10; chen vaans steele 9, perithecium; 10, 
showing habit of fungus, 
Figs. 11-12; Chaetomium Saat ; dl, perithecium ; 12, ascus. 
Fig. 13, Chaetomium bostrychodes. 
Figs. 14-18; Ceratostoma Notarisii; 14, perithecium; 15, 
perithecium after the spores have been ejected from the 
perithecium and held in a mass by the crown-hairs; 16, 
mouth of perithecium with reduced crown-hairs ; 17, ascus ; 
18, portion of crown 
Figs. 19- 20; Myzxotrichum spinosum ; 19, perithecium; 20, 
network covering peritheciu 
Fig. 10, nat. size, the remainder pial 
ee —- VISIT TO THE WEST INDIES 
Fisheries, and I was doumed to attend the Conference as the 
Representative of the Royal Botanic Gardens. 
e passage to the West Indies was made with the other British 
Delegates* m the R.M.S.P. “Arcadian,” leaving England on 
A. K. Marshall, Scientific Secretary, Entomological Research 
Comm ittee, "Colonial Office ; Messrs. J. W. McConnell and W. Marsland, British 
Cotton Growing Association, and damn: C. Sandbach Parker and E. R. ‘Davso vson, 
West India Committee. 
