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then convex, externally paler and covered with a delicate white 

 tomentum. Flesh concolorous. Asci cylindrical, attenu- 

 ated at the base, 170-180 x 12-14/i, 4-spored, not turning blue 

 with iodine. Spores fusiform, 25-30x10-12/1, obtuse, 

 smooth, hyaline, 2-4-guttulate. Paraphyses flexuose, simple, 

 or branched, septate, gradually attenuated downwards, 180- 

 185 X 2-4U, filled with reddish granules and turning green with 

 iodine. 



Amongst moss, near Perth, 14th September, 191 7, Mr. J. 

 Menzies. Mr. Menzies also reported that he had gathered 

 this species in company with Mr. C. Mcintosh on the sandy 

 bank of the Tay near Ballinluig in 1913. 



Dermatea umbrina Cke. & Massee. Cke. & Massee in Grev. 

 xxi., 72. 

 Mr. J. Menzies found a number of specimens growing on 

 Ulex, near Perth, on the ist January, 1918. Asci cylindrical, 

 somewhat abruptly attenuated at the base, 1 10-120 x 12/i, 8- 

 spored. Spores elliptical, 13-16x8-10/1, hyaline, becoming 

 brownish with age, with a large central gutta. Paraphyses 

 linear, 120-140x2-3//, septate. 



AxTROMYCES Fresen. Beitr. I., 37 (1850). Sacc. Syll. iv., 

 626. 

 Coremia compact, dark brown. Stem cylindrical. Heads 

 hemispherical, somewhat waxy, consisting of compact, dicho- 

 tomously branched conidiophores. Conidia at first continu- 

 ous, hyaline, then i -septate, cylindrical-fusiform, brownish, 

 eaten ulate. 



Antromyces copridis Fresen. Beitr. I., 37 (1850), Tab. iv., 

 figs. 40-45. Bizzoz. ]\Iicol. Venet., 528. Boudier 

 in Bull. Soc. Myc. France III., 152, Tab. xvi. Sacc. 

 Syll. iv., 626, x., 698. 



Mycelium pale. Coremia StilbeJla-like, dark grey, 2-3 mm. 

 high. Stem cylindrical, or slightly attenuated above, some- 

 what thickened at the base, simple, or very rarely forked, con- 

 sisting of smoke-coloured, septate hyphae. Heads round, 

 5-7 mm. in diameter, somewhat umbilicate on the underside, 

 composed of dichotomously branched threads. Conidia 

 arising from the ends of the hyphae in long, dichotomously 

 branched threads, oblong, cylindrical, 13-20x5 -8/1, continu- 

 ous, then divided by a cross-wall, not or only slightly con- 

 stricted at the septum, darker and granular inside, pale 

 brownish. 



On the inside of the case of dung of the Copris beetle, ex 

 Mr. Hugh Maine per Miss A. Hibbert-Ware, 14th September, 

 1917. 



