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bearing the single spherical cyst-mass terminally. Cysts very 
variable in form, shape and size, cylindrical to broadly turnip- 
shaped, the young cysts fusiform or nearly so, the rods retreat- 
ing from each end towards the center and leaving behind a 
shriveled membrane forming a basal and terminal appendage, 
the latter longer and pointed. Color bright orange. Rods 
1 by 3-20m, sometimes longer. Head of cysts 136m, average 
about 200. Cysts, turnip-shaped form, average about 35 
broad by 28m long; cylindrical form, average 35 by I8y. Cysto- 
phores about 500-1000u in height. All dimensions subject to 
great variations. 
On dung of antelope from Liberia, Africa. 
Two or three cystophores of this striking species made their appearance 
on some antelope dung sent me from Africa, which I owe to the kindness of 
Mr. F. C. Straub. Having been successful in propagating it from these orig- 
inal specimens I have kept it in constant cultivation for more than a year, 
and have thus been able to determine the constancy of the characters which 
separate it from its nearest ally, C. crocatus. Its general color is somewhat 
more orange and less yellow than that of the last mentioned species, and 
though rarely branched it never develops the highly differentiated cysto- 
phores so characteristic of this species when growing under favorable 
conditions. The head is almost invariably solitary under the most favorable 
conditions, and the mature cysts are always characterized by the peculiar 
shrivelled appendages to which reference has already been made above- 
The variations in the form of the cysts is very great, the most typical and 
striking having the turnip or onion-shape represented in figs. 5, 7 ii. 
The cysts not infrequently fuse laterally while in process of formation so that 
conditions similar to those represented in figs. §, 72 are sometimes found, 
hich have resulted from the fusion of two and three cysts, respectively- 
The germination of the cysts is as readily observed as in C. crocatus, but, 
unlike that species, takes place not only normally at the base, but also at the 
apex, as is represented in fig. 17. The species never grows as readily or 45 
luxuriantly as C. crocatus, and I have found great difficulty in inducing it t 
grow pure on nutrient agar, on which it develops very slowly, and seldom 
produces cysts and anes ous 
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Chondromyces nov. sp. Plate XXXI, figs. 20- 24- 
—Color orange red. oor simple, tapering distally to 
a pointed apex, rigid and persistent on the substratum. Cysts 
_ solitary, terminal, Lidge. to oval, rounded distally, somewhat 
