182 MONOGRAPH OF CHAETOMIUM AND ASCOTRICHA 
X, 980; Fung. Gall. I, 66, and XV, 1428; Fung. Rhen. VII, 
646; Fung. Rossiae II, 83; Fung. Sax. XVII, 834; Herb. 
Crypt. Belg. I, 83; Herb. Myc. I, 58; Klotzsch. Herb. Viv. 
Myc. XI, 1032; Myc. March 343, 4534, 4751; Myc. Univ. 
ҮШІ, 758; М. A. Е. VI, 560; РІ. Crypt. de Fr. Set. I, М, 237; 
Rehm. Asc. 247b; Schweiz. Krypt. XI, 526; Sub Ch. atrum 
Link: Fung. Gall. IV, 325; М. & М. Stirp. XV, 1483; РІ. 
Crypt. de Fr. Set. III, II, 86. Sub Ch. atrum Link, var. dis- 
tinctum Roum.: Fung. Gall. XXXIX, 3883. Sub Ch. atrum 
Link, var. Therryana Roum. et Pat.: Fung. Gall. ХХУ, 2496. 
Sub Ch. comatum (Tode) Fr.: Erb. Crit. Ital. Series II, XVI, and 
XVII, 834; Fung. Gall X, 975; Jaap, Fung. 372; Krypt. 
Vind. 1814; Misc. rar. (Vestergren) LVII-LVIII, 1420; Myc. 
Ital. IX, 841; Myc. March. 4016; Myc. Venet. VII, 636. Sub 
Ch. comatum (Tode) Fr., var. ligni Roum.: Fung. Gall. 64, 6309. 
Sub Ch. Fieberi Cda., var. chartarum Roum.: Fung. Gall. LIX, 
5827. Sub Ch. graminicolum Fckl.: Fung. Rhen., VII, 647. 
Sub Ch. graminis Rabh.: Klotzsch. Herb. Viv. Myc. XVI, 1555- 
Sub Ch. lageniformeé Cda.: Herb. Myc., Edit. Nova, VI, 521. 
Sub Ch. Libertii Roum. et Pat.: Fung. Gall. XXIV, 2376. Sub 
Ch. murorum Cda.: Fung. Europ. Series II, Edit. nova, ІП, 234. 
Sub Ch. pannosum Wallr.: Fung. Europ. Series II, XXI, 2025; 
Fung. Gall. I, 61; Herb. Myc., Edit. Nova., VIII, 748; Klotzsch. 
Herb. Viv. Myc. XVI, 1556; Myc. March. 1548, 4752; Myc. 
Ital. XV, 1475. 
This is a very common and widely distributed species, having 
appeared on substrata of very varied character such as old rope, 
straw, paper, barrel hoops, old brooms, and on the dung of 
different animals. The writer has found this species on such 
materials from many localities in New England, and from the 
Carolinas, Maryland, California, Illinois, New Jersey, and Penn- ` 
sylvania; also from Switzerland, Germany, and the Galapagos 
(Chivers No. 15). Тһе species has also been reported by many 
other authors from different localities in North America, from 
England, Scotland, Russia, and from many places in Europe. 
There is no species of Chaetomium, with the possible excep- 
tion of Ch. globosum Кге. which has received so much attention 
as Ch. elatum, and while the characteristics described by Kunze 
