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Eurotium, Link. 
E. Herbariorum, Link. On decaying plants. Common. 
E. lateritium, Mont. On bep decaying plants. ` 
E. insigne, Winter. On dung of horse and dog. A very beau- 
tiful fungus having excoptionaly large, globose, coloured, and 
densely spinulose spores. The mould formerly known as Glio- 
cladium penicillioides, cS has been proved to be the conidial 
condition of this fungus. Ascospores of the Eurotium were sown 
on ar peur films of cork floating on a decoction of dung. These 
germinated freely and at the end of five days produced typical 
Soop bores of the Gliocladium. After 11 days the same 
mycelium bore perithecia of the Hurotiwm. 
E. mierosporum, Mass. & Salm. On dung of guinea-pig. An 
exceedingly minute al 2 gee The globose perithecia are of a 
delicate sage green colour 
Anixiopsis, Hansen. 
A. stercoracia, Hansen. On owl-castings. Cultivated on rabbit- 
dung, beer-wort, cooked rice, &c. 
Magnusia, Sacc. 
M. nitida, Sace. On rabbit-dung. 
M. Bartlettii, Mass. & Salm. On dung of guinea-pig. 
Arachnomyces, Mass. & Salm. 
A. nitidus, Mass. & Salm. On leaves and stems of decaying 
plants. The perithecia are perfectly globose, black, and shining, 
and are furnished with long slender blackish Aper deos that are 
wavy and more or less spirally coiled at the ti 
A. iiw ws Mass. & Salm. On dead grass forming the nest 
of some wild bee. Differs from the previous species in the yetaw 
colour of the perithecium. 
Perisporium, Fries. 
P. vulgare, Corda. On rotting sacking. 
Anixia, Fries. 
A. spadicea, Fckl. .On horse-dung.. 
A. perichaenoides, Sacc. On decaying plant stem. 
: CAPNODIEAE. 
Capnodium, Mont. 
C. Salicin Mont. On living branches and leaves of Salix 
viminalis and S. Caprea. 
C. Tiliae, Saccardo. On inde leaves of Tilia cordata. 
Antennaria, Link. 
A. laevigata, Corda. On bark of Betula alba. 
