- 182 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 
eas when uae =e gat ig epispore, averaging 
8 pw. w and horse dung, Sutton; Water Orton (Wk.); 
Haron Clent ‘(Ws de aie Without doukt frequently recorded 
a. crystallinus or P. roridus, from both of which it differs. 
September to March. (Tab. 245, f. 4). 
+P. Kiemn, forma sp HEROSPORA, mihi.—Sporis irregularibus, 
ut aes sphericis granulosis.—Van Tiegh. Trois. Mém. p. 26. 
sometimes allintic. yarn and reels: in the same sporange ; 
mostly with numerous granules, without conspicuous epispore, 
orange or yellow, varying greatly in size, when round averaging 
16 This usually appears first in a culture of P. Kleint, 
and gradually passes into the normal form; but I have sometimes 
known it persist for a week or two without doing so. 
figure, compared with the description of Pyenopodium (I. ¢., v. 18); 
evidently represents a badly-nourished state of this, and not of 
P. edipus; and this form is also Bor salen’ s crystallinus, and i 
edipus of Klein & Brefeld. (Tab. 245, f. 5). 
PILAIRA Van Trane (1875).} 
Mucorine. Sporange like that of Pilobolus, but not projected. 
Cuticle of upper part of sporange thick, indurated. Stem without 
a age at the summit, and with no acter at the as 
fia a sm: n omens elo scapes 
sporange ; columella flatly convex. Spores oval, singly colourless, 
faintly yellowish in mass, equal, 8-10 » x 6 » (Van Tieg! 
Bainier), 18-16 ~ x 10 « (Coemans), 75 « x 4 p§ (Broféld), 
11-12% x 7p (mihi). (Tab. 245, f. 6). . 
mend Mucor, Edgbaston; December, January. Stem 
8-10 cm. high; sporange about 0-16 mm. diam. Resembling 
Mucor Huae, but easily distinguished by its Pilobolus-like 
sporange. Brefeld appears to have confused this and the following 
ae inextricably toge ether 
10. +Prara piwprara sp. n te See EES —e olim, ‘ Midl. 
Nat.’ vi. 119). — Pilobolus anomalits Brefeld, p 
{ wiAos, a hat; aipw, I raise. 
§ Brefeld says in the text, “006 mm, broad,” but his figure is 4 4 broad. 
