130 NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 
sporangia. Bainier figures echinulate zygospores, 73-84 ps diam. 
No doubt often found, but confounded with M. ram nie Bull. 
owing to the meagre dese cription, in the ‘Handbook,’ of the latter, 
which is represented by Bulliard with numerous panicled branches. 
76. Mortierella polycephala Coemans, Hyph. Nouv. (1863); Van 
Tiegh. Rech. sur les Mue. p. 98 seqq. t. 24, f. 80-89 (1873); Bainier, 
Mucor. p. 108-4 (1882). — M. erystallina Harz, Neue Hyph. p. 58, 
1.1.3 Ue 871 
Stems in Nuss white scattered tufts of 20 or more, erect, 
straight, perfectly hyaline and smooth, not granular, swollen below, 
attenuated and on above, 950. 400 » high, terminated m @ 
single sporange, about 40 » diam. ; a little ‘bale the sporange are 
2-4 (rarely 5 or 6) one: Spatent branches, sometimes subverticillate 
or opposite, more often scattered, but not remote; branches pes 
cylindric-subulate, sporangia smaller than terinasial one. Sport 
subspherical, rather angular at times, perfectly hyaline, 10-12 ; 
diam., 50-80 in a sporange. 
On Hypnum, dung, &c., Edgbaston (Wk.), Oct. At the base 
and on the moss were numerous whitish yellow ‘ chlamydospores,” 
spherical, covered with short blunt spines, supported on very short 
or longer spies eee 20-21 p diam. = probably Sepedonium 
mucorinum Harz (l.¢. p. 23). 
7. Gymnoascus oe eas Tiegh., Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. (1877) 3 
Winter, Pilze, ii. 16 ae 
Eo oe " bro ad, at first bearing conidia; hyph# 
irregularly joes entangled, having thin walls covered with 
nD 
diam. Every part of the pion is of a brigh ab -wax red 
colour. 
On dog’s dung, Hereford,* Dec. to Mare ae asci are at first 
concealed by the tufts of hyphe, but at nah exposed. 
78. Gymnoascus Reesii Baranetzky, Bot. Zeit. hu 2); Winter, 
Pilze, ii. 15 (1 
This is similar to the preceding, except in colour, and has 
i and sporidia. I include it here with — 
0 
an. 
walls, smooth outside, but the Ege contour wavy, W! with 
numerous — ; the asci roundish, 7-9 » diam.; the sporidia 
discoid, 4 » diam., and of a pale brown Soe 
On dog’s dung, Hereford, Dec. With the preceding. 
__ _* This and the other fungi (except one) mentioned i _ ov paper from Here- 
_ ford grew on a portion of dung which I picked up there during the Fungus 
Foray, 1885, — on my return kept moist under a glass anade. It is wor of 
note that none of them appeared until the matrix had been so preserved for 
about two secatioes i 
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