Coprophilous Fungi . II. 
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Hymenomyceteae. 
Coprinus Gibbsii, Mass, and Crossl. 
Hab . — On Horse-dung, Sheffield, Yorksh. (T. Gibbs, Nov. 1901). 
C. velox, Godey. 
C. velox , Godey, in Gillet’s Champ. France* Hymen., p. 614, with 
fig.; Sacc. Syll. Fung, v, 1107 (1887). 
Pileus cylindrical then obovate, finally expanded, at first entirely 
covered with white floccose down, becoming naked and grey, striate, 
disc and grooves minutely scurfy, 3-4 mm. across, membranaceous ; 
gills narrow, attenuato-free, not deliquescing; spores elliptic-oblong, 
brown with a purple tinge, 7x5/*, cystidia absent; stem 1-5-3 cm. 
long, filiform, slightly thickened at the base, translucent, colourless, at 
first floccosely downy, becoming glabrous except at the base. 
Hab . — On Horse-dung, Kew, Jan. 1902. (Distrib. — France, on 
Cow-dung.) 
Ascomyceteae. 
Gymnoaseaeeae. Ascodesmis Volutelloides, sp. nov. (Figs. 
13-17)- 
Ascomatibus punctiformibus circ. 1 50 /x diam., primo niveis demum 
dilute stramineis globulosis pilis longis 120-500 [i filiformi-setaceis 
basi plus minus inflatis rectis vel flexuosis hyalinis septatis e membrana 
basilari parenchymatica orientibus cinctis, ascis piriformibus vel 
oblongis breviter stipitatis citissime diffluentibus 28-35 x 14-16 /*, 
octosporis, sporis globosis 10 n diam. hyalinis vel dilute stramineis 
minute asperis; paraphysibus paucis filiformibus septatis apice curvatis 
circ. 40 fi longis mox evanescentibus. 
Hab . — In fimo Macropodis gigantei (Kangaroo), Kew, Mar. 1901. 
The present Fungus appeared on some Kangaroo-dung, after it had 
been kept some months, where it formed minute scattered specks, 
which were at first snow-white, subsequently turning to pale yellowish. 
It is at once distinguished from the two species of Ascodesmis hitherto 
recorded — A. nigricans , van Tiegh., and A. aurea , van Tiegh. — by 
the presence of the long seta-like hairs surrounding the ascophore, 
which give to the present Fungus a superficial resemblance to species 
of the Hyphomycetous genus Volutella. The setae spring from 
a delicate cellular structure at the base of the ascophore. 
