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Coprophilous Fungi. II. 
Gymnoascus setosus, Eidam (Figs. 18-22). 
G. sefosus , Eidam, in Bot. Centralbl. x, 107 (1882); Sacc. Syll. 
Fung, viii, 824 (1889); Schroet. in Cohn’s Krypt.-Fl. Schles., Bd. iii, 
Halfte 2, 212 (1893). 
Effused and forming more or less continuous patches of a cinereous 
colour ; vegetative hyphae much branched, dark brown, bearing long 
straight spine-like branches, which bear 2-3 opposite or whorled 
short spinous branchlets ; asci very numerous, forming a snow-white 
mass towards the interior, minute, broadly oval or subglobose, 7-8 ^ 
diam. ; spores hyaline, subfusoid, subinaequilateral, 5-7 x 2 /x. 
Hab. — On an old nest of a Wild-bee ( Bombus sp.), Kew, Feb. 
1901. (Distrib. — Germany; on an old Wasp’s nest.) 
A very beautiful species, distinguished from all other members of 
the genus by the central mass of asci remaining permanently snow- 
white. The cinereous colour of the whole Fungus is due to this white 
mass of the balls of asci being seen through the exterior network of the 
brown vegetative hyphae. 
Gymnoascus Reessii, Baran. 
Syn. — Myxotrichum ochraceum, Berk, and Br., * coprogenum , Sacc., in 
Mich, ii, 372 (1881). 
M. coprogenum , Sacc. Syll. Fung, iv, 319 (1886). 
M. coprogenum , Sacc., var. malaccense, Sacc. and Paol., in Sacc. 
Syll. Fung, x, 593 (1892). 
Saccardo has described in Mich, ii, 372 (1881) a Fungus under the 
name of * Myxotrichum ochraceum , B. and Br., Grev. 1874, p. 184, 
* coprogenum. In stercore humano putri Newfield, Ellis, sed ad 
maturitatem cultura provectum Padova, Febr. 1881/ as follows: 
* Caespituli e roseo ochracei, pulvinati, laxe gossipini, J mill. d. ; 
hyphae assurgentes repetite dichotome ramosae, parce septatae, 
4 micr. cr. ramuli ultimi saepius curvuli flavo-ochracei, granulosi ; 
sporae ad apicem ramulorum tenuiorum initio intra vesiculam 
sphaericam , 8^-10 micr. d, conglobatae, saepius octonae, globoso- 
depressae, 3-3-g micr. d. e fronte, 2 micr. e latere, flavo-ochraceae, 
denique, vesicula dilabente, varie inspersae.’ In the Syll. Fung., 
vol. iv, Saccardo described the species as ‘M. coprogenum , Sacc., nec 
M. ochraceum , B. and Br.,’ and added the record ‘ in fimo murino, 
Bruxelles Belgii (Marchal).’ In Syll. Fung. vol. x, Saccardo described 
a new variety of M. coprogenum as War. malaccense , Sacc. et Paol., 
Myc. Malac. n. 120/ with the description, ‘A typo differt sporidiis 
