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ex hyphis asperulatis arcuato-protuberantibus composito peripherice 
in ramos setiformes subulatos rectos rigidos. atro-brunneos opacos 
glabros undique radiantes exeunte, ascis numerosissimis globosis octo- 
sporis 6 fji diam., sporis ellipsoideis hyalinis laevibus 3x2/1. 
Hab. — In ramis emortuis corticatis Fraxini. 
A very beautiful and distinct species. The peripheral network 
consists of brown, minutely asperate hyphae, and the outermost 
portions of the mesh are strongly arched and bear long smooth spine- 
like branches, which radiate in all directions from the central ball. 
The affinity of the species is with M. aeruginosum , Mont., from which 
it differs in the smaller spores, strongly arched ribs of the peripheral 
network, and, so far as we have observed, in the spine-like appendages 
never becoming hooked at the apex. The present species was 
collected by Renny, and is now in Berkeley’s herbarium at Kew. No 
locality is given, but the species is in all probability British. 
M. aeruginosum, Mont. (Figs. 76-79). 
M. aeruginosum , Mont., in Ann. Sci. Nat. s 6 r. II, vi, 34 (1836) ; 
Mont. Syll. Crypt. 307 (1856) ; Sacc. Syll. Fung, iv, 319 (1886). 
M. ochraceum , Berk, and Broome, in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. iv, 
vol. xv, p. 37, nr. 1475, pi. 1, f. 4 (1875), seems, at least in part, to 
belong here. In Berkeley’s herbarium at Kew, the type specimen, 
which is labelled c Myxoirichum ochraceum , Berk, and Br., nr. 402, 
Mar. 21, 1874/ only contains examples of M. dejiexum, Berk, (see 
Figs. 80-82), mixed with immature plants of a species of Chaetomium. 
On this specimen there was already written, in an unknown hand- 
writing, ‘ M. deflexum ’ ; and we were not able to find in it anything 
resembling Berkeley’s figures ( 1 . c.). The only other specimen in 
Berkeley’s herbarium is one labelled ‘ Myxoirichum ochraceum , Berks, 
and Br., C. E. B., Jan. 28, 1874/ This proves to be M. aerugino- 
sum, Mont. ; and the same is the case with the specimens sent out as 
‘ M. ochraceum , Berk, and Br. mss.,’ in Rab. Fung. Eur. nr. 1863, 
collected by Broome at Batheaston, in March, 1874. 
M. aeruginosum , Mont., has hitherto been recorded only from France. 
M. chart arum, Kunze. 
Hab. — On Grouse-dung, Balmoral Forest, Scotland. Sept. 1901. 
M. uncinatum (Eidam) Schroet. 
Hab . — On Rats’ dung, Kew, Aug. 1901. 
A small form of the species, with the appendages sometimes bifid at 
the apex, and each branch uncinate at the tip. 
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