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Massee and Salmon. —Researches on 
Ascoboiaceae. Thelebolus stercoreus, Zukal. 
Hah. On Rabbit-dung, Sheffield, Yorksh. (T. Gibbs, Nov. 1901). 
Ascobolus perplexans, Mass, and Salm. 
Hah. — On dung of Bactrian Camel and Llama, Kew, June, 1901. 
A. immersus, Pers 
Hah. — On dung of Bactrian Camel, Kew, June, 1901. 
Saceobolus Kerverni (Cr.), Boud. 
Hah. — On dung of Bactrian Camel, Kew, June, 1901. 
S. neglectus, Boud. 
Hah.— On dung of Bactrian Camel, Kew, June, 1901. 
Aseophanus ochraceus (Cr.), Boud. 
Hah. — On dung of Bactrian Camel, Kew, June, 1901. 
Pezizaceae. Humaria salmonicolor (Berk, and Broome), Sacc. 
Peziza ( Humaria ) salmonicolor , Berk, and Broome, in Ann. Nat. 
Hist, xviii, 124, PL iv, f. 19 (1866); Cooke, Mycogr. f. 48, and 
in Grevillea, iii, f. 202. 
Humaria salmonicolor (Berk, and Br.), Sacc. Syll. Fung, viii, 123 
(1889); Mass. Brit. Fung. FI. iv, 420 (1895). 
Hah.— On Hares* dung, Kew, April, 1901. 
This very interesting species of Humaria, which does not appear 
to have been hitherto met with since its original discovery in England, 
'on the side of a ditch, Woodnewton/ in 1858, occurred in some 
plenty on Hares’ dung after this had been kept for a few weeks under 
a bell-jar. The apothecia are remarkably translucent in appearance, 
and are salmon-coloured or of a reddish-orange colour. When 
young, the apothecia are surrounded by delicate white hyphae, pro- 
ceeding from the basal cortical cells, forming a kind of subiculum 
just as in H. domeslica (Sow.), Mass. The apothecia in our specimens 
measured J-i mm. across. The asci are about 280 ft long, and 
30-34 ft wide ; the spores, which are irregularly biseriate towards the 
apex of the ascus, measure 20-22 x n-12 ft, and, when mature, 
have a very minutely rough epispore. 
H. salmonicolor appears to be essentially distinct from H. domeslica 
in the broadly clavate or oblong (not cylindrical) ascus and the 
irregularly biseriate spores. Cooke’s figure of the ascus in Mycogr. 
is not correct, and the colour there given of the apothecium is far 
too red ; the figure of the ascus given in Grevillea represents the 
shape better. 
