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Coprophilous Fungi. II. 
Perisporiaceae. Anixiopsis stereoraria, Hans. (Figs. 27, 28). 
Eurotium stercorarium , Hans., in Vidensk. Meddel. 1876, 310(1876- 
77); Sacc. Syll. Fung. i. 27 (1882). 
Anixiopsis sfercoraria , Hans., in Bot. Zeit. lv, 13 1, Taf. 11, 
Fig. 8 (1897); Sacc. Syll. Fung, xiv, 464 (1900). 
Perithecia minute, globose, about 240 ^ in diam., scattered, at first 
brownish, then dull yellowish ; mycelium inconspicuous ; wall of 
perithecium delicate, membranaceous, distinctly cellular, cells about 
4 fx wide; asci very numerous, subglobose to oblong, about ion 
in diam., wall very evanescent. 6-8-spored ; spores very minute, 
irregularly globose to subelliptic, conglobate at first, 4 n in diam., 
rough with minute scattered points. 
Hab . — On Owl-castings, Kew, July, 1901. (Distrib. — Denmark, on 
old dung of Fox, containing remains of mammals; cultivated on 
Rabbit-dung, beer-wort, cooked rice, &c.) 
Resembling a minute species of Eurotium , and best recognized by 
the minute rough spores, at first conglobate in the ascus. Only a few 
perithecia were observed on the Owl-castings. 
Hansen succeeded in germinating spores of the present Fungus in 
various media (beer-wort, cooked rice, decoction of Rabbit-dung, &c.) 
after the spores had been kept for twenty-one years. The spores 
produced on germination a mycelium composed of colourless septate 
branched hyphae. The mycelium produced aerial branches which 
bore conidia. These conidia were intercalary or terminal, and were 
very irregular in shape and size ; often, however, they were pyriform 
or clavate in shape, and measured 7—1 9 n long. The conidia are 
usually produced singly, but sometimes form oidiumAdke chains. 
After about eighteen days from the time of germination perithecia 
began to be formed. Hansen believes the above to be the normal 
life-cycle of the species, and considers that the occurrence of the 
above-described conidia in the place of an Aspergillus-comdi&X 
form is sufficient to exclude the present Fungus from Eurotium. 
It may, perhaps, be well to point out that in Eurotium insigne, Wint., 
we find the rough spores conglobate at first in the ascus in the same 
manner as in the present species. 
Eurotium microsporum, Mass, and Salm. 
Hab . — On dung of Argali Sheep, Kew, August, 1901. 
E. insigne, Wint. 
Hab . — On dung of Llama, Kew, June, 1901. 
