76 Mas see and Salmon. — Researches on 
branaceous, soft, glabrous, basal part globose, wall parenchymatous, 
composed of delicate polygonal cells about io /u wide, abruptly 
narrowed into the long (700-800 /*) narrow subulate beak, which is 
subhyaline and penicillate at the apex ; spores narrowly elliptical, 
6-7-5 x 2-2*5, hyaline, straight or slightly curved, involved in mucus, 
at maturity expelled at the mouth of the beak in a white ovoid 
mucilaginous drop. 
Hab. On Rabbit-dung, Leith Hill, Surrey, England, Feb. 1901 ; on 
Hares’ dung, Kew, Mar. 1901 ; on dung of Deer, Epping Forest, Oct. 
*901 ; on Rabbit-dung, Sheffield, Yorks. (T. Gibbs, Nov. 1901). 
This interesting Fungus was first collected on Rabbit-dung, at Leith 
Hill, Surrey, in Feb. 1-901. Subsequently it appeared in hundreds on 
Rabbit-dung, brought from the same locality, and kept for a few days 
in a moist atmosphere under a bell-jar. When mature, the Fungus, 
by reason of its superficial position and bright colour, is somewhat 
conspicuous, the long reddish-yellow beak surmounted by a pallid 
mucilaginous drop attracting attention. 
Marchal ( 1 . c.) describes a variety — minor — growing on Rabbit-dung, 
differing in the shorter (500-580 y) regularly cylindrico-conical beak ; 
our plants, however (on Rabbit-dung), possess a very long subulate 
beak, and so evidently belong to the type. The hyphae at the apex 
of the beak are more or less hyaline, and run out into long pro- 
cesses, forming a penicillate mouth ; between these processes the 
spores are held in mucilage (see Fig. 40). In our specimens, amongst 
the normal examples, individuals not uncommonly occurred in which 
the perithecium possessed two beaks ; — one of these perithecia is 
shown at Fig. 39. 
Marchal ( 1 . c.) considers that Sphaeronaemella fimicola probably 
represents the spermogonial stage of some Melanospora. 
Phycomyceteae. 
Mucoraceae. Mucor racemosus, Fres. (Figs. 93-96). 
M. racemosus , Fres., Beitr. Myk. 12, t. 1, ff. 24-31 (1850) ; Sacc. 
Syll. Fung, vii, 192 (1888) ; Fischer in Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl. Deutschl. 
Bd. 1, Abth. iv, 192 (1892). 
Chlamydomucor racemosus , Brefeld, Untersuch. viii, 223, Taf. vii, 
ff. 1-11 (1890). 
Sterile hyphae creeping, branched, septate ; sporangiophores erect, 
