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septate, irregularly branched near the apex, each branch bearing a 
terminal globose amber-coloured sporangium, 25-35 P diam., some- 
times larger, sprinkled with particles of lime ; columella elliptical ; 
spores broadly elliptical, 7-8 x 4-5 n, hyaline ; zygospore globose, 
epispore yellowish brown, bluntly waited, or striate, 70-80 n diam. 
Had. On Pigeons’ dung, Kew, March, 1901. (Distrib. — Germany, 
Italy, France, Belgium, U.S.A. ; on decaying substances both animal 
and vegetable, also on dung.) 
Readily distinguished by the branched sporangiophore, each branch 
of which bears a small globose amber-coloured sporangium. Inter- 
stitial tun-shaped chlamydospores or ‘ gemmae ’ are met with abun- 
dantly on the prostrate mycelium. 
Pilobolus exiguus, Bain.; Fischer in Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl. Deutschh 
Bd. i, Abth. 4, 267 (1892); Sacc. Syll. Fung, vii, 187 (1888). 
Had. — On Goose-dung, Kew, Dec. 1900. 
Syncephalis intermedia, van Tiegh. (Figs. 23-26). 
S. intermedia , van Tiegh., in Ann. Sci. Nat. sdr. vi. I, 127, pi. 3, 
f. E (1875); Sacc. Syll. Fung, vii, 231 (1888); Fischer in Rabenh. 
Krypt.-Fl. Deutschl. Bd. i, Abth. 4, 304 (1892). 
Conidiophores single, unbranched, smooth, erect, aseptate, about 
\ mill, high, 20-45 P wide at the base, gradually tapering upwards 
to 13-22 n wide, apex swollen into a broadly obovate vesicle, 40-70 fx 
wide, bright yellow to yellowish brown ; basidial cells numerous, 
springing from evident warts scattered over the upper half of the 
vesicle, variable in shape on the same head, either simple or bluntly 
triangular, or regularly heart-shaped, or asymmetrical with one long 
and one very short protuberance, according to their shape with one or 
two chains of conidia; conidia in upright chains, surrounded by 
mucilage, 10-15 in a chain, cylindrical or slightly barrel-shaped, pale 
yellowish-brown, 6-10 x 4-5 
Had. — On Rabbit-dung, Leith Hill, Surrey, Mar. 1901. (Distrib. — 
France and Germany, on Horse-dung, and also parasitic on Muco- 
rineae.) 
S. intermedia is characterized by the great variability in the shape of 
the basidial cells. These latter, intermixed on the same head, are found 
to be partly regularly cordate, resembling those found in S. cordata , 
van Tiegh. and Le Monn., and partly asymmetrical, like those of 
A. asymmetrical van Tiegh. and Le Monn. (see Figs. 25, 26). The 
present plant is, therefore, clearly intermediate between these two 
