Coprophilous Fungi. II \ 81 
1900; on manure, Kew, Dec. 1900. (Distrib. — France, Germany, 
Italy, Belgium; on Tuber cularia and Sclerotia, and on branches of 
trees.) 
Densely gregarious, forming a delicate film, white at first, then 
tinged rose- or salmon-colour. Distinguished from its allies by the 
large size of its conidia. Saccardo states that the present species 
grows on Tubercularia and on Sclerotia , and on branches of trees, 
but in this country it has been met with only on dung. (Smith’s 
record (Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. 1899-1900, p. 151) of the species 
occurring in Yorkshire ‘ on Tubercularia and Sclerotia on branches of 
trees ’ is an error, the substratum being Horse-dung.) 
Sterigmatocystis dufoia (Berk, and Br.), Sacc. 
^ Hab . — On Mouse-dung, Kew, Aug. 1901. 
Botrytis pilulifera, Sacc. (Fig. 120). 
Botrytis pilulifera , Sacc., in Mich, ii, 122 (1880); Sacc. Fung. 
Ital. t. 695 (1881); Sacc. Syll. Fung, iv, 118 (1886). 
Forming dense snow-white floccose tufts ; sterile hyphae prostrate, 
branched, interwoven ; fertile hyphae assurgent with simple or forked 
branchlets towards the apex, conidia globose hyaline, 18-24 /*, minutely 
verruculose at maturity. 
Hab . — On Fowls’ dung, Kew, Jan. 1901. (Distrib. — France, on 
Cats’ dung.) 
A very fine species, persistently snow-white, and scarcely agreeing 
in habit with the typical condition of Botrytis , differing in the very 
compact, interwoven sterile mycelium. 
Botryosporium foecundissimum (Sacc. and March.) (Figs. 
71-75)- 
Cladorhinum foecundissimum , Sacc. and March., in Bull. Soc. Roy. 
Bot. Belg. xxiv, pt. 1, 64, pi. 1, fF. 1, 2 (1885) ; Sacc. Syll. Fung, iv, 
330 (1886). 
Tufts at first white, then greyish, rather dense, sub-velvety ; fertile 
hyphae creeping, repeatedly and intricately branched at right angles, 
4-5 [x thick, closely septate ; conidiophores short lateral patent, swollen 
at the apex into one or two minutely spinulose globose heads ; conidia 
minute, crowded into a globose head, at once dispersing in water, 
globose, hyaline, i-5-2/x diam., springing from the minute spines on 
the swollen head of the conidiophore. 
Hab.— On the dung of Giraffe ( Camelopardalis giraffa ), Kew, Feb. 
1901. (Distrib. — Belgium, on the dung of Wild Boar.) 
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