82 Mas see and Salmon . — Researches on 
In the work cited above, Saccardo and Marchal founded the new 
genus Cladorkinum on the present species, which proves on careful 
examination to belong to the previously described genus Botryo - 
sporium. The mistake probably arose through examination of the 
material in water, in which medium the true conidia immediately fall 
away from the asperulate swollen apex of the conidiophore on which 
they are produced, and these one or two swollen portions of the 
conidiophores were, as is shown by the figures given by the authors, 
mistaken for the conidia of the Fungus. 
Acrostalagmus cinnabarinus, Corda, Icon. Fung, ii, 15, f. 66 
(1838); Sacc. Syll. Fung, iv, 163 (1886) ; Mass. Brit. Fung. Flor. iii, 
331 (1893). 
Hah . — On Pigeons’ dung, Kew, Nov. 1900. 
This beautiful Fungus, which forms effused patches of a deep 
reddish-orange or vermilion colour, is not uncommon on decaying 
vegetable matter, but has not been hitherto recorded as occurring on 
dung in this country. 
Verticillium lateritium, Berk., in Cooke’s Handb. 635 (1871); 
Sacc. Syll. Fung, iv, 156 (1886); Mass. Brit. Fung. FI. iii, 330 
( i 8 93 )- 
Hah . — On Hare- and Rabbit-dung, Kew, Dec. 1900 and Feb. 1901. 
A common species forming dull orange or brick-red patches on 
various decaying vegetable substances, but not previously recorded as 
growing on dung. 
Closely resembling Acrostalagmus cinnabarinus, Corda, in colour 
and in the verticillate arrangement of the branches, but readily 
distinguished by the minute conidia being solitary at the tips of the 
branchlets. 
Rhopalomyces elegans, Corda; Sacc. Syll. Fung, iv, 50 (1889) ; 
Mass. Brit. Fung. FI. iii, 291 (1893). 
Hah . — On Hares’ dung, Kew, April, 1901 ; on Cats’ dung, and on 
earth intermixed, Kew, Aug. 1901. 
This species appeared in profusion on the dung, after this had been 
kept for some weeks under a bell-jar. It has not been previously 
recorded on dung. 
Aspergillus clavatus, Desmaz. (Fig. 104). 
A. clavatus , Desmaz., in Ann. Sci. Nat. s 6 r. ii, II, 71, pi. 2, f. 4 
(1834); Sacc. Fung. Ital. t. 701 (1881) ; Sacc. Syll. Fung, iv, 67 
(1886). 
