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Massee and Salmon. — Researches on 
Hab.-— In fimo cuniculorum, Reigate, England, Nov. 1900. 
An interesting species, most nearly allied to C. atrum , Sacc., from 
which it differs in the smaller spores and the much longer and more 
numerous marginal setae. 
Volutella ciliata, Fr. ; Sacc. Syll. Fung, iv, 682 (1886); Mass. 
Brit. Fung. FI. iii, 473 (1893). 
Hab . — On Hares’ dung, Kew, Mar. 1891. 
This species, which does not appear to have hitherto been noticed 
on dung, appeared in some profusion on Hares' dung after it had been 
kept for some weeks under a bell-jar. 
Graphiuin Comatrichoides, sp. nov. (Figs. 89-91). 
Caespitosum, 1-1J mill, altum, totum aterrimum ; stipitibus 
gracilibus filiformibus erectis basi circ. 20 /a crassis sursum vix 
attenuatis ex hyphis fuligineis fasciculatis compositis, apice penicillato- 
expansis, capitulo globoso majusculo primum muco obvoluto, conidiis 
in hypharum apice pallidiore insertis numerosissimis hyalinis oblongis 
utrinque obtusis circ. 7 x 2-5 \x. 
Hab . — In fimo La?nae guanaco (Llama), Kew, Oct. 1901. 
In habit agreeing with G. stilboideum , Corda (Ic. Fung, ii, f. 69 ; 
Sacc. Fung. Ital. Tab. 14), but differing in the black capitulum. The 
present species much resembles in general appearance species of 
Comatricha in an immature condition. 
G. stercorarium, March. (Figs. 124-126). 
G. siercorartum, March., in Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. xxxiv, 143, 
pi. 1, f. 5 (1895); Sacc. Syll. Fung, xiv, mi (1900). 
Gregarious, stems rigid, erect, about 30 /x in diam., -|-i mill, high, 
blackish, paler towards apex, surmounted by a subglobose head ; 
conidia very numerous, hyaline, oblong to subcylindrical, rounded at 
both ends, 8 x 3 
Hab . — On dung of Monkey, Gold Coast, Africa (W. H. Johnston, 
Oct. 1901). (Distrib. — Belgium ; on dung of Hare and Goose, and on 
cloth covered with dung.) 
Examples of this Graphium in a dried condition occurred on some 
Monkeys’ dung sent by Mr. W. H. Johnston from the Gold Coast; 
and the species afterwards appeared in great plenty at Kew on the 
same dung after it had been kept damp for a week or two. The 
above description, which agrees in all essential points with that 
given by Marchal ( 1 . c.), was drawn up from the living Kew 
examples. 
