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Massee and Salmon. — Researches on 
this Fungus grew is that of P ter opus medius , Temm., the Indian fruit 
Bat, or Flying-fox. The dung was deposited about August i. At 
this time the Jamun tree (. Eugenia Jambolana) was in ripe fruit, and 
this forms the favourite food of the Bat ; the faeces were composed of 
it alone. The dung was placed in water under a glass. The Fungus 
was gathered on Aug. 24. On Sept. 10 there was a fresh crop of the 
Fungus on the surface of the “ broth ” (i. e. the water in which the 
dung had been standing), and two Eugenia seeds had germinated. 
There is little doubt that the medium of the Fungus was the fleshy 
part of the fruit half-digested by the Bat/ 
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1. Massee, G., and Salmon, E. S. : Researches on Coprophilous Fungi 
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