325 
Coprop hi Ions Fungi, 
Gymnoaseus Beessii, Baran. in Bot. Zeit., xxx, 158, Taf. Ill, A 
(1872); Sacc. Syll. Fung, viii, 823 (1889); Mass. Brit. Fung. FI. iv, 
19 (excluding Fig. 45, p. 12) (1895). 
Hah . — On the dung of Red Deer ( Cervus elaphus ), Sinaitic Ibex 
( [Capra sinaitic a), Roe ( Capreolus capraed ), Giraffe ( Camelopardalis 
girajfa), Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus ) and Rabbit, Kew, Nov.-Mar. 
1901. 
Myxotriehum uncinatum (Eidam), Schroet. (Figs. 30-32). 
Gymnoaseus uncinatus , Eidam, in Cohn's Beitr., Bd. iii, 293 (1880) ; 
Wint. in Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl. Deutschl., Bd. i, Abth. 2, 16 (1887); 
Sacc. Syll. Fung, viii, 824 (1889). 
Myxotrichum uncinaium (Eidam), Schroet. in Cohn's Krypt.-Fl. 
Schles., Bd. iii, Halfte 2, 212 (1893). 
Tufts rounded, gregarious, about f mm. across, at first sulphur- 
yellow, then becoming dark yellow, and finally reddish, hyphae inter- 
woven, much branched, usually at right angles, septate, towards the 
interior colourless and ascigerous, at the periphery anastomosing, 
reddish brown, with numerous long (120-200 x 5-6 g) orange or 
reddish- orange 1 -septate or aseptate branches, which at maturity are 
uncinate at the tip ; asci very numerous, subglobose, 8-9 \x in diameter, 
borne laterally in dense clusters on colourless hyphae towards the 
centre of the tuft, wall very evanescent, 8-spored ; spores minute 
laterally compressed, in front view subglobose, 2-5-4 p in diam., in 
side view ellipsoidal, yellowish, minutely asperous. 
Hah. — On Rabbit- dung, Kew, Dec. 1900; on dung of Patagonian 
Cavy (Dotichotis patachonica ), Kew, Feb. 1901. 
(. Distrih . — Germany, on dung of Mouse, Sparrow, and ‘ carnivorous 
animals/) 
Each tuft is more or less globular in shape, and is composed of 
a mass of interwoven hyphae. These hyphae are coloured at the 
periphery, and frequently anastomose, forming a network -like structure, 
which bears numerous long uncinate branches or appendages ; towards 
the interior of the ball-like mass the hyphae are colourless and much 
more delicate, and give origin to an immense number of minute asci. 
The wall of the ascus is more or less mucilaginous and very evanes- 
cent, so that the free spores are found in a dense mass towards the 
interior of each tuft. Frequently however the spores, after the 
deliquescence of the ascus- membrane, are held together by mucilage 
for some time in groups of eight. The spores, under a magnification of 
