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more or less completely immersed, is when young of a pure white 
colour, but finally becomes at the time of the maturity of the 
perithecia of a dull rusty colour. It may in advanced age disappear 
altogether, leaving the perithecia exposed, but held together in masses 
by the interwoven elastic spiral appendages. The appendages remain 
permanently hyaline, and closely spirally wound. They are com- 
pressed and ribbon-like in structure and arise from the equatorial 
and basal cells of the external wall of the perithecium. The append- 
ages when drawn out are seen to be very long, many times exceeding 
the diameter of the perithecium. The spores remain for some time 
hyaline, but become finally distinctly fuliginous. 
Eurotium insigne, Wint. (Figs. 29, 39-40). 
E. insigne , Wint., in Rabenh. Fung, eur., nr. 1732 (1874) ; Wint. in 
Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl. Deutschl., Bd. i, Abth. 2, 61 (1887), 
Penicillium insigne (Wint.), Schroet, in Cohn's Krypt.-Fl. Schles., 
Bd. iii, 220 (1893). 
The conidial form of this species is Gliocladium penicilloides, Corda, 
Icon. Fung. iv. 31, PI. VII, f. 92 (1840); Grove, in Journ. of Bot. 
xxiii, 165, tab. 256, f. 9 (1885) ; Sacc. SylL Fung, iv, 85 (1886); 
Massee, Brit. Fung. FI. iii, 293 (1893); Matruch., in Rev. g^ndr. d. 
Bot. vii, 322, PI. XVI, ff. 1-10 (1895). 
G. macropodinum, March., in Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. xxxiv, pt. i, 
135, PI. I, f. 6, a, b (1895) ; Sacc. Syll. Fung, xiv, 1048 (1900). 
Mycelium inconspicuous, perithecia large, \-i mm. in diam., super- 
ficial, globose, glabrous, when young clear white, then pallid, becoming 
yellowish, and finally rusty-brown, thin-walled, membranaceous, wall 
composed of large polygonal or irregularly-shaped cells 15-20 [x wide ; 
asci numerous, subglobose or globose-pyriform, with a short stalk, 
45-65 x 38-45 n, very evanescent, 8-spored ; spores large, globose, 
17-20 /x diam., covered all over with short acute spines, at first 
colourless, becoming distinctly grey. 
Hab.— On dung of Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus), Kew, Jan. 1901 ; 
on dung of Burrhel Wild Sheep (Ovi$ burrhel), Mar. 1901 ; on dung 
of Fowls, Kew, Jan. 1901 ; on Horse-dung (originally from Epping 
Forest), Kew, Feb. 1901, (Distrib. — (of ascigerous form), Germany 
and France ; on dung of Goose and Dog.) 
A remarkable and very distinct species in its large size and strongly 
spinous spores, which finally become distinctly grey in colour. Winter, 
in first describing the Eurotium in Rab. Fung. Eur., remarked that 
