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Coprophilous Fungi . 
about 150 ix long, but varying in length from 50-300 fx, bristles some- 
times arranged in tufts; asci about 15, 250-300 x 50-60 m, broadly 
cylindrical or ventricose, narrowed towards the apex, shortly stalked, 
wall very thin, soon deliquescing, 128-spored; paraphyses multisep- 
tate, filiform, about equalling the asci ; spores greenish-black, ellipsoid, 
18-20 x io-ii n (collected into a mass measuring about 250 x 55 m), 
at first with appendages at both ends, but eventually with a single 
straight hyaline appendage at the basal end only, usually slightly 
shorter than the spore. 
Hab. — On Rabbit-dung, Kew, England, Jan. 1901 ; on dung of 
Giraffe (Camelopardalis giraffa ), Red Deer ( Cervus elaphus ), Mexican 
Deer ( Cariacus mexicanus), Sinaitic Ibex ( Capra sinaitica ), Dorcas 
Goat (C. dorcas), Ural Wild Sheep (Ovis vignei), Kew, Nov. 1900- 
Feb. 1901. (Distrib. — Germany; on dung of Goose and Sheep, 
also cultivated on Horse- and Cow-dung, and on paper saturated 
with dung.) 
The present species is easily distinguished from most of the 
Sordariae by its many-spored asci ; from S. pleiospora , Wint., de- 
scribed below, it differs in its more hairy perithecium, and the 
more numerous much smaller spores; from S. curvicolla , Wint., 
it is distinguished by its slightly larger spores and by the ascus 
being narrowed towards the apex (Fig. 13). The spores at a 
certain stage in their development possess thread-like appendages, 
often apparently of indefinite length, at each end, but when the 
spores are mature, or nearly so, only a single appendage, about 
3 m wide and slightly shorter than the spore, is found at the basal 
end. Winter (Deutsch. Sordar. ( 1 . c.)) figures and fully describes 
the development of the spores. Zukal (53) states that the stiff 
bristle-like hairs surrounding the ostiolum first appear towards the 
end of the period of the ejaculation of the spores. 
S. curvicolla, Wint. (Fig. 12). 
£. curvicolla, , Wint., in Hedwigia, x, 16 1 (1871); Wint., Deutsch. 
Sordar. 98, Taf. X, f. 19 (1877); Speg. in Michel, i, 228 (1878). 
Philocopra curvicolla (Wint.), Sacc. Syll. Fung, i, 250 (1882). 
Podospora curvicolla , Wint., in Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl. Deutschl., Bd. i, 
Abth. 2, 176 (1887). 
Perithecia scattered, immersed to the base of the neck, basal part 
ovate-globose narrowed upwards into a rather long thick obtuse neck, 
wall parenchymatous, upper part of perithecium, including the neck, 
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