340 
Massee and Salmon,— Researches on 
S. neglecta, Hans., in Vidensk. Meddel., 1876, p. 335, Tab. IX, if. 
12-18 (1876-77); Sacc. Syll. Fung, i, 232 (1882). 
Perithecia rather large, about 1 mm. high, semi-immersed, basal 
part subglobose, narrowed upwards into a short blackish bluntly 
conical or papilliform neck; asci longly cylindrical or somewhat 
fusiform, narrowed into a long stalk, rounded at apex, 400-500 x 35 ^ 
8-spored ; spores uniseriate, broadly ovoid, 40-50 x 25-29 /*, provided 
at each end with a permanent hyaline usually curved appendage, about 
equalling the spore in length. 
Hab. — On Cow-dung, Reigate, England, Nov. 1900. (Distrib.— 
Denmark, on Cow- and Horse-dung.) 
A fine and apparently uncommon species, distinguished by its large 
spores with two permanent appendages. 
S. Winteri, Karst. (Fig. 5). 
A. Winteri , Karst., Myc. Fenn. ii, 251 (1873); Sacc. Syll. Fung, i, 
234 (1882). 
S. breviseta , Karst, (nec Fckl.), Myc. Fenn. ii, 52 (1873). 
Perithecia scattered or gregarious, at first immersed, becoming free, 
^ mm. high, basal part subglobose, olivaceous, narrowed upwards 
into a short conical blackish neck, which is more or less covered 
with short, scattered, rigid, acute, septate dark brown hairs; asci 
cylindrical-clavate, pedicellate, sporiferous part about 150x30-40/*, 
8-spored; spores ellipsoid, 23-25x15-16/*, provided at the basal 
end with a hyaline appendage slightly shorter than the spore. 
Hab. — On Horse-dung, Kew Green, England, Dec. 1900. (Distrib. — 
Finland, on dung of Horse, Cow, and Hare.) 
S. fimiseda, Ces. et De Not., var. appendiculata (Auersw.) 
(Fig. 16). 
S. appendiculata , Auersw., Niessl. Beitr., p.. 38, Tab. V, f. 40 
(1872); Sacc. Syll. Fung, i, 234 (1882). 
A. fimiseda , Ces. et De Not., Wint. in Hedwigia, xiii, 55, f. v 
(partim) (1874); Wint., Deutsch. Sordar. 89, Taf. IX, f. 13 (partim) 
(1877). 
Podospora fimiseda , var. appendiculata (Auersw.), Wint. in Rabenh. 
Krypt.-Fl. Deutschl., Bd. i, Abth. 2, 170 (1887). 
Perithecia scattered or gregarious in small clusters, superficial, ovate- 
conical in general outline, basal part ovate-globose narrowed upwards 
into a short thick usually curved neck, blackish-brown, basal part of 
perithecium covered with long soft flexuose spreading hairs, which are 
