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Coprophilous Fungi . 
fuliginous, septate, and about 2-3 [i wide, neck, especially at apex, 
densely covered with similar but shorter and erect hairs, wall of 
perithecium composed of small cells about 5 /x wide ; asci cylindrical, 
about 220 x 30-35 /x, gradually attenuated into a long stalk, 8-spored ; 
spores broadly elliptical, 28-30 x 19-20 fi, appendiculate at each end, 
basal appendage persistent, rather stout, shorter than the spore (15-18 /a), 
bearing at the free end a secondary flexuose narrower appendage, 
50-60 n long, which soon disappears, apical appendage longer than 
the spore, evanescent. 
Hah . — On dung of Mexican Deer ( Cariacus mexicanus), Kew, 
Jan. 1901. (Distrib. — Germany, on dung of Hare.) 
As Winter points out, the present Fungus differs from -S’, fimiseda, 
Ces. and De Not., only in the smaller spores, which are about half 
the size of those of that species. If this difference were constant, 
it might be considered to afford a specific character, but Winter 
expressly states that he has found spores intermediate in size. It 
seems best, therefore, to place the present plant as a variety under 
S. fimiseda — the nature and development of the appendages of 
the spore being quite similar in both cases. As Winter (Deutsch. 
Sordar. p. 90) has remarked, the basal appendage, which appears 
first, represents a true cell, and is quite different in origin from the 
two secondary appendages : ‘ Dass diese Anhangsel auch morpho- 
logisch verschieden sind, wurde schon gesagt ; das an der Basis 
der Spore direct ansitzende ist eine specifische Zelle, die beiden 
anderen oflfenbar nur gallertartigquellende Verdickungen der Membran 
der Spore und des Hauptanhangsels.’ 
The example here recorded on the dung of Mexican Deer differs 
apparently from the usual form, which is described as ‘covered all 
over with short septate hairs,’ in the longer denser hairs of the 
perithecium, and the compact apical tuft. 
Sordaria sp. (Fig. 17). 
A remarkable form, or species, of Sordaria occurred on Kangaroo- 
dung exposed for some months to the open air. The perithecia were 
black, rather large (f-i mm. high, \ mm . wide), densely crowded, 
and held together at the base by a byssoid stroma composed of brown 
interwoven hyphae. The most remarkable feature, however, was the 
wall of the perithecium, the external cells of which were nearly all 
transformed into broad-based spine- or prickle-like structures, each 
composed of a single cell. Each prickle-like cell (Fig. 17) measured 
