342 Mas see and Salmon . — Researches on 
from 30-60 ix across the base. Only a few spores were seen, 
measuring 20-22 x 10-12 /*, and provided at one end with a rather 
long hyaline appendage. The asci seen were few, and ill-developed, 
and it seems therefore possible that the present form is to be regarded 
as a monstrous development of some species of Sordaria , induced by 
unfavourable (abnormal) conditions. It may be mentioned that the 
Kangaroo-dung was fully exposed to the effects of the weather, and 
for a few days was buried under a heavy fall of snow. 
S. fimicola (Rob.), Ces. and De Not.; Wint., Deutsch. Sordar. 81, 
Taf. VII, f. 6 (1873); Sacc. Syll. Fung, i, 240 (1882), sub Hypocopra. 
Hab. — On the dung of Elephant ( Elephas africanus ), Hare ( Lepus 
europaeus), and Kangaroo (Macropus gig anteus), Kew, Dec. 1900. 
On the Elephant’s dung the perithecia are quite superficial, and 
only very loosely attached to fragments of straw, &c. The layer of 
mucilage surrounding the spores (which are minutely pointed at one 
end just as in S. macrospora , Auersw.) is usually rather wide, measur- 
ing 4-5 fi across at each side of the spore. 
S. platyspora, Plowr., in Grevill. vi, 28, Tab. XCIV, f. 2 (1877); 
Sacc. Syll. Fung, i, 241 (1882), sub Hypocopra. 
Hab. — On Horse-dung, Kew Green, and Hastings, England, Dec. 
1900. 
The Kew specimens are remarkable for the irregularity in the 
shape of some of the ascospores, which instead of showing the 
normal almost circular form (when seen from the front), have a nearly 
square or irregularly waved outline. 
S. curvula, De Bary; Wint., Deutsch. Sordar. 101, Taf. XI, f. 22 
(1873); Sacc. Syll. Fung, i, 233 (1882). 
Hab. — On the dung of Mexican Deer ( Cariacus mexicanus ), Giraffe 
(1 Camelopardalis giraffa ), and Elephant ( Elephas africanus ), Kew, 
Oct. 1900. 
On the dung of the first-named animal the perithecia were quite 
superficial, and attached by a dense weft of colourless hyphae. 
S. minuta, Fckl.; Wint., Deutsch. Sordar. 100, Taf. XI, f. 21 (1873); 
Sacc. Syll. Fung, i, 231 (1882). 
Hab. — On Rabbit-dung, Kew, Dec. 1900, with tetrasporous asci; 
on the dung of Mexican Deer ( Cariacus mexicanus ) and Sinaitic 
Ibex (Capra sinaitic a), Kew, Jan. 1901, with octosporous asci; on 
the dung of Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus), Kew, Feb. 1901, — a 
form with eight somewhat lemon-shaped, inaequilateral spores. 
