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Massee and Salmon . — Researches on 
Abth. 2, 179 (1887); Schroet. in Cohn’s Krypt.-Fl. Schles., Bd. iii, 
Halfte 2, 290 (1894). 
Perithecia minute, about J-mm. high, at first subimmersed, but 
becoming almost free, subgregarious, subglobose, with a short thick 
blunt blackish neck, which is covered with short scattered rigid dark 
setae; asci narrowly cylindrical, 170-200x12-18^; spores obliquely 
1 -seriate or sometimes irregularly biseriate, oblong or ellipsoid, 
straight, constricted at the septum, provided at each end with a 
minute subhyaline wart-like apiculus, 20-22x8-9 /*, surrounded by 
a narrow layer of mucilage. 
Had . — On Rabbit-dung, Reigate, England, Nov. 1900. (Distrib. — 
Austria-Hungary, on dung of Hare.) 
The bristly perithecia and the wart-like apiculus of the spores 
distinguish the present species from the commoner D. minuta , Fckl. 
D. insignis, Mout. (Fig, 20). 
D. insignis , Mout., in Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. xxxvi, part 2, 13, 
t. A, ff. 7, 8 (1897); Sacc. Syll. Fung. (Supp.) xiv, 558 (1900). 
Perithecia about 1 mm. high, more or less scattered, immersed, 
glabrous, basal part globose-ovate, olivaceous, narrowed upwards into 
a rather long, cylindrical, stout, blackish-brown neck ; asci elongate- 
cylindrical, 300-320 x 25-30 fi, rounded at the apex, gradually 
narrowed below into the stalk, 8-spored ; paraph yses septate, filiform, 
often branched, longer than the asci; spores biseriate, oblong, some- 
what rounded at the ends, deeply constricted and eventually separating 
at the septum, 44-67x10-16 (rarely 20) n, provided at each end 
with a hyaline straight or flexuous appendage about equalling the 
spore in length. 
Had . — On Horse-dung, Epping Forest, Essex, Oct, 1900, and Kew, 
Nov. 1900. (Distrib. — Belgium, on Cow-dung.) 
We are indebted to Prof. Saccardo for the identification of this species. 
D. insignis is a fine and well-marked species, and it is somewhat remark- 
able that it has for so long escaped notice. The plant was originally 
discovered by Mouton (l.c.) in 1897, on Cow-dung, in Belgium, and this 
remained the only locality known until in November last we met with 
the species on Horse-dung in Epping Forest. It is possible that D. 
insignis may occur not uncommonly in this country, as a search on 
Horse-dung at Kew at once resulted in finding the species. D. insignis , 
together with another species — D. sordarioides , Speg., from S. America 
— are peculiar in the genus in possessing caudate appendages in the 
