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Coprophilous Fungi. 
a distinct stalk, 8-spored, 320-370 x 50-55 ju, spores 2-4-seriate, 120- 
155x17 -20 fx, imbricate and arranged in subparallel rows, elongate- 
cylindrical, straight or (usually) slightly curved, tetramerous, deeply 
constricted and readily separating at the septa, median cells oblong 
or cylindric with square ends, terminal cells elongate-conoid, each 
spore surrounded by a rather broad layer of mucilage. 
Hah. — On Rabbit-dung, Kew, Jan. 1901. (Distrib. — France, N. Italy, 
Denmark, Germany ; on dung of Sheep and Cow.) 
A comparison of Desmazihre's ‘ Hormospora ovina ’ in Desmaz. 
Crypt. Fr., 2 e s 6 r., nr. 98, with authentic specimens (coll. Hansen) 
of S. gigantea, Hans., in the Kew Herbarium, shows the two plants 
to be identical, and as ovina is the older specific name, this must 
be used for the present Sporormia. 
S. pulchella, Hans. (Fig. 2). 
S. pulchella, Hans., in Vidensk. Meddel. 1876, p. 320, Tab. IX, ff. 23- 
25 (1876-77); Pirotta, Mon. Spororm. 145 (1878); Niessl. in Oest. 
Bot. Zeit. xxviii, 95 (1878); Sacc. Syll. Fung, ii, 123 (1883); Wint. 
in Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl. Deutschl., Bd. i, Abth. 2, 181 (1887). 
Perithecia gregarious or scattered, black, almost spherical, with 
a very short bluntly conical or papilliform neck, about \ mm. across, 
almost completely immersed ; asci numerous, narrowly long-cylindrical, 
sometimes flexuose, rounded at the apex, narrowed below into a stalk, 
1 10-150 x 9-10 fi, 8-spored; paraphyses numerous, delicate, filiform, 
septate, sometimes branched, about as long as the asci; spores uni- 
seriate, subcylindrical, straight or curved, 17-20 x 5 /*, surrounded 
at first by a narrow layer of mucilage, tetramerous, constricted at 
the septa and readily separating, median cells somewhat barrel-shaped, 
terminal cells conical or subovate. 
Hah. — On Horse-dung, Kew Green, England, Dec. 1 900. (Distrib. — 
Denmark, Austria ; on Cow- and Sheep-dung.) 
S. pulchella is easily recognized by the numerous narrowly cylindrical 
asci with uniseriate spores. 
S. fimetaria, De Not. (Fig. 19). 
S. fimetaria, Not., Micr. ital. dec. v, p. 10 (1849); Auersw. in 
Hedwigia, vii, 69, Tab. I, f. vi (1868); Pirotta, Mon. Spororm. 160 
(1878); Sacc. Syll. Fung, ii, 132 (1883); Wint. in Rabenh. Krypt.- 
Fl. Deutschl., Bd. i, Abth. 2, 187 (1887). 
Hormospora fimetaria , De Not., in Giorn. Bot. Ital., tome ii, 47 
(1884). 
