35i 
Coprophilous Fungi . 
S. longicollis, sp. nov. (Fig. 27). 
Peritheciis sparsis 0-75-1 mm. altis semi-immersis demum super- 
ficialibus subglobosis olivaceis membranaceis conlextu parenchymatico 
e cellulis polygonis 6-10 /* latis composito glabris vel basi hyphis 
repentibus instructis, in rostrum longissimum cylindricum atrum 
rugulosum apice fimbriatum plus minus dilatatum abrupte attenuatis ; 
ascis cylindraceis, 110-130x13-15/* deorsum in stipitem attenuatis, 
octosporis, citissime diffluentibus ; sporis monostichis oblongis utrinque 
rotundatis 15-19 X 5 /*hyalinis i-septatis medio haud constrictis demum 
in spuma mucilaginosa ex ore rostri ejectis ; conidiis in eodem perithecio 
productis, oblongis, hyalinis, 17-20/* longis, i-septatis, basi plus 
minus attenuatis, in conidiophoris simplicibus brevibus acrogenis. 
Hab . — In fimo equino, Epping Forest, Essex, October, 1900. 
The perithecia of the present fungus, which appeared on some 
Horse-dung soon after it was collected, readily attract attention by 
reason of the long upright black cylindrical beaks. At maturity the 
spores are seen issuing forth from the apex of the beak in the mucilage 
formed by the deliquescence of the asci, &c. The mouth of the beak 
is composed of loosely arranged easily separating hyphae, which 
during the ejection of the spores are forced apart by the mucilaginous 
mass, so that the apex of the beak at this time is more or less dilated. 
The conidia precede the asci in the same perithecium, and the 
Fungus in this stage appears to be identical with Rhyncophoma , Karst, 
emend, (see Allescher, in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. Deutschl., 6. Abth., vol. i, 
P . 711). 
Xylaria peduneulata (Dicks.), Fi\; Sacc. Syll. Fung, i, 332 (1882). 
Sphaeria peduneulata, Dicks., PI. Crypt. Brit, iv, 27, Tab. XII, f. 8 
(1801). 
The spores in Dickson’s type-specimen measure 50x22-24/*, 
and so slightly exceed the measurement (‘40x20’) given by Sac- 
cardo, &c. 
Hypocraeaceae. Sphaeroderma fimbriatum, Rostr. (Fig. 23). 
S. fimbriatum, Rostr., in Meddel. om Groenland, xviii, 67 (1895); 
Sacc. Syll. Fung, xi, 356 (1895). 
Perithecia scattered or subgregarious, superficial, about ^ mm. diam., 
globose with a mamilliform ostiolum, which is surmounted by a tuft 
of short (60-100 x 4-6 /*) rigid colourless hairs, otherwise glabrous or 
with a few spreading hyphal outgrowths near the base, at first yellowish, 
