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10-12 pin diameter, 8-spored ; spores globose-orbicular 4°5-5°5 pu in 
diameter ; conidiophores rising both from the asci-bearing and 
enveloping hyphae, bearing above verticillate branches with chains of 
loosely-attached oval conidia at the tips. 
On dog’s dung. Llanymawddwy, N. Wales, Sept. 1900. 
G. verticillatus A. L. Sm. Journ. Roy. Micros. Soc. 1900, p. 423, 
pi. iii, fig. 2. 3 
Fruit composed of loose, deep-brown hyphae, the outer ends free, 
thick walled, with regular verticils of 4 curved blunt branchlets up 
to 15 win length and about 5 « in width, the inner ends narrower, 
irregularly branched, the branches somewhat angular, the whole 
forming tangled clumps ; ascus-like groups of spores somewhat 
oblong 10"@X 7 My dark-coloured; spores minute, globose, about 2°5 
in diameter. 
On the bones of a dead rabbit that, had been buried under a tree, 
in a garden at Isleworth, for about a year. ‘The asci were evidently 
quickly evanescent, but many groups of 8 spores closely compacted 
were scattered about. 
Thielavia Zopf. in Sitzungsber d. Botan. Ver. d. Prov. Brandenbg,, 
June, 1876, p. 105. ae 
Perithecia globose, without appendages and without an ostiole ; 
asci 8-spored, short and broad, evanescent, no paraphyses ; spores 
brown, one-celled ; conidia formed terminally in chains and also 
endogenously in the hyphae. 
Thielavia Soppittii Crossl. Naturalist, Jan. 1900, p. 7, pl. 10, figs. 
Perithecia scattered or sub-gregarious, superficial without a stoma, 
subglobose, red-brown, fragile, membranaceous 250 u in height ; 
asci elliptical or ovate, evanescent, 56-60 x 35 w3 spores somewhat 
elliptical unequal-sided ; epispore thick, hyaline yellow, then opaque- 
brown, granular within, 28-30 x 16 p. oe 
Near the base of decaying stems of Carduus palustris. Norland, 
near Halifax. Coll. Mr.H. T. Soppitt, Nov. 1899. 
Sphaerotheca Mors-uvae Berk. & Curt. in Grev. IV., p. 158. 
Mycelium dense, rather thick, forming spots on the leaf with a 
white margin, dusky-brown at the centre; perithecia minute, 
numerous, scattered, black, globose-applanate, wrinkled, at length 
emerging from the mycelium; spores 15 long. 
On leaves and berries of gooseberry. Ireland. Mr. E. Salmon. 
Hypocopra Serignanesis H. Fab. Sphaer. Vaucl., p. 77. 
Perithecia scattered, superficial, black, cylindrical-conical, wrinkled 
