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Magnusia nitida Sacc. Mich, I. (1878), p. 123. Mass. and Salm 
Ley pi 69, figs. t-5. - 
On dung of Sinaitic Ibex. On rabbit dung, Reigate. 
Chaetomium simile Mass and Salm., l.c., p. 71, figs. 8, 9. 
On dog’s dung, Kew. 
C. crispatum Fuck. Sym. Myc., p. go. 
Perithecia gregarious, broadly elliptical about 4 mm. in height ; 
terminal hairs of two kinds, awl-shaped straight or slightly wavy, 
septate hyaline-brown; or of a cork-screw form, dark brown or alain 
black, and rough ; asci cylindrical, shortly stalked, about 100 x 10p, 
8- spored ; ; spores ’ broadly elliptical, pointed at both ends 12 x 1Op, 
olive-brown. 
On decaying hyacinth bulbs. Norwood. 
C. bostrychoides Zopf. Sitzungsber. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. XIX. 
(1877), p. 173: 
On dung of giraffe, burrhel wild sheep and mouse, Kew. Mass. 
and Salmon, l.c., p. 72. figs. 6, 7. 
Sordaria bombardisides Auersw. Niessl. a zur Kenntniss der 
Pilze (1872), p. 37, Tab. VL., fig. 
On dung of llama, Kew. Mass ina ia Lt. p. 73 
fo" 
Delitschia insignis Mouton. Compt. rend. Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. 
Belg. XXXVI. (1897), 2 part, p. 13, t. A. fi 8. 
Perithecia globose, immersed, smooth, coriaceous 4-3 mm, in 
diameter, ostiole rather long and stout, asci fusoid cylindrical, pedi- 
cellate, sporiferous parts 180-200p x 30m, stalks 30-50 long, para- 
physes filiform, septate, longer than the asci; spores bi-seriate, ‘oblong, 
round and obtuse at the apex, brown, constricted, I-septate, the 
lower parts sometimes faintly septate, without a zone of mucous 
but bearing a fine hyaline appendage 40-60 x 15. 
On horse dung. E.S. Salmon, Epping Forest. Found originally 
on cow dung. Mass. & Salm. Ann. Bot. vol. XV., p. 344. 
Fuligo ochracea Peck. Lister's Mon. Mycetozoa, p. 67. 
On the stem of a withered plant of Pteris aquilina, “The Horner 
Valley, Porlock, Somerset, 8th Nov., 1901, Mrs. A. Montague. 
This Myxomycete has only been found once before in Britain, viz.: 
at Aran Mawddwy, Merionethshire (see Journ. Bot. 1901, p. 84): 
