Part 1, 1910] FIMETARIACEAE 67 
hyaline envelope not surrounding the entire spore but having its edges attached around 
the germ-pore, which it does not inclose on stretching. 
On dung of horses, cows, goats, rabbits, sheep, and deer; also on old paper. 
TYPE LOCALITY: France. 
DisTRIBUTION: Vermont to Oregon, Arizona, and Alabama ; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Mem. Torrey Club 11: fl. 3, f. 19-21; pl. 4, f. 8-10. 
EXSICCATI : Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2550, 2749. 
5. Fimetaria humana (Fuckel) Griffiths & Seaver. 
Sphaeria humana Fuckel, Fungi Rhen. 1801. 1866. 
flypocopra humana Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 241. 1869. 
Sordaria humana Wint. Bot. Zeit. 30: 835. 1872. 
Sordaria sphaerospora Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. 128. 1892. 
flypocopra sphaerospora Sace. Syll. Fung. 11: 280. 1895. 
Perithecia scattered and sunken, with projecting papilliform beaks, or aggregate in solid 
clusters and erumpent in such a way as-to be completely exposed at maturity, about 350 
X 600 #, thin, membranaceous, dark-brown to black, pyriform with papilliform to slightly 
cylindric beak ; asci 8-spored, cylindric, broadly rounded to truncate above and tapering 
below into a short blunt stipe, quite persistent, 17-19 160-200 « ; paraphyses large, ven- 
tricose, longer than the asci and not much mixed with them; spores obliquely 1-seriate, 
obovoid, broadly rounded above and acutely so below, 14-18 21-23 u, ran ging from hyaline 
when young through olivaceous to dark-brown and opaque; hyaline envelope becoming 
very prominent in water and covering the entire spore except the circular germ-pore at 
lower end of the spore, around which it appears firmly attached. 
On human dung, and on dung of dogs, cows, goats, and pigs. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe, 
DISTRIBUTION : New York to Louisiana and South Dakota; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Mem. Torrey Club 11: 1.3, f. 16-18, pl. 4, f. 14-16. 
6. Fimetaria montanensis (D. Griff.) Griffiths & Seaver. 
Sordaria montanensis D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 49. 1901. 
Hypocopra montanensis Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 605. 1905. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, 450-600 < 750-900 u, thin, membranaceous, dark-brown 
to black in color, subglobose to ovoid with a long black cylindric projecting beak ; all ex- 
posed portions, especially the beak, densely covered with short straight acuminate spar- 
ingly septate hairs of approximately equal length, these becoming gradually changed into 
the long flexuous rhizoids which cover the sunken portions of the perithecium; asci 8- 
spored, cylindric, rounded or truncate and perforate at the apex, and tapering below into 
a long stout stipe, quite persistent, 29-32 * 340-400; paraphyses filiform, septate, 
slightly longer than the asci; spores obliquely 1-seriate, ellipsoid, broadly rounded at the 
ends, 24-27 X 45-514, tipped below by a broad, conspicuous, hyaline apiculus, and at the. 
apex by a very much smaller inconspicuous one; the spore and its apiculus surrounded by 
a hyaline envelope which becomes very wide and conspicuous when mounted in water. 
On dung of horses and cows. . 
TYPE LOCALITY: (Grown on material from) Missoula, Montana. 
DISTRIBUTION : Montana. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Mem. Torrey Club 11: £1.39, f. 1-3; pl. 19, f. 13. 
7. Fimetaria alpina (D. Griff.) Griffiths & Seaver. 
Sordaria alpina D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 49. 1901. 
Hypocopra alpina Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 605. 1905. 
Perithecia sunken, scattered, or aggregate in small clusters, pyriform, thin, mem- 
branaceons, olivaceous below but black in all exposed portions, about 0.5 X 1 mm., the black 
projecting long stout cylindric beak, as well as all exposed portions of the perithecium, 
densely and uniformly covered with rather short, stout, abundantly septate, brown, hyaline- 
tipped, straight hairs; asci 8-spored, cylindric, slightly contracted and rounded above and 
gradually narrowed below into a long slender straight, curved, or crooked stipe, 18-20 
270-350 u, persistent; paraphyses abundant, septate, often slightly constricted at lower 
septa, mixed with and much longer than the asci; spores 1-seriate, ellipsoid, rounded at 
both ends, ranging from hyaline when young through olivaceous to dark-brown and 
