68 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VorumE 3 
opaque, 12-14 & 20-37 u, with a minute hyaline apiculus at lower end of each spore; hyaline 
envelope narrow and swelling but slightly in water. 
On the dung of horses and cows. 
TYPE LocaLity: (Grown on material from) Summit, Montana. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 11: p1. 19, f. #6. 
8. Fimetaria seminuda (D. Griff.) Griffiths & Seaver. 
Sordaria seminuda D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11:50. 1901. 
Hypocopra seminuda Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 606. 1905, : 
Perithecia sunken, scattered or aggregate in small clusters, pyriform, thin, mem- 
branaceous, olivaceous below but black in all exposed portions, 300-400 < 500-600 », the 
black papilliform projecting beak and all exposed portions covered with short, straight, 
brown, hyaline-tipped hairs arranged in small groups or uniformly scattered; asci 
8-spored, cylindric, broadly rounded and perforated above and contracted below into 
a long, crooked stipe, 180-200 12-14, rather persistent; paraphyses filiform, septate, 
persistent, not numerous, seldom exceeding the asci in length; spores obliquely or 
vertically 1-seriate, ellipsoid or often ovoid, broadly rounded above but more acutely so 
below, 10-12 XK 16-224, ranging from hyaline when young through olivaceous to dark- 
brown and opaque; lower end of spore tipped with a short, hyaline, cylindric apiculus 
which is surrounded by a triangular hyaline envelope extending over the lower third of 
the spore. 
On dung of horses. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Summit, Montana. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 11: £/. 19, f. 10-Z2. 
9. Fimetaria discospora (Auersw.) Griffiths & Seaver. 
Sordaria discospora Auersw.; Niessl, Verh. Nat. Ver. Briinn 102: 192. 1872. 
Hypocopra discospora Fuckel, Jahrb, Nass. Ver. Nat. 27-28: 43. 1873. 
Sordaria platyspora Phill. & Plow. Grevillea 6: 28. 1877. 
Hypocopra platyspora Sacc. Syll. Fung. 1: 241. 1882. 
Perithecia scattered, usually sunken, 220-270 in diameter, thin, membranaceous and 
often quite brittle, dark-brown to black and opaque, subglobose to pyriform, with a short, 
papilliform to conic, black beak which is covered like the exposed portions of the perithe- 
cium with short, erect, dark-brown or black hairs; asci 8-spored, broadly rounded to trun- 
cate and perforate above, and contracted below into a short blunt stipe, 75-130 * 13-21 4; 
paraphyses filiform, septate, slightly longer than the asci; spores l-seriate, flattened, 
subcircular to broadly elliptic in one view and narrowly elliptic in the other, 8-11 * 10- 
18 », the germ-pore extending nearly the entire length of spore; hyaline envelope promi- 
nent when spores have been removed from the ascus. 
Type on dung of hare; American specimens on dung of horses and cows. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Leipzig, Germany. 
DISTRIBUTION : Rhode Island to Montana, Kansas, and Mississippi; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Mem. Torrey Club 11: 1.3, f. ¢-8 ; Grevillea 6: pl. 94, f. 2. 
10. Fimetaria leucoplaca (Berk. & Rav.) Griffiths & Seaver. 
Sphaeria leucoplaca Berk. & Rav.; Berk. Grevillea 4: 143. 1876. 
Sordaria microspora Phill. & Plow. Grevillea 6: 28. 1877. 
Hypocopra microspora Sacc. Syll. Fung. 1: 241. 1882. 
Hypocopra leucoplaca Sacc. Syll. Fung. 1: 244. 1882. 
Sordaria leucoplaca Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. 127. 1892. 
Perithecia scattered, superficial or sunken, 180-2504 in diameter, membranaceous and 
often quite brittle, subglobose to pyriform, with usually a short papilliform or conic beak 
which, together with all exposed portions, is uniformly covered with short, erect, dark- 
brown or black, septate hairs or bristles; asci 8-spored, cylindric, with a truncate perforate 
apex and a short contracted stipe, 60-120 x 8-9; paraphyses filiform, obscurely septate 
and a trifle longer than the asci; spores l-seriate ellipsoid to subglobose, always rounded 
at the ends, often slightly flattened, 5-6 x 6.5-9#; germ-pore extending along one side 
nearly the length of the spore ; hyaline envelope plainly visible only after the spores have 
been removed from the ascus. 
