Part 1, 1910] FIMETARIACEAE 69 
On dung of horses, cows, and goats. 
TYPE LocaLity: South Carolina. 
DISTRIBUTION: Rhode Island to Montana, Colorado, and Alabama. 
ILLUSTRATIONS : Grevillea 6: 1. 94, 7.3 ; Mem. Torrey Club 11: £1. 3, f. 9-15. 
Exsiccatr: Rav. Fungi Car. 4: 61. oe . ee 
11. Fimetaria philocoproides (D. Griff.) Griffiths & Seaver. 
Sordaria philocoproides D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 54. 1901. 
Philocopra Griffithsti Sace. Syl. Fung. 17: 607. 1905. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, but becoming more or less superficial with age, subglobose, 
with small papilliform or indistinct beak, 300-400 in diameter, membranaceous, black and 
opaque, covered on all exposed portions with short, stiff, dark-brown to black, pointed, 
continuous hairs; asci 32-spored, cylindric to clavate, broadly rounded and simply perforate 
above, and contracted below into a short, blunt stipe, 13-20 X 90-110; paraphyses filiform, 
septate, a little longer than the asci; spores in 2-4 series, slightly flattened, broadly elliptic 
to subcircular in one view and narrowly elliptic in the other, broadly rounded at the ends, 
5.5-8 K 84; hyaline envelope rather indistinct and very narrow. 
On rabbit dung. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Fort Lee, New Jersey. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mem. Torrey Club 11: p/. 4, f. 17-19. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES 
Sordaria hippica (Sacc.) Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. 127. 1892. Hypoxylon equt- 
num Berk. & Rav.; Berk. Grevillea 4: 93. 1876. Aypocopra hippica Sacc. Syll. Fung. 
1: 247. 1882. Perithecia springing from a thin effuse white mycelium; ostiola black, 
papilliform ; spores short-cymbiform, 15“ long. On horse dung ; South Carolina (Ravenel). 
This is a very doubtful species, but as the description is very meager and the original speci- 
men can not be found, no positive statement can be made concerning it. 
Sordaria? hyalina D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 49. 1901. Perithecia small, 
scattered, sunken, subglobose, about 150 » in diameter, thin, membranaceous, brown, smooth, 
with cellular structure plainly visible; beak papilliform or entirely wanting, when the 
ostiolum is simply an opening in the top of the subglobose perithecium ; asci 8-spored, 
cylindric, broadly rounded or truncate, and perforate above, and contracted below into a 
stipe of medium length, very numerous and quite persistent, 5-6 45-55; paraphyses 
absent; spores obliquely 1-seriate, ellipsoid, broadly rounded at the ends, hyaline, 2.5-3 X 
4.5-5u; hyaline envelope very narrow. On dung of horses, cows, and goats, New York 
to South Dakota and Mississippi. 
2. PLEURAGE Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 418. 1849. 
Schizothecium Corda, Ic, Fung. 2: 29. 1838. Not Schizotheca Ehrenb. 1832. 
Podospora Ces.; Klotzsch, Herb. Viv. Myc. ed. 2. 259. 1856. — Bot. Zeit. 14: 429. 1856. 
Malinvernia Rab. ae 1: on Bee 
Cercophora Fuckel, Symb. Myc. ; - 
Gittovopra Speg. Anal, Soc. Ci. Argent. 9: opp. 193, hyponym. 1880; 12: 107. 1881. 
Eusordaria Zopf, Zeits. Naturw. 56: 542. 1883. 
Perithecia scattered or aggregate, superficial or sunken, membranaceous or coriaceous, 
without stroma; asci without an apical perforation, stretching at maturity ; paraphyses 
yentricose or filiform-tubular, usually agglutinate and longer than the asci; spores ellipsoid, 
with or without primary appendages, but always having attached to them at maturity 
2 or more hyaline, gelatinous, secondary appendages of variable length. 
Type species, Schizothecium Jimicola Corda. 
Asci 4-spored. 
Perithecia smooth above the en oteae 1. P. anomala. 
erithecia hairy above the substratum. : ; 
: Primary appendages of spores absent. . ! 2. P. arizonensts, 
Primary appendages of spores reduced to a small triangular apiculus, %& P. /aeniotdes. 
Primary appendages of spores elongate and cylindric. 
* Haire at the perithecium long, dark-brown, sparingly septate and : 
arranged in tufts on the convex side of the curved beak. 4. P. anserina, 
Hairs of the perithecium consisting of tufts of irregular fuscous cells. 5. P. teltraspora, 
Asci 8-spored. 
Primary spore-appendages present, 
