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the short, cylindric or papilliform, black and curved beak, the convex side of which is 
ornamented with several tufts of long, brown hairs; asci 4-spored, cylindric, slightly con- 
tracted and rounded at the apex, and tapering below into a long, slender, crooked stipe, 
38-45 XK 240-325 4; paraphyses variable, usually broadly filiform, tapering upward, much 
longer than the asci, the outer ones decidedly ventricose and somewhat agglutinate ; spores 
vertically 1-seriate, ellipsoid, inequilateral or slightly flattened on one side, broadly 
rounded at the ends, 21-25 X 45-52, ranging from hyaline when young through oliva- 
ceous to dark-brown and opaque; primary appendages entirely absent, but both upper and 
lower ends of the spore tipped with long, lash-like, gelatinous, excentrically attached 
appendages which are marked longitudinally with a furrow showing them to be made 
up of 2 closely united filaments. 
On dung of sheep and cows. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Tucson, Arizona. 
DISTRIBUTION : Arizona and New Mexico. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 11: #1. 6, f. 46. 
3. Pleurage taenioides D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 58. 1901. 
Sordaria taenioides Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 602. 1905. 
Perithecia scattered, half sunken, or occasionally aggregate in small clusters and 
erumpent between the fibers of the substratum, about 0.50.75 mm., slightly olivaceous 
when young, but becoming black, opaque and slightly coriaceous at maturity, covered uni- 
formly on all exposed portions by short, straight, septate, brown, hyaline-tipped, fugacious 
hairs, globose to pyriform with a long, cylindric, curved or twisted beak; asci 4-spored, 
cylindric, broadly rounded above and contracted below into a long, slender, crooked stipe, 
persistent, 37-45 < 290-360; paraphyses filiform to tubular or even slightly ventricose 
below, tapering upward, septate, longer than the asci; spores 1-seriate, ellipsoid to ovoid, 
broadly rounded at the ends, ranging in color from hyaline when young through olivaceous 
to dark-brown and opaque, 29-32 ‘56-62; primary appendage reduced to a minute, 
hyaline or often slightly colored apiculus at lower end of the spore, the lower secondary 
appendage gelatinous, very long, attached apically to the spore and inclosing the minute 
apiculus, easily resolved into 2 closely united portions which appear to lose their indi- 
viduality distally, more or less of the length being thrown into convolutions resembling 
segments of the tapeworm; upper appendage slightly smaller than the lower and eccentric- 
ally attached. 
On dung of horses, cows, rabbits, burros, dogs, and sheep. 
TYPE LOCALITY: New York City. 
DISTRIBUTION : Rhode Island to South Dakota, Arizona, and Alabama. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 11: £2. 6, f. 1-3. 
4. Pleurage anserina (Ces.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 3°: 504. 1898. 
Sphaeria anserina Ces.; Rab. Hedwigia 1: 116, as synonym. 1857. 
Mealinvernia anserina Rab. Hedwigial: 116. 1857. 
Sordaria anserina Wint. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle 13: 99. 1873. 
Podospora anserina Wint. in Rab. Krypt. Fl. 2: 173. 1884. 
Sordaria penicillata Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 4: 78. 1888. 
Podospora penicillata Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. 131. 1892. 
Perithecia usually half sunken but often entirely superficial, scattered uniformly, or aggre- 
gate in clusters of 2-6, 300-350 X 400-500, pyriform, black above and greenish below, thin 
and membranaceous but not transparent; beak papilliform or slightly cylindric, usually 
curved and bearing several tufts of long, dark-brown, very sparingly septate hairs on the 
convex surface ; asci 4-spored, cylindric, slightly contracted and rounded above, and con- 
tracted below into a long, slender, crooked stipe, quite persistent, 17-22 X 200-400 #; 
paraphyses filiform or slightly ventricose below, decreasing in diameter upward, 1.5-2 times 
the length of the ascus; spores 1-seriate, ellipsoid, ranging from hyaline when young 
through olivaceous to dark-brown and opaque, 18-20 34424, terminated below by a 
short hyaline primary appendage 1-1.5 times the length of spore, this as well as the apex of 
the spore terminated by a long, lash-like, gelatinous appendage of variable length, which 
by proper illumination can be resolved into 2 closely united strands which gradually 
merge into one another distally. 
