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pendage one-half to two-thirds the length of the spore, cylindric, Straight or curved; this 
as well as the apex of the spore tipped with long, lash-like, gelatinous, secondary appen- 
dages, varying in length with the stage of development, the upper being excentrically 
placed and both being made up of 2 closely united filaments which are plainly distinguish- 
able proximally but which appear gradually to fuse together distally. 
On dung of horses, cows, goats, sheep, pigs, and rabbits. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Europe. 
DISTRIBUTION : New York to Montana, Arizona, and Alabama; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mem. Torrey Club 11: pl. 7, f. 1-6. 
8. Pleurage minor (Ellis & Ev.) D. Griff. Mem. Torrey 
Club 11: 67. 1901. 
Podospora minor Ellis & Ev. Am. Nat. 31: 341, 1897. 
Sordaria minor Sacc. & Syd. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 14: 493. 1899. 
Perithecia scattered or loosely aggregate, erumpent with simply the base sunken at 
maturity, pyriform to conic and clothed on all exposed portions except the black, papilli- 
form to conic beak with short, sparingly septate, crooked, brown hairs, about 400  500- 
600 thick, coriaceous, black and opaque; asci 3-8-spored, cylindric, rounded above and 
contracted below into a short, blunt, stipe-like base, evanescent, 20-24 170-190 u 3 para- 
physes filiform above but slightly ventricose below, longer than the asci and not much mixed 
with them; spores obliquely 1-seriate, ellipsoid to ovoid and irregular in outline, 18-24 
X 3045; primary appendage short, cyliadric or clavate, straight or curved, hyaline to 
brown ; secondary appendages long, lash-like and attached to the extremity of the primary 
and to the apex of the spore, the upper one being the larger and often tinted with brown. 
On old cornstalks. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Rooks County, Kansas. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 11; 1. 7, f. 14-16. 
9. Pleurage amphicornis (Ellis) Kuntze, Rev. 
Gen. 3°: 505. 1898. 
Sphaeria amphicornis Ellis, Bull. Torrey Club 6: 109. 1876. 
Sphaeria eximia Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 28: 78. 1876. 
Podospora amphicornis Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. 130. 1892. 
Sordaria amphicornis Sacc. Syll. Fung: 1: 235. 1882. 
Perithecia scattered, superficial or with base slightly sunken, 350-400 X 450-600 #, 
membranaceous to coriaceous, black and covered sparingly with short, straight, septate, 
brown hairs, ovoid to ovoid-conic with short, flat, papilliform, black ostiolum ; asci 8-spored, 
clavate, contracted and rounded above, and tapering below into a short, stipe-like base, 32~35 
X 185-225 » ; characteristics of the paraphyses uncertain ; spores 2-seriate, ellipsoid, some- 
what sharply rounded at the ends, 14-18 X 24-324, dark-brown and opaque when mature; 
primary appendage cylindric, straight, about one-third to two-thirds as long as spore; sec- 
ondary appendages long, lash-like, gelatinous, attached to apex of spore and tip of primary 
appendage, composed of 2 closely united filaments which become indistinguishable 
distally. 
On rabbit dung. 
‘TYPE LOCALITY : Newfield, New Jersey. 
DISTRIBUTION: Ontario to New Jersey. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 28: fl. 2, f. 14-17; Mem. Torrey Club 11: £/. 7, 
ILD 
10. Pleurage superior D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 68. 1901. 
Sordaria superior Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 603. 1905. 
Perithecia superficial, scattered, thin, membranaceous, brown and somewhat trans- 
parent to black and opaque in age, pyriform with short, papilliform, curved or erect beak, 
about 450 & 6004 ; the whole perithecium covered with short, blunt, septate, brown, hyaline- 
tipped, bristle-like hairs which are uniformly distributed over the entire surface with the 
exception of a small area around the ostiolum; asci 8-spored, clavate, contracted and 
rounded above and tapering below into a long, rather slender, crooked stipe, 250-275 x 
