74 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [Vorums 3 
30-40 4, evanescent; paraphyses somewhat veutricose, tapering upward and becoming 
filiform above, much longer than the asci and not mixed with them ; Spores Z-seriate, 4and 
4 or 2 and 6, ellipsoid, 27-32 X 53-60, ranging from hyaline when young through oliva- 
ceous to dark-brown and opaque; primary appendage clavate and slightly ‘shorter than the 
spore; secondary appendages very long and attached to the distal end of the primary and 
excentrically to the apex of the spore, the upper one larger than the lower, each made 
up of 2 distinct parts closely united, and each of these in turn showing longitudinal stria- 
tions which indicate still finer subdivisions. 
On cow dung. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Summit, Montana. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 11: ‘fi. 19, f. 14-16. 
11. Pleurage fimiseda (Ces. & De-Not.) D. Griff. Mem. Torrey 
Club 11: 69. 1901. 
Podospora fimicola Ces.; Klotzsch, Herb. Viv. Myc. ed. 2. 259. 1856.— Bot. Zeit. 14: 429. 1856. 
Not (?) Schizothectum fimicola Corda, 1838. 
Sordaria fimiseda Ces. & De-Not. Comm. Critt. Ital. 1: 226. 1863. 
Cercophora fimiseda Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 244. 1869. 
Podospora fimiseda Wint. in Rab. Krypt. Fl. 12: 170. 1884. 
Perithecia pyriform, large, superficial, scattered or aggregate in small clusters and 
erumpent between the undigested fibers of the substratum, about 1 mm. in its greatest 
diameter, densely covered on all the exposed portions by short, straight, septate, brown 
hairs, which have hyaline tips when young and, therefore, give the perithecium a grayish 
appearance, greenish when young, but becoming black and opaque with age; walls of the 
perithecium thick and coriaceous in texture; asci 8-spored, clavate, contracted and rounded 
above, and tapering below into a long stipe, evanescent, 55-65 X 330-375“; paraphyses 
abundant, filiform or slightly ventricose below, tapering upward, much longer than the 
asci; spores 2-seriate, 4 and 4 or 2 and 6, ellipsoid, 27-32 < 53-60 4, ranging from hyaline - 
when young through olivaceous to dark-brown and opaque; primary appendage clavate 
and slightly shorter than the spore; secondary appendages very long and attached to distal 
end of the primary and excentrically to the apex of the spore, the upper one larger than 
the lower, each made up of 2 distinct parts closely united, and each of these in turn 
showing longitudinal striations which indicate still finer subdivisions. 
On dung of horses and cows. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. 
DISTRIBUTION : New York to South Dakota and New Jersey ; also in Europe. 
‘ eit ag ea : Hedwigia 1: pl. 14, f. A; Fuckel, Symb. Myc. p/. 4, f. 1; Mem. Torrey Club 
1: pf. 8, f. 135. 
12. Pleurage erostrata D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 71. 1901. 
Sordaria erostrata Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 604. 1905. 
Perithecia scattered and entirely superficial, 180-225» in diameter, thin, membrana- 
ceous, ranging from hyaline when young through greenish to black and opaque, completely 
covered with long, flexuous, septate, brown hairs, globose, with no beak and apparently 
no ostiolum; asci 8-spored, clavate, rounded above and contracted below into a short, 
stipitate base, very evanescent, 16-21 X 48-542; paraphyses absent; spores 2-seriate, ellip- 
soid to ovoid, acutely rounded above and broadly rounded to truncate below, ranging from 
hyaline when young through olivaceous to dark-brown and opaque, 6.5-8 K 11-13 4; pri- 
mary appendage rather shorter than the spore, cylindric, straight, both this and the apex 
of the spore tipped with short, very evanescent, gelatinous awl-shaped appendages. 
On dung of horses, cows, and rabbits. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Aberdeen, South Dakota. 
DISTRIBUTION : South Dakota to Montana, Arizona, and Texas. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mem. Torrey Club 11: pl. 4, f 11-L. 
13. Pleurage Ellisiana D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 72. 1901. 
Sordaria Ellisiana Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 601. 1905. 
Perithecia scattered, half-sunken or superficial.and imbedded in a dense growth of 
