Parr 1, 1910] FIMETARIACEAE 75 
brown mycelium, about 300 500 #, thin, membranaceous, olivaceous below and brown 
above, pyriform, with papilliform, black, curved beak which is uniformly and sparingly 
covered with short, straight, sparingly septate hairs; asci 8-spored, clavate, contracted and 
rounded above and tapering below into a long, slender stipe, evanescent, 26-32 « 160- 
185; paraphyses filiform, septate, slightly constricted below, longer than the asci; spores 
2-seriate, ovoid to broadly ellipsoid, ranging from hyaline when young through olivaceous to 
dark-brown and opaque, 11-16 21-27 «; primary appendage one-half to once the length 
of the spore, cylindric, straight, both this and the apex of the spore tipped with long, lash- 
like, gelatinous appendages, the upper one being excentrically attached. 
On cow dung. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Newfield, New Jersey. 
DISTRIBUTION : New Jersey. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mem. Torrey Club 11: p/. 5, f. 1-3. 
14. Pleurage arachnoidea (Niessl) D. Griff. Mem. Torrey 
Club 11: 73. 1901. 
Podospora arachnoidea Niessl ; Krieger, Fungi Sax. 377. 1888. 
Sordaria arachnoidea Sacc. & Syd. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 14: 492. 1899. 
Perithecia scattered, partially sunken or superficial and imbedded in a dense growth of 
mycelium, about 375 X 525 “, membranaceous to slightly coriaceous, dark-brown to black 
and opaque, densely covered with long, septate, brown hairs on all exposed portions, pyri- 
form with a bare, black, papilliform curved beak ; asci 8-spored, cylindric, rounded above 
and tapering below into a long, slender stipe, 18-21 & 180-2504; apex of ascus containing 
a large, shining, highly refractory granule which becomes visible before the spores; para- 
physes filiform, septate, slightly constricted, longer than the asci; spores 1-seriate, ir- 
regular and variable in outline, generally ellipsoid to ovoid, 6-11 X 17-21, ranging from 
hyaline when young through olivaceous to dark-brown and opaque; primary appendage very 
long, curved and overlapping the spore below, this as well as the apex of the spore tipped 
with rather short, gelatinous, lash-like, secondary appendages. 
On cow dung. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Germany. 
DISTRIBUTION : New York to New Jersey; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mem. Torrey Club 11: £/.5, f. 14-20. 
15. Pleurage zygospora (Speg.) Kuntze, Rev. 
Gen. 3°: 505. 1898. 
Sordaria zygospora Speg. Michelia 1: 227. 1878. 
Philocarpa zygospora Sace. Syll. Fung. 1: 251. 1882. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken or nearly superficial, when they are more or less covered 
with a dense or arachnoid fuscous mycelium, about 500 750 », thin, membranaceous, some- 
what transparent, greenish below and black above, pyriform with a more or less elongate, 
cylindric, black, bare and curved beak; asci primarily 8-spored, cylindric to clavate, 
broadly rounded above and contracted below into a long, slender, crooked stipe, very evan- 
escent, 42-54 250-3204; paraphyses ventricose, tapering upward, septate, agglutinate, 
longer than the asci and not mixed with them; spores consisting of an ellipsoid to ovoid 
fertile cell rounded at both ends, but usually more acutely so distally, at each end ofa long, 
spirally arranged, hyaline, fugacious filament which corresponds to the primary appendage 
in the other species; terminal fertile cells 13-19 X 24-40; secondary appendages consist- 
ing of usually 4 rather short, tapering, hyaline, gelatinous, widespread processes attached 
to the distal ends of the fertile cells. 
On dung of horses, cows, goats, sheep, and pigs. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Italy. _ ; 
DISTRIBUTION : New York to South Dakota, Texas, and Louisiana; also in Hurope. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mem. Torrey Club 11: pl. 9, f. I-14. 
16. Pleurage vestita (Zopf) D. Griff. Mem. Torrey 
Club 11: 76. 1901. 
Sordaria vestita Zopf, Zeits. Naturw. 56: 556. 1883. 
Podospora vestita Wint. in Rab. Krypt. Fi. 1?: 176. 1884. 
