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with a hyaline, homogeneous, highly refractive particle in the apex, 15-22 125-2004; 
paraphyses very evanescent, ventricose, agglutinate, longer than the asci; spores 2-seriate, 
ellipsoid to ovoid, 9-11 18-30, ranging from hyaline when young through olivaceous 
to dark-brown and opaque; primary appendage twice as long as the spore, cylindric, 
curved, this as well as the apex of the spore tipped with a long, lash-like, gelatinous, fuga- 
cious, secondary appendage. 
On dung of horses and cows. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Europe. 
DISTRIBUTION: New York to South Dakota and Alabama ; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 11: £1. 5, f. 10-23. 
20. Pleurage longicaudata D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 81. 1901. 
Sordaria longicaudata Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 601. 1905. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, but becoming half exposed at maturity, 450-600 < 600- 
900 #, thin, membranaceous, greenish below when young, but finally becoming black and 
opaque, globose to pyriform with short, narrow-cylindric, black, bare beak; asci clavate, 
straight or curved, contracted and narrowly rounded above and tapering below into a short, 
broad stipe, very evanescent, 32-42 < 280-3004; paraphyses very wide, tubular-ventri- 
cose, irregular, tapering upward, slightly longer than the asci; spores ellipsoid, rounded 
at the ends, but usually more acutely so above, 23-25 X 45-534, ranging from hyaline 
when young through olivaceous to dark-brown and opaque; primary appendages pestle- 
shaped, about two-thirds the length of the spore; secondary appendages covering the entire 
spore and primary appendages as well, being shortest around the equator, increasing in 
length towards the ends where they become united into + very long, slender, fugacious, 
hyaline, gelatinous, striate-frayed filament. 
On cow dung. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Rooks County, Kansas. 
DISTRIBUTION : Kansas to Texas and Alabama. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mem. Torrey Club 11: ~/. 8, f. 9-Z1. 
21. Pleurage decipiens (Wint.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 3°: 505. 1898. 
Sordaria decipiens Wint.; Fuckel, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Nat, 27-28: 44. 1873. 
Eusordaria decipiens Zopf, Zeits. Naturw. 56: 547. 1883. 
Podospora decipiens Wint. in Rab. Krypt. Fl. 1?: 173. 1884. 
Perithecia pyriform, sunken in the substratum, scattered, 300-450 575-750 2; walls 
thin, membranaceous, black above and greenish below, often so transparent that the asci 
and spores can be indistinctly seen by transmitted light; beak moderately long, straight or 
curved and often roughened above by a few short papillae ; rhizoids abundant and extending 
up to the projecting, usually curved, black beak; asci 8-spored, clavate, rounded above and 
contracted below into a pedicel of medium length, evanescent, 40-55 X 180-2404; para- 
physes long, ventricose, septate, agglutinate, abundant, but not much mixed with the asci ; 
spores 2-seriate, ellipsoid to ovoid, slightly wider below the middie, 20-24 38-544, 
ranging from hyaline when young through olivaceous to dark-brown and opaque ; germ- 
pore large, apical and excentric; lower end of spore terminated by a long cylindric Primary 
appendage, 1-1.5 times the length of the spore, the base of this appendage being sur- 
rounded by short, gelatinous, secondary appendages, while the apex of the sporeis crowned 
by a lyre-shaped tuft of similar consistency. 
On dung of cows, horses, sheep, prairie-dogs, rabbits, and dogs. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. ; : 
DISTRIBUTION: Vermont to Montana, Arizona, and Alabama; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Nat. 27-28: pl. 1, f. 33; Rab. Krypt. Fl. 1?: 173. f. 1-3; 
Mem. Torrey Club 11: pl. 9, f. 10-13. 
22. Pleurage kansensis D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 83. 1901. 
Sordaria kansensis Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 602. 1905. 
Perithecia scattered or aggregate, sunken or nearly superficial, exposed portion covered 
with long, flexuous, olivaceous-brown, septate hairs, 375-450 600-800 #, thin, membrana- 
ceous, greenish below when young, but becoming completely black and bare at maturity ; 
beak papilliform to cylindric, black, bare, and usually curved; asci 8-spored, cylindric, 
