Part 1, 1910] FIMETARIACEAE 79 
X 135-200 p ; paraphyses not seen ; spores 12-16 in an ascus, at first vermiform and greenish- 
yellow, finally almond-shaped and opaque, 7-8 14-16; primary appendage cylindric, 
curved, 30-35 X 4; secondary appendage short, slender and attached to apex of the spore. 
On decaying wood, Kalmia, Rhus, Acer, etc. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Newfield, New Jersey. 
DISTRIBUTION : New York and New Jersey. 
26. Pleurage heterochaeta D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 86. 1901. 
Philocopra heterochaeta Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 606. 1905. 
Perithecia superficial or with base slightly sunken, scattered, thin, membranaceous, 
olivaceous in sunken portions but fuscous above, with blackened apex, somewhat transparent, 
about 450 X 700 #; all exposed portions except the black, bare, papilliform beak covered 
with short, blunt, transversely or obliquely septate, agglutinate hairs, which are prominent 
around the base of the beak and decrease to mere scattered papillae downward ; uniformly 
scattered among the latter are long, filiform, flexuous, septate, brown hairs, which gradu- 
ally become transformed below into the rhizoids, which ramify through the substratum; 
asci 16-spored, cylindric-clavate, contracted and narrowly rounded above and contracted 
below into a short, stout stipe, 34-40 x 230-240, very evanescent; paraphyses exceed- 
ingly ventricose, agglutinate and not at all mixed with the asci, often very indistinct and 
appearing more like a tissue lining the perithecium than like filaments; spores 2-seriate, 
ellipsoid, broadly rounded at both ends, 18-20 X 27-34“; primary appendages entirely want- 
ing, the apex of the spore tipped with 2 awl-shaped, parallel or slightly divergent, rather 
firm, gelatinous appendages, which in the ascus are curved so as to appear as one; lower 
end of the spore bearing 2 similar but guuch more delicate, curved and variously twisted 
appendages. 
On cow dung. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Family, Montana. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 11: £2. 17, fi 7-3. 
27. Pleurage dakotensis D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 87. 1901. 
Philocopra dakotensis Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 607. 1905. 
Perithecia scattered, superficial or with the base slightly sunken, pyriform with papilli- 
form to conic, curved beak, about 375-600 4, thin, membranaceous, fuscous, transparent, and 
covered, especially above, by tufts of agglutinate obliquely-septate fuscous hairs; asci 32- 
spored, clavate, broadly rounded above and contracted below into a short, stipitate base, 
rather persistent, 30-40 175-220; paraphyses slightly ventricose, septate, longer than 
theasci, but not mixed with them; spores in 2-4 series, ellipsoid to slightly ovoid, rounded 
at the ends, 12-15 K 18-234, ranging from hyaline when young through olivaceous to 
dark-brown and opaque; primary appendage short, cylindric, straight and fugacious ; 
secondary appendages tipping the primary and the apex of the spore, long, lash-like and 
very fugacious. 
On dung of cows and rabbits ; also on dead stems of Salsola Tragus L. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Brookings, South Dakota. . 
DISTRIBUTION : New Jersey to South Dakota, Texas, and Alabama. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Mem. Torrey Club 11: £2. 7, f. 17-19. 
28. Pleurage curvicolla (Wint.) Kuntze, Rev. 
Gen. 3°: 505. 1898. 
Sordaria curvicolla Wint. Hedwigia 10: 161. 1871. 
Philocopra curvicolla Sacc, Syll. Fung. 1: 250. 1882. 
Podospora curvicolla Wint. in Rab. Krypt. Fl. 12: 176. 1884. 
Perithecia sunken, scattered, but often erumpent and half superficial at maturity, 350—- 
450 X 550-6004, thin, membranaceous, transparent, greenish to fuscous, pyriform with 
black, projecting, rather stout, papilliform beak, which is ornamented, mostly below the 
middle, with bunches of long, nearly straight, acuminate, very sparingly septate, greenish 
to brown hairs; asci 128-256 (?)-spored, widely clavate to sac-like, broadly rounded above 
’ and contracted below into a short stipe, 70-120 X 225-280; paraphyses tubular to filiform, 
