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ingly and indistinctly septate, longer than the asci and mixed with them ; spores ellipsoid, 
acutely rounded at both of the excentric ends, obliquely 1-septate with a broad, very shallow 
constriction, 21-24 x 45-50», ranging from hyaline when young through yellow to dark- 
brown and opaque; hyaline covering extending greatly in water. 
On cow dung. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Austin, Texas. 
DISTRIBUTION : Texas to Mississippi. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 11: pL DL, f. 7-9. 
3. Delitschia leporina D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 102. 1901. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, with a projecting, black, broad, truncate, roughened or 
warty beak which is uniformly covered with long, flexuous, delicate, brown, septate hairs, 
about 500 X 600-750, pyriform to short-cylindric or conic, truncate, thin, membranaceous, 
dark-brown to black and opaque; asci 8-spored, clavate, broadly rounded above and con- 
tracted below into a short, blunt stipe, 30-34 d< 240-295 u, persistent ; paraphyses filiform, 
septate, abundant, mixed with and longer than the asci; spores 2-seriate, rather narrowly 
ellipsoid, acutely rounded at the ends, obliquely 1-septate with a deep, rather broad con- 
striction, 16-20 X 40-654, ranging from hyaline when young through yellow to dark-brown 
and opaque; hyaline envelope very distinct and evidently 1-septate, corresponding to the 
septum of the spore, when swollen by the action of water. 
On rabbit dung. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Fort Lee, New Jersey. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type gra 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 11: f/. 23, 7. 14-16. 
4. Delitschia Marchalii Berl. & Vogl. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 
Addit. 127. 1886. 
Deliischia sp. Marchal, Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 232: 16. 1884. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, subglobose, 275-350 « in diameter, thin, membranaceous, 
black and opaque, with a black papilliform beak ; asci 8-spored, cylindric, broadly rounded 
above and slightly contracted below into a short, stout stipe, 9-12 < 65-80; paraphyses 
filiform, sparingly branched, indistinctly septate, numerous, mixed with the asci and about 
equal to them in length; spores obliquely 1-seriate, ellipsoid to ovoid, 1-septate, but little 
if at all constricted, 5-6  10-1lu, ranging from hyaline when young throngh yellow to 
dark-brown and opaque, surrounded by a very narrow, hyaline, gelatinous envelope. 
On rabbit dung. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Belgium. 
DISTRIBUTION: New Jersey ; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mem, Torrey Club 11: pl. 23, f. 1-3. 
5. Delitschia furfuracea Niessl ; Rehm, Hedwigia 23: 75. 1884. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, with projecting, black, bare, papilliform or short-cylindric 
beak, 450 < 650 in diameter, subglobose to pyriform, membranaceous to slightly coria- 
ceous, dark-brown to black, and at first having a distinctively greenish tint on the sub- 
stratum around the base of the beak; asci 8-spored, clavate to fusiform, usually widest 
below the middle, broadly rounded above and rather abruptly contracted below into a short, 
blunt stipe, 40-48 < 250-300; paraphyses filiform, coarsely guttulate, septate, longer 
than the asci and mixed with them; spores somewhat 2-seriate below, ovoid to ellipsoid, 
broadly or acutely rounded at the ends, 1-septate with a broad shallow constriction, 18-24 
X 42-54 #, ranging from hyaline when young through yellow to dark-brown and opaque; 
gelatinous envelope prominent and enlarging greatly in water. 
On dung of rabbits, horses, and burros. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. 
DISTRIBUTION: Montana to Colorado and Kansas; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 11: 2. 14, f. 7-9. 
6. Delitschia Winteri Phill. & Plow. Grevillea2: 188. 1874. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, pyriform to globose, with long, broad-cylindric, curved 
or twisted projecting beak which may be sparingly covered with long, straight, brown 
