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4. SPORORMIA De-Not. Mem. Accad. Torino II. 10: 342. 1849. 
Perithecia globose or ovoid, sunken or less frequently superficial, with papilliform to 
cylindric beak, membranaceous to coriaceous and sometimes slightly brittle ; asci cylindric 
to clavate with an internal membrane which is usually perforate at the apex ; spores 
cylindric, 3-many-septate, usually dark-brown and opaque and surrounded by a hyaline 
gelatinous envelope. 
Type species, Sporormia fimetaria De-Not. 
Spores 3-septate. 
Beak always small, papilliform or wanting. 
Paraphyses few or entirely wanting. 
Spores dark-brown or black at maturity. 
Spores yellow at’maturity. 
Paraphyses abundant. 
Spores narrowly cylindric. 
Asci clavate ; spores 9-11 x 48-60 #. 
Asci cylindric ; spores 5~6 x 32-35 4. 
Spores ovoid to broadly cylindric. 
Beak prominent, papilliform to short-cylindric. 
Spores l-seriate, small. — 
Spores 2-seriate, large. 
Beak long-cylindric or enlarged and tubercular. 
Beak tubercular. 
. S. minima. 
. 8. chrysospora. 
NH 
. S. intermedia, 
. S. leporina. 
S. lata. 
. S. pulchella, 
. S. megalospora, 
NO Haw 
Plant small; spores 5.5-7 & 32-33n. 8. S. tuberculaia. 
Plant large ; spores 10-12 72-77 m. 9. S. kansensis. 
Beak cylindric. 
Beak hairy. 10, S. chaetomioides. 
Beak smooth, long and narrow. 11. S. dakotensis. 
Spores mre than 3-septate. 
Spores 6-septate. 12, S. americana. 
Spores 7-septate. 13. S. corynespora, 
Spores 15-septate, united into a cylindric mass. 14. S. jimetaria. 
Spores 10-15-septate with a very large cell in upper spore of ascus. 15. S. herculea., 
1. Sporormia minima Auersw. Hedwigia 7: 66. 1868. 
Sphaeria multifera Berk. & Rav.; Berk. Grevillea 4: 143. 1876. 
Philocopra multifera Sace. Syll. Fung. 1: 294. 1882. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, with the small papilliform beak projecting to the surface, 
later more or less erumpent and the beak disappearing almost entirely, leaving the perithe- 
cium simply perforate, 90-1204 in diameter, globose, thin, membranaceous, dark-brown 
and opaque ; asci 8-spored, cylindric-clavate, broadly rounded above and contracted below 
into a short or almost sessile base, rather persistent, 13-17 < 65-95; paraphyses very 
scant or often entirely absent, filiform, septate, about equal to the asci; spores in 2 or 3 
series, 3-septate, straight or curved, cylindric, rounded at the ends, deeply constricted and 
easily separable, 5.5-6 >< 29-34, ranging from hyaline when young through yellow to 
dark-brown and opaque; hyaline envelope becoming very prominent in water and evidently 
septate, corresponding with the septation of the spore. 
On the dung of goats, horses, cows, sheep, rabbits, dogs, prairie-dogs, and burros. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Europe. 
DISTRIBUTION: Vermont to Oregon, Arizona, and Louisiana ; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: A. Berl. Ic. Fung. 1: pl. 28, 7.4; Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. fi. 18, f/f. 
6-9 ; Mem. Torrey Club 11: pf. 15, f. 16-18. 
2. Sporormia chrysospora D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 108. 1901. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, or aggregate in small clusters and erumpent, becoming 
more or less free at maturity, globose with a short, black, bare, papilliform beak (or the 
beak may be entirely absent, when the perithecium is simply perforate), 225-300 « in diam- 
eter, thin, membranaceous or often inclined to be brittle, black and opaque; asci 8-spored, 
cylindric-clavate, broadly rounded above and contracted below into a short, blunt stipe, 
persistent, 10-12 < 65-95 #; paraphyses filiform, septate, scant, mixed with the asci and 
about equal to them in length; spores 2-seriate, narrowly ellipsoid, slightly wider above 
than below, rounded at the ends, 5-7 X 21-24 , 3-septate with shallow constrictions, not 
easily separable, light-yellow when mature; hyaline envelope narrow and often indistinct. 
On rabbit dung. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Decorah, Iowa. : 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mem, Torrey Club 11: A/. 5, f. #6. 
