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ing them in length; spores obliquely 1-seriate, narrowly ellipsoid, acutely rounded at the 
ends, 5-8 X 23-244, 3-septate, deeply constricted but not easily separable, dark-brown 
and opaque, surrounded by a prominent, hyaline envelope. 
On cow dung. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Europe. 
DISTRIBUTION : South Dakota; alsoin Europe. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mem. Torrey Club 11: pl. 15, f. 10-22. 
7. Sporormia megalospora Auersw. Hedwigia 7: 68. 1868. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, but erumpent and more or less exposed at maturity, glo- 
bose with a papilliform or short-cylindric, bare, black and shining beak, 300-400 # in diam- 
eter, slightly coriaceous, black and opaque; asci cylindric, clavate, broadly rounded above 
and contracted below into a comparatively broad, stout base, persistent, 35-45 & 180-250 # ; 
paraphyses filiform, septate, sparingly branched, abundant, longer than the asci and mixed 
with them; spores in 2 or 3 series, cylindric, broadly to acutely rounded at the ends, 3- 
septate, deeply constricted and easily separable, 70-85 X 15-18, ranging from hyaline 
when young through yellow to dark-brown and opaque; hyaline envelope rather narrow 
and swelling but little in water. 
On the dung of cows, horses, and rabbits. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. 
DISTRIBUTION: Rhode Island to Montana, Arizona, and Alabama; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Mem. Torrey Club 11: fl. 16, f. 23, A. Berl, Ic. Fung. 1: pl. 29, f. 5. 
8. Sporormia tuberculata D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 112. 1901. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken and remaining so at maturity, globose to ovoid with a 
long, projecting, funnel-form to irregularly tubercular, enlarged, black beak, 225-275 
X 375-450 #4, thin, membranaceous, black and opaque; asci 8-spored, clavate, broadly 
rounded above and contracted below into a rather long narrow stipe, persistent, 11-13 
100-1302; paraphyses filiform, faintly septate, guttulate, mixed with the asci and about 
equal to them in length; spores 2-seriate, cylindric, rounded at the ends, 3-septate, deeply 
constricted and easily separable, 5.5-7 X 32-334; hyaline envelope rather narrow. 
On dung of goats and horses. 
TvpE LOCALITY: Fort Lee, New Jersey. 
DISTRIBUTION : New Jersey to Arizona. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 11: pl. 15, f. B-D. 
9. Sporormia kansensis D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 113. 1901. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, erumpent, and partly exposed at maturity, globose with 
along, wide, black, bare, cylindric or funnel-form, tuberculate beak, 300-450 600-900 #, 
firmly attached to the substratum by numerous fine rhizoids, rather thick, coriaceous, black 
and opaque; asci cylindric, broadly rounded above and contracted below into a moderately 
stout stipe, persistent, 26-34 > 240-2904; paraphyses filiform, septate, homogeneous, 
abundant, sparingly branched, longer than the asci and mixed with them ; spores in 2 or 3 
series, cylindric, straight or slightly curved, rounded at the ends, very deeply constricted 
and easily separable, 3-septate, 10-12 X 72-77 #, ranging from hyaline when young through 
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yellow to dark-brown and opaque; hyaline envelope prominent and stretching greatly in 
water. 
On rabbit dung. 
T’yPE LOCALITY: Rooks County, Kansas. . 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mem. Torrey Club 11: pi. 16, f. 7-9. 
10. Sporormia chaetomioides D. Griff. Mem. Torrey 
" Club 11: 113. 1901. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, with a long cylindric, straight or curved beak which is 
densely covered with long, flexuous, faintly septate, fuscous to brown hairs as far as the 
black, shining apex, which appears, when viewed from above, as a black perforate speck 
surrounded by the long wavy hairs, 300-400 < 600-700 #, thin, membranaceous, greenish 
