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below when young, but finally black and opaque; asci 8-spored, cylindric-clavate, broadly 
rounded above and contracted below into a long slender stipe about half the length of the 
spore-bearing portion, rather persistent, 13-18 130-180 #3 paraphyses abundant, filiform, 
septate, branching, much longer than the asci and mixed with them ; spores in 2-3 series, 
cylindric, broadly to acutely rounded at the ends, 5-6 26-40 #, 3-septate, deeply con- 
stricted and easily separable, brown and opaque when mature; hyaline envelope rather 
narrow. 
On cow dung. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Biloxi, Mississippi. 
DISTRIBUTION: Mississippi to Arizona. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mem. Torrey Club11: p1. 16, f. 7-9. 
11. Sporormia dakotensis D. Griff. Mem. Torrey 
Club 11: 114. 1901. 
Perithecia scattered or aggregate in small clusters, sunken, globose with a long, project- 
ing, narrow-cylindric, curved, straight, or variously contorted, bare, black beak, 350-450 
X 700-800, thin, membranaceous, finally becoming black and opaque; asci 8-spored, 
clavate, rounded above and contracted below into a long, slender stipe, 8-11 < 90-1104; 
paraphyses filiform, abundant, septate, longer than the asci and mixed with them; spores 
in 2-3 series, cylindric, straight or curved, rounded at the ends, 3-4 X 22-244, 4-septate, 
deeply constricted and easily separable; hyaline envelope narrow and often indistinct. 
On dung of horses and cows. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Brookings, South Dakota. 
DISTRIBUTION : Montana to Mississippi. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 11: pl. 15, f. 7-9. 
12, Sporormia americana D. Griff. Mem. Torrey 
Club 11: 114. 1901. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, with short, black, shining, papilliform beak projecting 
from the surface of the substratum, 175-2254 in diameter, globose to ovoid, thin, mem- 
branaceous to coriaceous, black and shining when removed from the substratum to which it 
is firmly attached ; asci 8-spored, ‘cylindric-clavate, broadly rounded above and contracted 
below into a short, stipitate base, 27-32 > 160-2104; paraphyses abundant, filiform, 
slightly wider below than above, guttulate, septate, slightly longer than the asciand mixed 
with them; spores in 2-3 series, slightly fusiform and widest above the middle, 6-septate, 
with the third cell from the upper end larger than the others, the 5 middle cells broader 
than long, the end cells slightly ovoid and longer than broad, 10-13 54-62; hyaline 
envelope prominent. 
On rabbit dung. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Gunnison, Colorado. 
DISTRIBUTION : Colorado to California. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 11: pi. 17, f. 11-13. 
13. Sporormia corynespora Niessl, Oesterr. Bot. 
Zeits. 28: 45, 166. 1878. 
Perithecia sunken and scattered or aggregate in small, loose groups and erumpent, be- 
coming free with age, 190-275 # in diameter, subglobose to ovoid with a short, blunt, black 
and shining, papilliform beak, thin, coriaceous, black and opaque; asci 8-spored, clavate, 
broadly rounded above and contracted below into a short, rather narrow stipe, quite per- 
sistent, 18-24 < 160-1754; paraphyses filiform, septate, a little larger below, slightly 
longer than the asci and mixed with them; spores in 2-3 series, 7-septate, slightly clavate 
with the third cell from the top abruptly larger than the others, end cells conic and broadly 
or acutely rounded, the remainder subglobose, 9-10.5 > 50-56 4, covered with a narrow 
hyaline envelope. 
On rabbit dung. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. ee 
DISTRIBUTION: Kansas; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: A. Berl. Ic. Fung. 1: p/.31, 7.3; Mem. Torrey Club 11: 47, 17, ,. 8-10. 
