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14. Sporormia fimetaria De-Not. Mem. Accad. Torino 
II. 10: 342. 1849. 
Sphaeria fimetaria Rab.: Klotzsch, Herb. Viv. Myc. 1737. 1853. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken beneath the thin upper crust of the substratum through 
which the upper wall of the perithecium opens on the surface, 90-120 4 in diameter, thin, 
membranaceous, brown, without any visible beak, the ostiolum being simply an opening in 
the wall of the perithecium: asci 8-spored, cylindric, broadly rounded above and con- 
tracted below into a rather broad, stout, stipitate base, rather persistent, 12-16 < 70-80 Bs 
paraphyses filiform, septate, sparingly branched, longer than the asci and mixed with 
them ; spores parallel, firmly united into a cylindric, truncate mass in the center of the 
ascus, 3.5-4 X 50-54, 15-septate with the end cells nearly twice the length of the others, 
the whole mass of spores surrounded by a very narrow hyaline envelope which does not 
adhere to the individual spores when isolated, 
On dung of cows and sheep. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. 
DISTRIBUTION : Vermont to South Dakota, Texas, and Mississippi ; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 11: £1. 17, S46. 
15. Sporormia herculea Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. 135. 1892. 
Perithecia sunken, scattered, with a projecting, black, cylindric beak which terminates 
in an enlarged, black, warty, irregularly expanded or even forked extremity, about 440- 
550 in diameter, globose, membranaceous to coriaceous, sometimes inclined to be brittle, 
black and opaque ; asci 8-spored, clavate or slightly fusiform, broadly rounded above and 
contracted below into a short, blunt stipe, quite persistent, 45-60 X 225-300 #; paraphyses 
filiform, abundant, septate, slightly constricted below, longer than the asci and mixed with 
them; spores obliquely 2-3-seriate, 10-15-septate, cylindric to very slightly fusiform, 
rounded or subacute at the ends, deeply constricted and easily separable into individual 
cells, 18-21 135-150, the second to the fifth cell from above in the upper spore of 
ascus being much larger than any of the others; ordinary cells 13-16 X 16-21; large 
cell about 18 & 244, ranging from hyaline and decidedly fusiform when young through 
yellow to dark-brown, opaque and cylindric. 
On dung of cows and horses. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Newfield, New Jersey. 
DISTRIBUTION: Rhode Island to Texas. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 11: p/. 17, f. 1-3. 
5. SPORORMIELLA Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. 136. 1892. 
Perithecia imbedded in a stroma; asci with an internal membrane which stretches 
at maturity ; spores 3-septate and surrounded by a hyaline, gelatinous envelope ; indistin- 
guishable from Sforormia except for the presence of a stroma. 
Type species, Sforormiella nigropurpurea Ellis & Ev. 
1. Sporormiella nigropurpurea Ellis & Ev. N. Am. 
Pyrenom. 136. 1892. 
Perithecia scattered or aggregate in large clusters and imbedded in a dark-gray stroma 
which is purplish within, sunken or slightly elevated when confluent, subglobose or ovoid, 
thick-walled with papilliform, black, shining and perforate beak about 0.35 mm. in diameter ; 
asci 8-spored, cylindric-clavate, broadly rounded above and gradually contracted below into a 
short, crooked stipe, 10-12 x 90-125 2; paraphyses filiform, abundant, faintly guttulate, 
faintly septate, much longer than the asci and mixed with them; spores 3-septate, cylindric, 
deeply constricted, rounded at the ends, 20-26 4-6, the terminal cells subovoid, the 
middle ones subglobose ; hyaline envelope narrow and indistinct. 
On cow dung. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Newfield, New Jersey. . 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mem. Torrey Club 11: pl. 15, f. 1-3. 
EXCLUDED GENUS 
Hypocopra Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 397. 1849. Coprolepa Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 239, 
