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tricose. Sporidia 8, uniseriate, elliptical or subglobose, dark brown, 

 with a gelatinous envelope, 15-21 x 10-15 /u. 



On decaying human ordure, in damp woods, Newfield, N. J. 



S. hippica, Sace. Syll. 900. 



Hypoxylon equinum, B. & Rav. Grev. IV, p. 93. 



' Perithecia springing from a thin, effused, white mycelium. Osti- 

 ola black, papilliform. Sporidia short-cymbiform, 15 p long. 7 ' 

 On horse dung, So. Carolina (Ravenel). 



S. leucoplaca, (Berk. & Rav.) 



Sph&ria leueoplaca, B. & Rav. Grev. IV, p. 143. 

 Syn? S. minima, Sacc. & Speg. Mich. I, 373, F. Ital. tab. 617. 

 Hypocopra leueoplaca, Sacc. Syll. 887. 

 Exsicc. Rav. Fungi Car. Exsicc. IV, 61. 



Minute, black, seated on a broad, white-floccose spot: asci 

 linear; sporidia uniseriate, elliptical." 



On cow dung. So. Carolina, (Ravenel). 



The specimen in Rav. Car. affords the following characters.- 

 Perithecia scattered, erumpent, membranaceous, minute (90-120 a), at 

 first clothed with short, spreading, black hairs, which soon disappear. 

 ( )stiolum obtusely conical. Asci cylindrical, rounded at the apex, 

 p. sp. 40-45x7 //; paraphyses not seen. Sporidia uniseriate, short- 

 elliptical, becoming opake, 8-10 x 5-6 p.. 



In Ravenel's specimen the manure is not much decayed, of a light 

 color and thickly sprinkled with the minute perithecia, which much 

 resemble those of Sporormia minima. Sordaria minima, S. cV S.. 

 differs from this only in being glabrous, but it may have been, like 

 this, hairy at first. 



S. fimicola, (Rob.) 



Sphczria fimicola, Rob. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 3. XI, p. 353. 

 Sordaria fimicola , Ces & De Not. Schema, p. 52. 



Hypocopra fimeti and stercoraria, Fckl. Symb. I, p. 240 &24i. (sec. Winter.) 

 Hypocopra fimicola, Sacc. Syll. 869. 



Sordaria lowana, Ell. & Holw. Journ. Mycol. IV, p. 65. 

 Sordaria fimicola. Winter Pilze p. 166. 



Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 903, 1001, 1802. Kze. F. Sel. 101. Rehm. Asc. 137, 300. Sacc. M. T. 

 uSi. Sydow. M. March. 539. Rab. F.F. 3254. Krieg. F. Sax. 275. Desm. Plantes 

 Crypt, de Fr. 2061. 



Perithecia mostly densely ^gregarious, ovate, J mni. diam. the base 

 sunk in the matrix (without any stroma), the upper half or three-fourths 

 projecting, black, tuberculose-roughened, of coarse cellular structure 

 and membranaceous. Asci cylindrical, 107-114x12-15 /j. (p. sp.) ; 

 paraphyses ventricose. Sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, becoming opake. 



