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18-20 x 8-12 //, without any appendages hut. surrounded by a gelati- 

 nous zone, ends snbacntc. 



On horse duii" 1 . Iowa and Xcw Jersey, and on rabbit's dung, Tan- 

 ada (Dearness), on decaying potato. Lyndonville, X. V. ( Fail-man). 



Winter in Die Pilze makes the spore-hearing part of the asci 

 120-140x17-11). The form on potato has asci (p. sp.) 120-134x12- 

 1") //, hut in the fimicolous specimens, the asei are shorter. The hreadth 

 of the sporidia as given in Jotirn. Mycol. is too small. 



S. bombardioides, (Awd.) in literis. 



Hypocopra bombardioides, Sacc. S\\\. 847. 

 Exsicc. Rab. F. E. 1527. Rehin. Asc. 233. 



IVrithecia superficial, scattered or collected in small, crowded 

 clusters or heaps, very large (f to 1J mm. high), ovate-oblong or ven- 

 tricose-pyriform, mostly somewhat contracted below, broadly rounded 



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above and subumbilicate, with a small papilla, of a tolerably firm, waxy- 

 carnose texture, chestnut-brown. Asci clavate-cylindrical, 140-1 70 x 

 1G-18 IJL (p. s]>.) : paraphyses slender, filiform, jointed. Sporidia 8, ob- 

 liquely, uniseriate, or lying irregularly, elliptical, generally suhiiiequi- 

 lateral. dark brown, with a gelatinous envelope, 22-26 x 12-14//.. 

 ( )n liorse dung, Mt. Shasta, California (Harkness). 



S. sphaerospora, E. & E. (in Herb.) 



Perithecia densely gregarious, ovate-globose, 250-300 //.covered, 

 but raising the surface of the matrix into little hemispherical promi- 

 nences, from the apices of which project the tubercular-papilliform. 

 obtuse, rough, black, bare ostiola. Asci cylindrical, subsessile, 150- 

 160x18-20 //, with very obscure paraphyses. Sporidia uniseriate, 

 obovate-globose, hyaline at first with a broad, gelatinous margin, finally 

 opake and almost black. 20-22x18-20 //. 



On dung of dogs, Xewfield. N. J. 



Outwardly resembles Podospora coprophila, (Fr.), l)ut sporidia 

 not appendiculate and more nearly globose. 



PODOSPORA, Cesati. 



Rabh. Herb. Mj'col. No. 259 and in Hedwigia I, p. 103. 



Without stroma. Perithecia at first more or less sunk in the 

 matrix, becoming finally more or less free, membranaceous, soft, black 

 or dark brown. Sporidia 1 -celled, black or brown, with one or more 

 appendages, mostly \vithont any gelatinous envelope. 



