134 



H. finieti, (Pers.) 



Sphezria fimcti, Pers. Sj'n. p. 64. 

 ffypocopra fimeti ,~Pr. 1. c. 



Sonhiiiafime/i, Winter. Deutsch. Sord. p. 14. 

 L'oprolepafimeti, Sacc. Syll. 903. 



Perithecia crowded or confluent, globose or ovate, 300-350 // 

 broad, ending above in n thick, conical, mostly oblique neck, and about 

 hall' sunk in the thin, crustaeeous, effused, black, slightly wrinkled, bare 

 stroma. Asci cylindrical, short-stipitate. 140-150x17 IJL (p. sp.), 8- 

 spored, with filiform paraphyses. Sporidia elliptic-oblong, dark brown, 

 18-20 x 12 //, with a gelatinous envelope. 



On horse dung, New York (Peck). 



We have never met with this species, and give it on the author- 

 ity quoted. Diagnosis from Winter. 



H. equoruiii, (Fckl.) (Plate 17) 



Hypoxylon equoritm, Fckl. F. Rh. 1058. 

 Cuprolepa equorum, Fckl. Symb. p. 240. 

 Sordaria equorum, Winter Deutsch. Sordar. p. 15. 

 Hypocopra equonim, Winter Die Pilze II, p. 178. 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 1058. Cke. F. Brit. 2d Ser. 241 and 242. Rehm Asc. 992. 



Perithecia scattered, about ^ mm. diam., globose, ]>ale brown, 

 their short, black, shining, papillose ostiola eruinpent through the thin, 

 crustose, black, villose-tomentose, broadly effused strorna. Asci cylin- 

 drical, short-stipitate, thickened at the apex, 8-spored, 175-200 x 

 15-18 /*, shorter than the simple, filiform, septate paraphyses. Spo- 

 ridia obliquely uniseriate, elliptical, or elongated-elliptical, subinequi- 

 lateral, dark, 19-21 x9-10 //. 



On horse dung in open woods, Newfield, N. J. 



Diffei-s from H. Jimeti in its villose stroma, larger, buried ])eri- 

 thecia and shorter ostiola. 



SPORORMIA, De Not. 



Micr. Ital. decas V, No. 6, (1849). 



Perithecia innate-emergent, meinbranaceous, glabrous or sub- 

 glabrous, black, with papillifonn ostiolum. Asci elongated, 8-spored. 

 Sporidia 4-20-celled, the cells soon separating, dark colored, mostly 

 fimicolous. 



Sp. minima, Awd. Hedwigia VI 11, ]. (>(). (Plate 18) 



Exsicc. Rab. F. E. 1339. Rehm Asc. 34. Thum. M. U. 2167. EH. N. A. F. 198. 



Perithecia scattered, about half sunk in the matrix, 100-1 14 // 

 diam., meinbranaceous, black, bare, with a very small, papilliform 



