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Pod. coprophila, (Fries.) 



Sph&ria coprophila, Fr. S. M. II, p. 342. 

 Hypoxylon coprophilnm, Fr. Summa Veg. Sc. p. 348. 

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

 Podospora coprophila, Winter, Pilze, p. 172. 

 Cercopho) a mirabili*, Fckl. Symb. p. 245. 



Exsicc Fckl. F. Rh. 2271. Rab. Herb. Myc. 257. icl. F. E. 830. Rehni Asc. 198, 234. 

 Ell. N. A. F 409. Sydow Myc. March, 864. Sacc. M. Veil. 1492. 



Perithecia crowded, subconfluent, at first covered, except the 

 black ostiolmn. with a thin, white tomentimi and immersed, but soon 

 more or less emerirent and bare, ovate or pyriform, dirty black, osti- 

 olum obtuse, subconical. Asci pedicellate, cylindric-clavate, p. sp. 

 1 00-1 50 x 16-20 //, 8-spnred. Sporidia subbiseriate, ellipsoid, opake 

 (when mature), 18-2~> x 8-10 //, with a hyaline appendage below about 

 twice as lonir as the sporidium and terminated by two short, secondary 

 appendages, of \vhich there is also one at the upper end of the spo- 

 ridiuin. 



On cow (.luii" 1 . common. 



Sec. \Yomiiin this species has pycnidia and connJia. The first 

 onsist ol' globose receptacles (perithecia), 50-70 // <liam.. pierced 

 above, with 10-12 bristles around the opening, discharging the minute, 

 hyaline, globose or ovate stylospores in the form of cirrhi. The 

 conidial apparatus consists of abundant, small, flask-shaped bodies aris- 

 ing from a mycelium, ajid filled with small, globose bodies which, when 

 discharged from the apical opening, surround themselves with a mem- 

 brane in which they are visible as a bright central nucleus. The 

 further development of these so-called conidia is still unknown. A 

 similar growth is also found with some other species of Sordariece. 



Pod. ciirvula, (de Bary), var. aloides, Winter, DeutschSord. p. 39. 



Sph&ria valsoides, Pk. 28th Rep. p. 78. 

 Sordaria aloides, Fckl. Symb. Nachtr. II, p. 43. 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rhen. 2549. 



Perithecia scattered, semiimmersed, black, globose-conical, about 

 1 mm. high, nearly smooth below, surrounded just below the apex by 

 4-8 compact tufts of hairs closely glued together and forming little 

 horn-like processes, which soon curve downward so as to bear some 

 resemblance to the leaves of an Aloe (whence the name), but finally 

 the hairs composing the tufts separate and stand erect. Asci long-stij >- 

 itate (p. sp. 146 x 26-28 p. Fckl.) Sporidia biseriate, ovate-oblong, 

 becoming opake .with a hyaline, straight appendage at the lower end. 

 about as long as the sporidium. Sporidia 34 x 16 t a (Fckl.), 27-33 /JL 

 long, (Peck). 

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