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globose, covered, except the papillose-conical, black ostiolum, with a 

 dense, light yellow toinentum composed of branching, slightly rough- 

 ened hairs. Asei lanceolate, rounded and perforated at the apex, 

 190-1 30 x 15 //. >poridia 12-16 in an ascus, at first vennii'orin and 

 greenish-yellow, finally almond-shaped and opake. 14-16x7-8 IJL. with 

 a cylindrical, curved appendage, 30-35x4 /^, attached to its base and 

 a short, slender appendage, about 15x2 a. at the apex. The asci are 

 very evanescent. The yellow coat also turns black at maturity. A 

 closely allied species, with sporidia 22-25x12-15 //. has been met 

 with on dead herbaceous stems, but we have not sufficient material to 

 give a full description. 



On rotten wood ( Acer and AWWr/), in swampy woods. Xewfiehl, 

 X. J. ? November, 1870, and Augii>t. 1S87. 



The perithecia ar- represented in the drawing (fig. 2) as attenu- 



ated above into a distinct, beak-like neck. This is exceptional. Usu- 

 ally there is only the globose-conical, black ostiolum without any 

 distinct neck. The apical appendage is often only rudimentary or 

 wanting. 



Ph. canina. (Pk.) 



Split?) ia canina, Pk. 2Mb Rt-p. X. V. State Mus. p. 78. 

 I'hilocnpra canina, Sacc. Syll. 911. 



Perithecia minute, scattered or crowded, free, suhglobose. red- 

 dish-brown or dark amber color, then blackish. Asci broad-oblone or 



o 



oblanceolate. Sporidia numerous, elliptical, slightly colored. 0-S u. 

 long.' 3 



On dung of dogs. Bethlehem. X. V. (Peck). 



Ph. nmltifera, (B. & Rav.) 



multifera, B. & Rav. Grev. IV, p. 143. 

 Philocopra multifera, Sacc. Sj-ll. 913. 



"Minute, black, suhglobose. Asci short, oblong, blunt, filled 

 with numerous. subglobose. brown sporidia 0-7 // diam." 

 On cow dung, Pennsylvania. 



HYPOCOPRA, Fr. 



Summa Veg. Scancl. p. 397, Winter Die Pilze, p. 177. (11011 Fuckel). 



Stroma jiresent. Perithecia more or less sunk in the stroma. 

 S]oridia one-celled, brown or black, without appendages, but surroundei I 

 by a gelatinous zone. Paraphyses jn-esent, filiform. Distinguished 

 from the species of Sordni'iu with gelatinous-zoned sporidia. by the 

 presence of a stroma. 



