127 



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



with a gelatinous envelope, 15-21 x 10-15 ft. 



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



S. hippica, Sacc. Syll. 900. 



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



" Perithecia springing from a thin, effused, white mycelium. ( )<\\- 

 ola black, papilliferum Sporidia short-cymbiform, 15 /i long." 

 On horse dung, So. Carolina (Ravenel). 



S. leueoplaca, (Berk. & Rav.) 



Sphceria leueoplaca, B. & Rav. Grev. IV, p. 143. 

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

 Hypoeopra leueoplaca, Sacc. Syll. 887. 

 Kxsicc. Rav. Fungi Car. Kxsicc. 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 ju), at 

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

 Ostiolum obtusely conical. Asci cylindrical, rounded at the apex, 

 p. sp. 40-45x7 (J.) paraphyses not seen. Sporidia uniseriate, short- 

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



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 Sjiorormia minima. Sor dar ia minima, S. A >.. 

 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. 

 Sor dar ia fimicola, Ces &De Not. Schema, p. 52. 



Hypoeopra fimeti and stercoraria, Fckl. Symb. I, p. 240 & 241. (sec. Winter.) 

 Hypoeopra fimicola, Sacc. Syll. 869. 



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

 Sor dar ia fimicola, Winter Pilze p. 166. 

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

 1181. Sydow. M. March. 539. Rab. F.F. 3254 Krieg. F. Sax. 275. Desm. Plantes 

 Crypt, de Fr. 2061. 



Perithecia mostly densely gregarious, ovate, J mm. diam. the base 

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

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

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

 paraphyses ventricose. Sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, becoming opake, 



