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70 fA, mostly 8-spored. Sporidia mostly biseriate, elliptical, 50-60 x 

 28-30 fi, dark brown, with a long, cylindrical, often curved appendage 

 of cellulose membranaceous structure below, and at the end of this 

 appendage, and also at the apex of the sporidium, with a gelatinous 

 appendage of various form. Paraphyses filiform, septate, longer than 

 the asci. 



On cow dung, New York State (Peck). 



Pod. striata, (E. & E.) 



Sordaria striata, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. IV, p. 79. 



Gregarious. Perithecia ovate-conical, mm. high and \ mm. 

 broad, black, tubercular-roughened, the tubercles seriate above so as 

 to cause the conical ostiola to appear striate. The tubercles are at 

 first capped with a few light colored granules, like grains of white 

 sugar, but these at length disappear. Asci linear-lanceolate, contracted 

 towards each end and perforated above, 200 ji long and over, (in- 

 cluding the filiform base) and 12-15 // wide, with abundant par- 

 aphyses. Sporidia biseriate, elliptical, brown, 14-16x8-10 ti. the 

 upper end acute or with a short hyaline appendage 8-12 ji long, the 

 lower end prolonged into a yellowish-hyaline, cylindrical, curved 

 appendage 35-40 x 5 fi. 



On decaying stems of some large weed. St Martinsville. La. 

 (Langlois). 



Pod. penicillata, (E. & E.) 



Sordaria penicillata, E. & E- Journ. Mycol. IV, p. 78. 



Perithecia gregarious, ovate, \-\ mm. diam., at first entirely buri- 

 ed except the protruding ostiolum, at length with the upper half emer- 

 gent; ostiolum short-cylindrical or obtusely conical and surrounded by 

 a tuft of straight, erect, closely crowded, pale brown, continuous hairs 

 \-\ mm. long. Asci oblong-cylindrical, about 150 x 20-2.") //. 4-spored, 

 with indistinct paraphyses. Sporidia subhyaline and clavate-cylindri- 

 cal at first, then olivaceous with a single large nucleus, finally elliptical 

 and opake, 25-30 x 18-20 p, with a cylindrical, nearly straight, hyaline 

 appendage 12-15 x 4-5 /z at the lower end. and the upper end obtusely 

 pointed or subtruncate. 



On an old decaying Chinese mat., St. Martinsville. La. (Langlois), 

 The measurements of the perithecia given in Journ. Mycol. for 

 this and Philocopra J idea were too small. 



