i:;i 



H. iinieti. (Pers.) 



Sphand timed, lVrs. Syn. p. 64. 

 llvfxnopia fiineti, Vv. 1. c. 



Sordaria fttmeti, Winter, Deutach, Sord. p. 14. 

 ( 'oproUpaJlmeti, Sacc. Syli. 903. 



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

 broad, ending above in a thick, conical, mostly oblique neck, and aboul 

 half sunk in the ihin, crustaceous, effused, black, slightly wrinkled, bare 

 stroma. Asci cylindrical, Bhort-stipitate, 140-150x17 n (p. Bp.), 8- 

 Bpored, with filiform paraphyses, Sporidia elliptic-oblong, dark brown, 

 1820 x l- //. 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. eq iionmi. (Fekl.) (Plate 17) 



//i/Vt yton ,;/ii, >i nm h Pckl. H. Kh. 1058. 

 ( 'of>toli-f>ii tfUOTMM, Fckl, Syinl). p. 240. 



iaria q u or u m, Winter Deutach'. Sordar. p, 13. 



//\/>t >((>/>>, 1 tguorwn, Winter Die Pilse 11, p, 17*. 

 Bxatec, Pcki i". Rh. 105s. eke, i". Brit id Ber. m and 94a. Rehm Asc. 992. 



Perithecia scattered, about | mm. diam., globose, pale brown, 

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

 crustose, black, rillose-tomentose, broadly effused stroma. Asci cylin- 

 drical, shoi-t-stipitatc, thickened at the apex. S-spored. 175-200X 

 1618 -/I, shorter than the simple, filiform, septate paraphyses. Spo- 

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



laleral. dark. 19-21 X 9-10 J*. 



On horse dung in open woods, Newfield, N. .1. 

 Differs from H* fimeti in its villose stroma, larger, buried peri- 

 thecia and shorter ostiola. 



SPORORMIA. De Not. 



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



Perithecia innate-emergent, membranaceous, glabrous or sub- 

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



Sporidia l-_0-eelled. the cells soon separating, dark colored, mostly 

 fimicolons. 



Sp. iiiiiiima. Awd. Hedwigia Y1I1. p. 66. (Plat* IS) 



Bxalcc Rab, P. K. 1339, -Rehm Aac. 34 Thum, m c. --107. --kii. n. a. f. ios. 

 Perithecia scattered, about half sunk in the matrix. 100-114// 



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



