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s with apiculum at lower end only. 9. S. alpina. 
Beak سس‎ conical or wanting 
yaline envelope surrounding lower third of spore va 
. S. seminuda. 
Hyaline envelope surrounding entire spore. 
Spores conspicuously flattened, comparatively 7 and subcircular. 
. S. discospora. 
Spores comparatively small, ellipsoid to silos 
. S. leucoplaca. 
Asci 32-spored. o S. philocoproides 
I. SORDARIA BOMBARDIOIDES Awd.; Niessl, Beitrage zur Kent- 
niss der Pilze (Brünn) 1872 *; Hedwigia, I2: 130. 1873. 
Rabenh. Krypt.-Flora, 17: 168. 1887. Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 
I:233. 1882. Ellis & Everhart, N. Am. Pyren. 128. 1892. 
Hypocopra bombardioides (Awd.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 1: 243. 
1882 
Perithecia superficial, crowded and confluent at base, .5 mm. 
wide by 1 mm. long ; thick coriaceous, chestnut-brown to black ; 
oval, oblong or pyriform, broadly rounded above and terminating 
in a small papilliform ostiolum 
Asci 8-spored, cylindrical, broadly rounded above and taper- 
ing below into a short stipe, 20-30 x 150-2104: paraphyses 
filiform, septate, agglutinated, longer than the asci. 
Spores obliquely uniseriate, oval, broadly rounded at the ends 
and often inequilateral, 12-14 ۸ x 26-34 رم‎ ranging from hyaline 
when young through yellow to dark brown and opaque: gelati- 
nous ae prominent and swelling greatly when placed in water 
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characters: Shape, size and prominence of the‏ سس 
perithecia. 
Dry specimens: On horse dung, Mt. Shasta, California. 
(Harkness) ; horse dung, Michigan, 1893 (Hicks) ; horse and cow 
dung, Summit, Mont., Aug. 1900 (Griffiths & Lange). 
Cultivated specimens: On horse and cow dung, Summit, 
Mont., Aug. 1900 (Griffiths & Lange). 
The wall of the perithecium swells enormously in water and 
then may be easily separated into two layers, an outer gelatinous 
and an inner more firm and rigid one. When the outer portion 
is removed there remains a somewhat clavate doubly papilli- 
form body containing the spores. A 10-per-cent. solution of 
* This reference is not at hand but the next is a reprint of the original description. 
