SORDARIA 47° 
horse, sheep and rabbit dung, Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 1900 (Tyler) ; 
horse, deer and rabbit dung, Mesilla Park, N. M., and vicinity, Jan. 
1900 (Wooton); horse dung, Proctor, Vt., Aug., 1899 (Banker) ; 
horse dung, Schaghticoke, N. Y., Aug. 1899 (Banker) ; rabbit, 
horse, and cow dung, London, Ont., Aug. 1899 (Dearness) ; horse 
dung, Huron, Highmore and Brookings, S. D., summer, 1899 
(Carter); rabbit dung, Auburn, Ala., Aug. 1899 (Earle); horse 
dung, Biloxi, Miss., Sept. 1899 (Tracy); horse, cow, rabbit and 
dog dung, Austin, Tex., Jan. 1900 (Long); horse, cow and rabbit 
dung, Rooks Co., Kan., Aug. 1899 (Bartholomew); horse dung, 
Emma, Mo., Aug. 1899 (Demetrio); horse dung, Summit and 
Great Falls, Mont., Aug. 1900 (Griffiths and Lange). 
6. SORDARIA HUMANA (Fuckel) Awd. Abhand. naturforsch. Gesell. 
zu Halle, 13: 85. p/. 8.f.9. 1873. Rabenh. Krypt. Flora, 
I': 166. 1887. Ellis & Everhart, N. Am. Pyren. 126. 1892. 
Sphaeria humana Fuckel, Fung. Rhenani, no. 1801. 
Hypocopra humana Fuckel, Symbol. Mycol. 241. 1869; 
Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 1: 240. 1882. 
Sordaria sphaerospora E. & E. North American Pyren. 128. 
1892. 
Hypocopra sphaerospora (E. & E.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 11: 280. 
1895. 
Perithecia scattered and sunken, with projecting papilliform 
beaks or aggregated in solid clusters and erumpent in such a way 
as to be completely exposed at maturity, about 350 / x 600 مم‎ 
thin, membranaceous, dark brown to black, pyriform with papilli- 
form to slightly cylindrical beak. 
Asci 8-spored, cylindrical, broadly rounded to truncated above 
and tapering below into a short blunt stipe, quite persistent, 17— 
19 ۸ X 160-200 p: paraphyses large, ventricose, longer than the 
asci and not much mixed with them. 
Spores obliquely uniseriate, obovate, broadly rounded above 
and acutely so below, 14-18 ۸ x 21-23 م‎ ranging from hyaline 
when young through olivaceous to dark brown and opaque: 
gelatinous envelope becoming very prominent in water and cover- 
ing the entire spore except the circular germ pore at lower end 
of the spore around which it appears firmly attached. (77. 5, کر‎ 
16-18 and Pl. 4, f. 14—16.) 
Distinctive characters: Dark pyriform smooth perithecia, and 
obovate spores. 
