SORDARIA 51 
Distinctive character: The peculiar gelatinous covering of 
the spore. 
Cultivated specimen: On horse dung, Summit, Mont., Aug. 
1900 (Griffiths & Lange). 
This species is very closely related to the genus Pleurage in- 
asmuch as the spores have an apiculum which is a part of the 
original hyaline cylindrical spore which has been cut off in the 
process of development as described elsewhere. The gelatinous 
coating which, however, covers only a third of the spore and 
which is rather persistent compared with many species, together 
with the perforate ascus place the species in the genus Sordaria 
without any doubt. 
. SORDARIA DISCOSPORA Awd. ; Niessl, Beitr. Kenntn. Pilze Brün, 
SENA *: Abhand. LAN. Gesell. zu Halle, 13: 83-85. 
8.7.8, 1873. 
Hypocopra discospora (Awd.) Fuckel, Symbol. Mycol. Nach- 
trap 2: 43. 1873. Sacc. Syll Fung. f£: 240. 1882, 
Sordaria platyspora P. & P. Grevillea, 6: 28. pl. 94. f. 2. 
1877. 
Hypocopra platyspora (P. & P.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. I: 241. 
1882. 
Perithecia scattered, usually sunken, 220—270 p in diameter, 
thin membranaceous and often quite brittle, dark brown to black 
and opaque, subglobose to pyriform, with short papilliform to 
conical black beak which is covered like the exposed portions of 
the perithecium with short, erect, dark brown or black hairs. 
Asci 8-spored, broadly rounded to truncate and perforate above, 
and contracted below into a short blunt stipe, 75-130 # x 13-21 4t: 
paraphyses filiform, septate, slightly longer than the asci. 
Spores uniseriate, flattened, subcircular to broadly ellipsoid 
in one view and narrowly elliptical in the other, 8-11 #. x 10-18 4, 
the germ pore extending nearly the entire length of spore; hyaline 
covering eg when spores have been removed from the 
ascus. (A. 3 .) 
Distincáve ram NM Bristly hairs of perithecia and com- 
paratively large flattened spores. 
Cultivated specimens : On horse dung, New York City, N. Y., 
and Ft. Lee, N. J., summer, 1899; cow dung, Highmore, S. D., 
* This reference has not been seen, but a en of the original description occurs 
in Hedwigia, Yz: 3L. 108 
