68 NORTH AMERICAN SORDARIACEAE 
o PLEURAGE AMPHICORNIS (Ellis) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Plant. 3°: 505. 
|. 1898 
Sphaeria (Sordaria) amphicornis El. Bull Torr. Club, 6: 
109. 1876. 
Sphaeria eximia Peck, Reg. Rep. 28: 78. pl. 2. f. 74-18. 1875. 
Podospora amphicorms (Ell) E. & E. N. Am. Pyren. 130. 
1392. 
Sordaria amphicornis El. Sacc. Syll. Fung. 1: 235. 1882. 
Perithecia scattered, superficial or with base slightly sunken, 
350—400 # x 450-600 p, membranaceous to coriaceous, black and 
covered sparingly with short, straight septate brown hairs, ovate 
to ovate-conical with short flat papilliform black ostiolum. 
Asci 8-spored, clavate, contracted and rounded above, and 
tapering below in a short stipitate base, 32-35 م‎ x 185—225 p. 
The characteristics of the paraphyses can not be determined from 
the dried specimens at hand. 
Spores biseriate, ellipsoid, somewhat sharply rounded at the 
ends, 14-18 4 x 24-32 ہم‎ dark brown and opaque when mature ; 
primary appendage cylindrical, straight, about one-third to two- 
third as long.as spore ; secondary appendages long, lash-like, ge- 
latinous, attached to apex of spore and tip of primary appendage, 
composed of two closely united filaments which become indistin- 
guishable distally. (AZ. 7. f. 17-13. 
Distinctive characters : Hairy superficial perithecium with small 
papilliform beak 
Dry specimens: On rabbit dung, Kosoag, New York, July 
1874; rabbit dung, Newfield, N. J., Aug. 1885 (Ellis) ; Bruse 
Peninsula, Canada, Aug. 1898 (Dearness). 
Regarding the synonomy of this species, see Ellis & Everhart, 
North American Pyren. 130, note. 
10. Pleurage superior sp. nov. 
Perithecia superficial, scattered, thin, membranaceous, brown 
and somewhat transparent to black and opaque in age, pyriform 
with short papilliform curved or erect beak, about 450x600 زم‎ 
the whole perithecium covered with short blunt septate brown 
hyaline-tipped bristle-like hairs which are uniformly distributed 
over the entire surface with the exception of a small area around 
the ostiolum. 
Asci 8-spored, clavate, contracted and rounded above and 
tapering below into a long rather slender crooked stipe, 
250—275 x 30-40 ہم‎ evanescent: paraphyses somewhat ventricose, 
