10 NortH AMERICAN SORDARIACEAE 
tapering below into a long stipe, evanescent, 55-65 مم‎ x 330- 
375 م‎ : paraphyses abundant, filiform or slightly ventricose below, 
tapering upward, much longer than the asci. 
Spores biseriate, 4 and 4 or 2 and 6, ellipsoid, 27-32 ۸ x 
53-60 ہم‎ ranging from hyaline when young through olivaceous 
to dark brown and opaque; primary appendage clavate and 
slightly shorter than the spore ; secondary appendages very long 
and attached to distal end of the primary and excentrically to the 
apex of the spore, the upper one larger than the lower, and each 
made up of two distinct parts closely united, and each of these in 
turn showing longitudinal striations which indicate still finer sub- 
divisions. (PI. 8. f. 1-5. 
Distinctive characters: Hairiness of the perithecium and long 
peculiar spore appendages. 
Cultivated specimens: On horse dung, New York City, July 
1899; cow dung, Ft. Lee, N. J., Oct. 1899; horse dung, Fair- 
field, N. Y., Aug. 1899 (Banker); horse and cow dung, Schagh- . 
ticoke and Baldwinsville, N. Y., Aug. 1899 (Banker); horse 
dung, London, Canada, Aug. 1899 (Dearness); horse dung, 
Brookings, S. D., Nov. 1899 (Carter); horse dung, Aberdeen, 
5. D., Sept. 1899 (Towne). 
Otto Kuntze in his late work adopts the name quoted above, 
under the impression that Schizothecium fimicolum Corda= Podo- 
spora fimicola Ces. He must however have done this in en- 
tire ignorance of either the figures of Corda or Cesati. As stated 
elsewhere it is impossible to determine exactly what species Corda 
had, but a mere glance at his figures will convinceone that he had 
one of the species with agglutinated hairs and appendaged spores. 
Both of these species belong to the genus Pleurage, but they are 
not the same plant by any means. It is true that some authors 
have referred the two to the same species doubtfully, but Rehm 
refers Corda's species questionably to P. curvula DeBary. Rehm 
is more nearly correct than the other authors, but it can not be 
determined with certainty. We are thus left the alternative of 
adopting Cesati's homonym or the name given later by Cesati 
and De Notaris. The latter, of course, appears the better plan. 
This leaves Schisothecium fimicolum Corda an undetermined and 
indeterminable species, but one without doubt belonging to the 
genus Pleurage, as the type of that genus. 
The species is of much interest for several reasons. Much of 
