76 NORTH AMERICAN SORDARIACEAE 
16. Pleurage vestita (Zopf) 
Eusordaria vestita Zopf, Zeitschrift gesammt. Naturwissen- 
schaften (Halle), 56: 556. pl. 6. f. 10-19. 1883; Schenk, 
Handbuch der Bot. 4: 362.7. 60. 1890. 
Podospora vestita (Zopf) Rehm; Rabenhorst Kryptogamen- 
Bloat E 176.. 1887 
Perithecia usually more or less sunken, but often quite super- 
ficial, scattered or aggregated in a dense growth of brown or oli- 
vaceous mycelium which covers the perithecium up to the black 
bare curved or straight cylindrical beak, pyriform, thin, mem- 
branaceous, black above but greenish below, especially in the 
sunken portions which are so transparent that the asci and spores 
can be quite distinctly seen, 400-525 # x 675-825 ۰ 
Asci 8-spored, clavate, contracted and rounded above, and 
tapering below into a medium sized pedicel, very evanescent 40-55 
^ x 180-210 u: paraphyses ventricose, very evanescent, longer 
than the asci. 
Spores biseriate, ellipsoid to ovate, rounded above and below, 
but more narrawly so above, ranging from hyaline when young 
through olivaceous to dark brown and opaque, 18-22 p x 28-35 
4: spore terminated below by a cylindrical primary appendage 
as long as the spore or slightly longer, which is tipped with three 
or four long gelatinous appendages which are similar in all re- 
spects to those found at the apex of spore. (Pl. 9. f. 5-8 
Distinctive characters: Abundant mycelium and the four ter- 
minal gelatinous secondary spore appendages. 
Cultivated specimens : On cow dung, New York City, May 
1899; cow dung, Ft. Lee, N. J., July 1899; horse dung, Engle- 
wood, N. J., Sept. 1899; cow and sheep dung, Meridian, N. Y., 
Aug. 1899 (Banker); cow dung, Newfield, N. J., Aug. 1899 
(Ellis); dead culms of Eleocharis palustris, Aberdeen, S. D., May 
1896; rabbit, sheep, horse, and cow dung, Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 
1900 (Tyler); horse dung, Gunnison, Colo., Aug. 1899 (Barthol- 
omew); horse and cow dung, Emma, Mo., Aug. 1899 (Deme- 
trio) ; horse, cow, and sheep dung, Mesilla Park, NM. Jan. 1900 
(Wooton) ; cow, horse, and pig dung, De Soto, La., Aug. 1899 
(Frierson) ; horse and cow dung, Brookings, S. D., July 1899 
(Carter); horse dung, Redfield, S. D., Sept. 1899 (Carter) ; horse 
and rabbit dung, Highmore, S. D., Aug. 1899 (Carter) ; cow 
rabbit, and horse dung, Austin, Texas, Jan. 1900 (Long). 
