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white sugar, but these at length disappear: asci linear-lanceolate, 
contracted towards each end and perforate above, 200 o long and 
over (including the filiform base), and 12-15 م‎ wide, with abundant 
paraphyses : sporidia biseriate, elliptical, brown, 14-16 ۸۸ x 8-10 p, 
the upper end acute or with a short hyaline appendage 8-12 م‎ 
long, the lower end prolonged into a yellowish-hyaline cylin- 
drical curved appendage 35-40 م‎ x 5 p. 
On ‘decaying weed" Pointe à la Hache, P. O., La. (Lang- 
lois). 
The above description is taken from North American Pyre- 
nomycetes. From the dried specimens at hand, I am unable to 
distinguish a perforation in the ascus as described. 
19. Pleurage albicans (Alb. & Schw.) 
Sphaeria albicans Alb. & Schw. Conspectus fungorum, 36. 
1805. 
Sphaeria coprophila Fries ; Kunze, Myc. Hefte, 2: 38. 1823; 
Systema Mycologicum, 2: 342. 1823. 
Hypoxylon coprophilum Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 2: 384. 
1849. 
Podospora coprophila (Fries) Rehm ; Rabenhorst, سی‎ -Flora, 
4°: 092. 1887: N. Am- Fyren. 129, 1892. 
Sordaria coprophila (Fries) Ces. & DeNot. Comment. Soc. 
Crit. Ital. 1:226. 1863; Abhand. naturforsch. Gesell. zu Halle, 
I3: 90. pl. 9. f. 14. 1877; Cohn’s Krypt.-Flora Schlesien, 3°: 
287. 1894. 
"Dd coprophila (Fries) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Plant. 3? : 505 
Petthecia scattered and half sunken, or aggregated and even 
covered with a white tomentum which disappears with age and 
moisture, pyriform, with papilliform ostiolum, coriaceous, black 
and opaque. 
Asci 8-spored, cylindrical to slightly clavate, rounded above 
and contracted below into a long slender stipe, very evanescent 
and with a hyaline homogeneous highly refractive particle in 
the apex, 15-22 u x 125-2004: paraphyses very evanescent, 
ventricose, agglutinated, longer than the asci. 
pores biseriate, ellipsoid to ovate, 9-11 4 x 18-30 4, ranging 
from hyaline when young through olivaceous to dark-brown and 
