PLEURAGE 83 
Cultivated specimens : On cow dung, Fort Lee, and horse dung, 
Englewood, N. J., July 1899; cow, sheep, and horse dung, New- 
field. N. J., Aug. 1899 (Ellis); cow and horse dung, Rooks Co., 
n., July 1899 (Bartholomew); horse dung, New York City, 
Oct. 1899; horse dung, Aberdeen, S. D., Oct. 1895 ; horse, cow, 
and prairie dog dung, Highmore, S. D., July 1899 (Carter) ; rabbit 
and muskrat dung, Bronx Park, N. Y., Jan. 1900 (Percy Wilson) ; 
cow dung, Proctor, Vt., Aug. 1899 (Banker); cow and horse 
dung, London, Canada, Aug. 1899 (Dearness) ; horse, dog, and 
cow dung, Austin, Tex., Jan. 1900 (Long) ; cow dung, Kingston, 
R. I., Dec. 1899 (Underwood); horse, cow, and rabbit dung, 
Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 1900 (Tyler); cow dung, Auburn, Ala., Aug. 
1899 (Earle); horse dung, Mesilla Park, N. M., Jan. 1900 
(Wooton) ; cow and horse dung, Biloxi, Miss., Sept. 1899 (Tracy); 
horse and cow dung, Summit, Family, and Great Falls, Mont., Aug. 
1900 (Griffiths & Lange); horse dung, Benson, Ariz., Oct. 1900. 
This is a very common and widely distributed species which 
naturally exhibits considerable variety in many of its character- 
istics. Often, when the perithecia are completely sunken in the 
substratum, they are transparent enough to enable one to study 
the behavior of the asci in ejection of the spores, while at other 
times, when they are more or less superficial, the perithecium wall 
is black and opaque. Very often the beak of the perithecium is 
perfectly smooth. Externally the perithecia resemble those of 2 
vestita very closely. The lyre-shaped tuft of appendages on the 
apex of the spore is subject to great variation. Each gelatinous 
filament appears to be made up of two parts, a distal very fugacious 
and a proximal more persistent one. In the young state the distal 
portions appear fused and show their true structure only at ma- 
turity. 
22. Pleurage Kansensis sp. nov. 
Perithecia scattered or aggregated, sunken or nearly superfi- 
cial, exposed portion covered with long flexuous olivaceous to 
brown septate hairs, 375—450 4 x 600-800 sA thin, membrana- 
ceous, greenish below when young, but becoming completely 
black and bare at maturity: beak papilliform to ایور سوہ‎ black, 
bare and usually curved. 
Asci 8-spored, cylindrical, broadly rounded above and con- 
tracted below into a short slender stipe, 26-32 ۸ x 180-240 1, 
