88 NortH AMERICAN SORDARIACEAE 
Ala, Aug. 1899 (Earle); dead stems of Salsola Kali tragus, 
Aberdeen, S. D. 
In a former paper* this species was published وه‎ 
pletospora Wint., but subsequent study has proven beyond a doubt 
that it is an entirely different thing. Indeed it is difficult now to 
see how this could have been mistaken for the above. As con- 
ceived at present the species has quite a range of variation. The 
simple hairs of the perithecium are generally absent; in only a 
few instances, in the Alabama specimens, have they been found 
aside from the Aberdeen forms in which they appeared quite con- 
stant. The New Jersey, Texas, and Brookings, S. D., cultures 
show no signs of any perithecial ornamentation except the fasicu- 
lated hairs mentioned in this description. 
The species appears most closely related to P. curvula from 
which it differs mainly in size and the number of spores in the 
ascus. 
28. PLEURAGE CURVICOLLA (Wint.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Plant. 3°: 
505. 1898 
Sordaria curvicolla Wint. Hedwigia, 10: 161. 1871; Abhand. 
naturforsch. Gesell. zu Halle, 13: 98-99. pl. zo. J. 19. 1873; 
Griffiths, Bull. Torr. Club, 26: 437. pl. 365. E 13-15. 1899. 
Philocopra curvicolla (Wint.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 1: 250. 1882. 
Perithecia sunken, scattered, but often erumpent and half super- 
ficial at maturity, 350—450 م‎ x 550-600 p, thin, membranaceous, 
transparent, greenish to fuscous, pyriform with black projecting 
rather stout papilliform beak, which is ornamented mostly below the 
middle, with bunches of long nearly straight acuminate very 
sparingly septate greenish to brown hairs. 
Asci 128—256 (?)-spored, widely clavate to sac-like, broadly 
en above and contracted below into a short stipe, 70-120 u 
225-280 pr: paraphyses tubular to filiform, tapering upwards, 
nist longer than the asci. 
Spores in many series, ellipsoid or slightly ovate, 10-11 p x 
13.5-16 زم‎ ranging from hyaline when young through olivaceous 
to dark brown and opaque, terminated below by a short primary 
appendage ; this in turn, as well as the apex of the spore, is tipped 
with a long lash-like gelatinous hyaline very fugacious secondary 
appendage. (PI. ro. f. 1-6.) 
* Bull. Torr. Club, 26: 438. 1899. 
