Hypocopra 93 
III. HYPOCOPRA Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 2: 397. 1849; 
N. Am. Pyren. 133. 1892; Rabenhorst, Krypt.-Flora, 1°: 
177. 1887; Cohn’s Krypt.-Flora. Schleisen, 37: 289. 1894. 
Coprolepa Fuckel, Symb. Mycol. p. 239. 1869. Saccardo, 
Syll. Fung. 1: 248. 1882; 9: 493. 189r. 
Perithecia situated below a black crusty stoma with projecting, 
usually papilliform beaks, completely surrounded by a dense 
feltwork of white mycelium by which they are firmly attached to 
the substratum. Asci containing an apical body which colors, 
usually blue with iodine. Paraphyses filiform to tubular never 
ventricose. Spores ellipsoid, dark colored, surrounded by a promi- 
nent gelatinous envelope and containing a lateral germ slit. 
Key to the Species 
Spores apiculate. 
Spores very large, 24-28 u X 52-61 u. 1. A. gigaspora. 
res ×× لوه‎ small, 17-20 u X 32-38 u. 2. H. amphisphaeroides. 
Spores not apicula 
Stoma pee iod containing an indefinite number of perithecia. 
Perithecia sunken. A H. equorum. 
Perithecia half sunken . H. fimeti. 
Stoma with definite boun "s ary and containing 1 to P perithecia or by con- 
ncy of individual stromas it may contain many. 
Spores biseriate. 
5 
troma violet within. T H. vio 
Stroma white within. E اس‎ 
orm uniseriate 
CH 
gai خی سوت‎ large, 18-24 u X 34-40 4. 
7. H. merdaria. 
Spores comparatively small, 6-7 u X 10-13 u. 
8. H. parvula. 
Beak enlarged and prominent, 9. H. rostrata. 
1. Hypocopra gigaspora (E. & E.) 
Coprolepa gigaspora E. & E., Bull. Torr. Club, 25: 
1898. 
Perithecia very large, scattered or aggravated in small clusters, 
sunken, with the short papilliform black smooth beak irrumpent 
through the smooth black convex shield-shaped stroma, about 
.75 X I mm., membranaceous to coriaceous, colorless to brown 
and densely covered with a fine white mycelium which becomes 
gradually differentiated above into a. true stroma. 
