94 NortH AMERICAN SORDARIACEAE 
Asci 8-spored, cylindrical, broadly rounded above and abruptly 
contracted below into a short triangular base, 45-524 x 375, 
x 480; apical structure very prominent and staining bright blue 
with iodine: paraphyses tubular to filiform, tapering upward, sep- 
tate, coarsely guttulate, longer than the asci and mixed with them. 
Spores obliquely uniseriate, ellipsoid to oval and broadly 
rounded at the ends, 24-28 4x 52—61 رم‎ ranging from hyaline 
when young through yellow to dark brown and opaque, tipped 
below with a short blunt hyaline apiculum ; germinal slit lat- 
eral, rather indistinct, extending nearly the entire length of the 
spore, surrounded by a hyaline gelatinous zone which becomes 
very prominent in water. (77. rz. f. 12-15 
Distinctive character: Large size مرو ییا‎ and the apiculate 
spore. 
Dry specimens : On cow dung, British Columbia, June 1897 
(Macoun). 
2. Hypocopra amphisphaeroides (E. & E.) 
Sordaria amphisphaeroides E. & E., Am. Nat. 31: 340-341. 
1897 ; Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 14 : 492. 1899 
Perithecia scattered or aggregated in small clusters of 2—4, 
sunken, with a short black papilliform beak projecting through the 
small discoid black smooth indistinctly bounded stroma, about 
.75 mm. in diameter, thin, membranaceous and densely covered 
with a fine white mycelium which ‘gradually changes above into 
the black stromatic shield. 
Asci 8-spored, cylindrical, broadly rounded above and contracted 
below into a short blunt stipe, 24-26 بر 240-280 عام‎ apical body 
prominent and staining intensely blue with iodine: paraphyses 
filiform, septate, tapering upward, coarsely guttulate, longer than 
the asci and mixed with them. 
Spores obliquely uniseriate, ellipsoid, broadly rounded at the 
ends, 17-20 p x 32-38 ,م‎ tipped below with a small hyaline quite 
persistent apiculum ; germ-slit marginal and extending about two- 
thirds the length of the spore ; hyaline n prominent and ex- 
tending greatly when placed in water. (Pl. Ir. f. سو‎ 
Distinctive characters : Hyaline ee of the spores and 
guttulate paraphyses; otherwise as /7. merdaria. 
Dry specimen : On cow dung, Rooks Co., Kan., Aug. 1896 
(Bartholomew). 
3. Hypocopra EQUORUM (Fuckel) Wint.; Rabenhorst, Krypt.- 
Flora, 1': 178. 1887; Cohn’s Krypt.-Flora. Schleisen. 3°: 
289. 1894; N. Am. Pyren. 134. A, r7. 7. 4. 1893. 
