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DELITSCHIA 101 
Asci 8-spored, cylindrical to very slightly clavate, broadly 
rounded above and contracted below into a rather long tapering 
stipe, 28-32 سی‎ x 225-260 p, rather persistent ` paraphyses fili- 
form, septate, abundant, longer than the asci and mixed with them. 
Spores obliquely uniseriate, ellipsoid, acutely rounded at the 
ends, obliquely uniseptate with a narrow deep constriction, 15-18 م‎ 
x 42-46 p, ranging from hyaline when young through yellow 
to dark brown and opaque, gelatinous envelope prominent and 
swelling greatly in water. (/7. 13. f. 4-6. 
Distinctive character: Uniseriate deeply constricted and ob- 
liquely septate spores. 
Cultivated specimens: On cow dung, New York City, Aug. 
1899; cow dung, Highmore, S. D., Sept. 1899 (Carter). 
While the perithecia in the South Dakota specimens were 
much more numerous than in the others they were still very 
scattering and few in number. I judge that the species seldom 
occurs very plentifully although it appears to be widely distributed. 
2. Delitschia eccentrica sp. nov 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, with a long projecting cylindrical 
truncate or rounded beak which is usually covered with short sep- 
tate brown hairs up to the enlarged bare black smooth or warty 
apex, .75 mm. x .30—50 mm., thin membranaceous, dark brown 
to black and opaque. 
Asci 8-spored, cylindrical, broadly rounded above and con- 
tracted below into a mode rately stout stipe, quite persistent, 
34-40 بر‎ x 330-370 p: paraphyses filiform, sparingly and indis- 
tinctly septate, longer than the asci and mixed with them. 
Spores ellipsoid, acutely rounded at both of the excentric ends, 
obliquely uniseptate with a broad very shallow constriction, 21-4 ۸ 
x 45-50 p, ranging from hyaline when young through yellow 
to dark brown and opaque; hyaline covering extending greatly 
in water. (PI. rj. f. 7-9. 
Distinctive MS. Beak of perithecium and obliquely 
'septate and narrowly constricted spores. 
Cultivated specimens : On cow dung, Austin, Texas, Jan. 1900, 
(Long); cow dung, Biloxi, Miss., Sept. 1899 (Tracy). 
3. Delitschia leporina sp. nov. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken with projecting, black, broad trun- 
cate, roughened or warty beak which is uniformly covered with 
long, flexuous, delicate, brown, septate hairs, about 500 م‎ x 600— 
750 ہم‎ pyriform to short cylindrical or conical truncate, thin, 
membranaceous, dark brown to black and opaque. 
