104 NORTH AMERICAN SORDARIACEAE 
Cultivated specimens : On horse and cow dung, Austin, Texas, 
Jan. 1900 (Long); cow dung, Englewood, N. J., July 1899; cow 
dung, Proctor, Vt., Aug. 1899 (Banker); horse dung, Aberdeen, 
S. D., Sept. 1899 (Towne); cow dung, Rooks Co., Kan., July 1899 
(Bartholomew); cow and horse dung, Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 1900 
(Tyler) ; cow dung, Biloxi, Miss., Aug. 1899 (Tracy); horse dung, 
Missoula, Mont., Jan. 1900 (Elrod); horse dung, Brookings, S. 
D., Nov. 1899 (Carter); cow dung, Kingston, R. I, Dec. 1899 
(Underwood) ; horse dung, Great Falls, and Summit, Mont., Aug., 
1900 (Griffith & Lange); cow dung, Family, Mont., Aug. 1900. 
7. Delitschia vulgaris sp. nov. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, subglobose to pyriform with a long 
cylindrical curved or twisted beak which is densely covered with 
short wavy brown sparingly septate hairs, 375-450 » x 600-7 50; t, 
thin membranaceous, brown to black and opaque 
Asci 8-spored, cylindrical, broadly rounded above and con- 
tracted below into a stout tapering stipe, persistent, 24-27 x 
185-215 ۸ : en filiform, septate, abundant, longer than the 
asci and mixed with the 
Spores obliquely Ge two-celled, broadly rounded at the 
ends, constriction broad and shallow, 13-16 ۸ x 27-30 p, ranging 
from hyaline when young through yellow to dark brown and 
opaque ; hyaline envelope prominent and swelling greatly in water. 
(Pl. 14. f. 4-6. 
Distinctive characters : Long hairy beak and oval spores. 
Cultivated specimens : Frequent on horse and cow dung, New 
York city and Ft. Lee, N. J., summer and autumn, 1899; cow 
dung, Auburn, Ala., Aug. 1899 (Earle). 
Although this species was found on at least a dozen cultures 
from the localities quoted, it was always found in very small quan- 
tities. Often but two or three perithecia, and never over a dozen 
have been found in the same culture. 
8. Delitschia apiculata sp. nov. 
Perithecia half sunken, scattered or aggregated in small clusters, 
sparingly covered with short straight acuminate brown uniseptate 
bristly hairs. 
Asci 8-spored, clavate, broadly rounded above and contracted 
below into a long tapering stipe, very evanescent, 32-38 مر‎ x 160- 
