106 NORTH AMERICAN SORDARIACEAE 
V. SPORORMIA DeNotaris, Microm. Italici novi vel minus cogniti, 
Dec. V. No. 6. 1845; Rabenhorst, Krypt.-Flora, 1?: 180. 
1887; N. Am. Pyren. 134. 1892; Cohn, Krypt.-Flora 
Schlesien, 37: 290. 1894; Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 2: 123; 9: 
810: 1: 3265 245 577. 
Homospora DeNot ; Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 2: 404. 1849, 
Perithecia globular or oval, sunken or less frequently superfi- 
cial with papilliform to cylindrical beak, membranaceous to coria- 
ceous and sometimes slightly brittle. Asci cylindrical to clavate 
with an internal membrane which is usually perforate at the apex. 
Spores cylindrical, 4 to many-celled, usually dark brown and opaque 
and surrounded by a gelatinous covering. 
Key to the Species 
Spores 4-celled 
Beak always small, papilliform or wanting. 
Paraphyses few or entirely wanting. 
dark brown or black at maturity. 1. S. minima.‏ امت 
Spores yellow at et 2. S. chrysopora.‏ 
Paraphyses abundan‏ 
pores E amitt‏ 
Asc nets apa 3 II u. X 48-60 u. 3. S. intermedia.‏ 
hake indrical : es 5- 5 Uu X 32-35 ۰ 4. S. leporina.‏ 
So. du‏ رو وسر Spores soe to broadly‏ 
DE‏ وا to short‏ کر : Beak prominent‏ 
Spores uniseriate, sma 6. S. pulchella.‏ 
Spores biseriate, large. 7. S. megalospora.‏ 
Beak long cylindrical or enlarged and tubercular.‏ 
Beak tubercular.‏ 
Plant small : spores 5.5-7 u X 32-33 u. | 8. S. tuberculata.‏ 
Plan gg spores 10-12 u X 72-77 ۰ 9. S, Kansensis.‏ 
Beak cylindric‏ 
airy. IO. S. chaetomioides. 
Beak smooth, long and narrow. II. S. Dakotensis. 
Spores more than 4-celled. 
5 1 12, S. Americana. 
: 13. 
Spores 16-celled, united into a cylindrical mass, 14. 
Spores 11-16-celled with a very large cell in upper spore of ascus 
Spores 8-celled 
un 
corynespora. 
fimetaria. 
I5. S. žerculea. 
I. SPORORMIA MINIMA Awd. Hedwigia, 7 : 66. 1868 ; Nuova Gior. 
Bot. Ital. 10: 151. 1878; Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 2: 124. 
1883; N. Am. Pyren. 134. ۸ 18. f. 6-9. 1892; Cohn’s 
Krypt.-Flora, 3°: 291. 1894; Rabenhorst, Krypt.-Flora, 1? : 
181. 1887; Berlese, Icones Fung. A. 28. f. 4. 1894. 
