108 NORTH AMERICAN SORDARIACEAE 
The reduction to synonymy of Sphaeria multifera B. & Rav. 
may deserve a word of explanation, since it seems almost incred- 
ible that a species of Sforormia should be mistaken by anyone 
for a species of Pleurage, as has been done repeatedly in our liter- 
ature. That this mistake was made, however, is the opinion of two 
besides myself. Mr. Ernest Salmon sent me very careful drawings 
of the original of Sphaeria multifera B. & Rav., collected by Dr. 
Michener in Pennsylvania. Later he has had the kindness to send 
me a fragment of the type together with the additional information 
that M. C. Cooke has at some time written opposite no. 913 
in the copy of Sacc. Syll. Fung. in the Kew herbarium: “ (Phulo- 
copra multifera) = Sporormia minima." The portion of the type 
at hand certainly contains nothing but Sporormia minima. The 
original description was doubtless written upon hasty examination 
of material in which the individual cells of the spores had sepa- 
rated. 
2. Sporormia chrysospora sp. nov. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, or aggregated in small clusters 
and irrumpent, becoming more or less free at maturity, globular 
witha short black bare papilliform beak, or the beak may be entirely 
absent when the ostiolum is simple, perforate, 225—300 م‎ in diam- 
eter, thin membranaceous or often inclined to be brittle, black 
and opaque. 
Asci 8-spored, cylindrical-clavate, broadly rounded above and 
contracted below into a short blunt stipe persistent, 10-12 م‎ X 
65-95 2: paraphyses filiform, septate, scanty, mixed with the 
asci and about equal to them in length. 
Spores biseriate, narrowly ellipsoid, slightly wider above than 
below, rounded at the ends, 5-7 u x 21-24 رم‎ 4-celled with shal- 
low constrictions, not easily separable, light yellow when mature ; 
hyaline covering narrow and often indistinct. (Pl. 15. f. 4-6.) 
Distinctive character : Yellow spores. 
Dry specimen : On rabbit dung, Decorah, Iowa, July 1899 
( Holway ). 
3. SPORORMIA INTERMEDIA Awd. Hedwigia, 7: 67. pl. r. f. 4. 
1868 ; Berlese, Icones Fung. 1: A. 29. 7 2. 1894; Raben- 
horst, Krypt.-Flora, 17: 182. 1887; N. Am. Pyren. 135. 
1892 ; Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 2: 126. 1883 ; Cohn's Krypt.- 
Flora, 3°: 292. 1894 : Nuova Gior. Bot. Ital. 10 : 149. 1878. 
