SPORORMIA 311 
at the ends, 16-18 م‎ x 45-48 م‎ 4-celled, deeply constricted but 
not easily separable ; hyaline covering prominent and swelling 
greatly in water. (77. 76. f. 70-12. 
Distinctive characters : Oval to broadly cylindrical, uniseriate 
spores. 
Dry specimens: On rabbit dung, Decorah, Iowa, July 1899 
(Holway). 
SPORORMIA PULCHELLA Hansen. Naturhist. Forening. Kjoben. 
Vidensk. Middel. for Aarene, 320-321. M. 9. f. 23-25. 1876; 
Sacc. Syll. Fung. 2: 123. 1883; Nuovo Gior. Bot. Ital. 
IO: 145. 1878; Rabenhorst, Krypt.-Flora, 1’: 181. 1887. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, erumpent and more or less super- 
ficial at maturity, globular, with a papilliform to short cylindrical 
black naked curved or straight beak which may be lighter colored 
at the very apex, including siu 180-300 ft x 300-450 رم‎ thin 
membranaceous, black and opaqu 
P -spored, cylindrical, nd rounded at the apex and 
slightly contracted below into a short comparatively wide blunt 
stipe, persistent, 10-13 ۸ x 133-181 4: paraphyses filiform, sep- 
tate, branched, mixed with the asci and about equaling them in 
length. 
Spores obliquely uniseriate, narrowly ellipsoid, acutely rounded 
at the ends, 5-8 ۸ x 23-24 ,م‎ 4-celled, deeply constricted but not 
easily separable, dark brown and وو سی‎ surrounded by a prom- 
inent hyaline covering. (Pl. 75. f. 10-1 
Distinctive character: Uniseriate spores, 
Cultivated specimen: On cow dung, Highmore, S. D., Sept, 
1899 (Carter). 
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7. SPORORMIA MEGALOSPORA Awd. Hedwigia, 7: 68. pl. 7. f. 5. 
1868 ; Berlese, Icones Fung. I: ۸ 29. f. وم ;1894 .و‎ 
Krypt.-Flora, 3°: 292. 1894; Rabenhorst, Krypt.-Flora, 1°: 
183. 1887; Nuovo Gior. Bot. Ital. 10: 151. 1878; Sac- 
cardo, Syll. Fung. 2: 126. 1883. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, but erumpent and more or less 
exposed at maturity, globular with a papilliform or short cylin- 
drical bare black and shining beak, 300-4004 in diameter, 
slightly coriaceous, black and opaque. 
Asci cylindrical, clavate, broadly rounded above and con- 
tracted below into a comparatively broad stout base, persistent, 
35-45 p x 180-2504: paraphyses filiform, septate, sparingly 
branched, abundant, longer than the asci and mixed with them. 
