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SPORORMIA 113 
The Arizona specimens have rather simpler beaks to the peri- 
thecia than the others, but even here they are conspicuously en- 
larged at the apex. 
Thespecies is smaller throughout than either Sporormia ambigua 
or S. dageniforme to which it is closely related. It can readily be 
distinguished from S. minima by the beak of the perithecium and 
the stipe of the ascus. 
9. Sporormia Kansensis sp. nov. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, erumpent, and partly exposed at 
maturity, globular with a long wide black bare cylindrical or 
funnelform tuberculate beak, 300-450 بر‎ x 600—900 #, firmly at- 
tached to substratum by numerous fine rhizoids : rather thick, 
coriacious, black and opaque 
Asci cylindrical, broadly rounded above and contracted eet 
into a moderately stout stipe, persistent, 26-34 x 240-290 
paraphyses filiform, septate, homogeneous, abundant, یم‎ 
branched, longer than the asci and mixed with them. 
Spores in 2 or 3 series, cylindrical, straight or slightly curved, 
rounded at the ends, very deeply constricted and easily separable, 
4-celled, 10-12 » x 72-77, ranging from hyaline when young 
through yellow to dark brown and opaque ; علد‎ (Heer 
prominent and stretching greatly in water. PL. 1 3 
Distinctive characters: Long cylindrical Parad ES beak of 
perithecium and long comparatively narrow spores. 
Cultivated specimen: On rabbit dung, Rooks Co., Kan., July 
1899 (Bartholomew). 
10. Sporormia chaetomioides sp. nov. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken with a long cylindrical straight or 
curved beak which is densely covered with long fiexuous faintly 
septate fuscous to brown hairs as far as the black shining apex, 
which appears, when viewed from above, as a black perforate speck 
surrounded by the long wavy hairs, 300—400 4 x 600-700 ہم‎ thin 
membranaceous, greenish below w hen young, but finally black and 
opaque. 
de Asci 8-spored, cylindrical-clavate, broadly rounded above and 
contracted below into a long slender stipe about half the length 
of the spore-bearing portion, rather persistent, 13—18 2x 130—180 ہر‎ 
paraphyses abundant, filiform, septate, branching, much longer than 
the asci and mixed with them. 
Spores in two or three series, cylindrical, broadly to acutely 
rounded at the ends, 5-6 م‎ x 26-40, 4-celled, deeply con- 
