SPORORMIA 115 
paraphyses abundant, filiform, slightly wider below than above, 
guttulate, septate, slightly longer than the asci and mixed with them. 
Spores in 2 or 3 series, slightly fusiform and widest above the 
middle, 7-celled with the dird from the upper end larger than the 
others, the five middle cells broader than long, the end cells slightly 
ovate and longer than broad, 10-13 م‎ x 54-62 ,م‎ gelatinous en- 
velope prominent. LN 77. f. 77-7 
Distinctive characters: The 7-celled spores. 
Cultivated specimen: On rabbit dung, Gunnison, Colo., Aug. 
1899 (Bartholomew). 
The species appears to be intermediate between S. verans and 
S. heptamera of the European botanists. The spores in the former 
are about 40 and in the latter 75 نر‎ long. This difference is not 
confined to the spores but there is a constant difference in size 
throughout which appears to be intermediate between the two 
species. It appears to me, therefore, better to give this Ameri- 
can form a new name, inasmuch as its measurements appear very 
constant andit cannot very well be included in either of the others. 
13. SPORORMIA CORYNESPORA Niessl, Oest. bot. Zeitschrift, 167. 
1878; Hedwigia, 17: 148. 1878; Berlese Icones Fung. I: 
pl. 37.7. .و‎ 1894; Cohn’s Krypt.-Flora Schlesien, 37: 292. 
1894 ; Rabenhorst, Krypt.-Flora, 17: 186. 1887; Saccardo, 
Syll Fung. 2: 131. 3, 
Perithecia sunken and scattered or aggregated in small loose 
groups and erumpent, becoming free with age, 190-275 y in 
P 
diameter, subglobose to ovate with a short blunt bisik and shin- 
ing papilliform beak, thin, coriaceous, black and opaque. 
sci 8-spored, clavate, broadly rounded above and contracted 
below into a short rather narrow stipe, quite persistent, 18-24 # x 
175 :م‎ paraphyses filiform, septate, a little larger below, 
slightly longer than the asci and mixed with them 
Spores in two or three series, 8-celled, slightly clavate with the 
third cell from the top abruptly larger than the others, end cells 
conical and broadly or acutely rounded, the remainder subglobose, 
9—10.5 4 x 50-56 4, covered with a narrow hyaline gelatinous 
envelope. (PI. 77. f. 8-To. 
Distinctive characters : Spores with 8 cells with the third from 
the upper end larger than the others. 
Dry specimen : On rabbit dung, Rooks Co., Kan., 1895 (Bar- 
tholomew no. 1929.) 
