118 NORTH AMERICAN SORDARIACEAE 
Cultivated specimens: On cow dung, New York City and Ft. 
Lee, N. J., summer and autumn 1899; cow dung, Kingston, R. 
I., Dec. 1899 (Underwood) ; cow and horse dung, Austin, Texas, 
Jan. 1900 (Long).. 
There is, in some respects, quite a difference between the 
northern and southern specimens of this plant, but it appears to be 
a difference produced by variation rather than a distinct character. 
Some of the Texas material had spores as low as ۲10 long, the 
perithecia were often very small, and contained but a half dozen 
asci, while the large cell was usually found nearer the upper end 
of the spore. In the northern specimens the position of the large 
cell lies somewhere between the third and the fifth, but in the 
Texas material it is usually found from the second to the third 
cell from the top of the upper spore. 
VI. SPORORMIELLA E. & E; N. Am. Pyren. 136. 1892 
Perithecia imbedded in a stroma. Asci with a functional inter- 
nal membrane which stretches at maturity. Spores 4-celled and 
surrounded by a hyaline gelatinous envelope. Indistinguishable 
from Sporormia except for the presence of a stroma. A single 
species. 
I. SPORORMIELLA NIGROPURPUREA E. & E., N. Am. Pyren. 136. 
1892; Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 11: 330. 1895; Lindau, Die 
natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, 1': 393. 1897. 
Perithecia scattered or aggregated in large clusters and im- 
bedded in a dark gray stroma which is purplish within, sunken or 
slightly elevated when confluent, subglobose or ovate, thick-walled 
with papilliform black shining and perforate beak about .35 mm. in 
diameter. 
Asci 8-spored, cylindrical-clavate, broadly rounded above and 
gradually contracted below into a short crooked stipe, 10-12 4 x 
90-125 p: paraphyses filiform, abundant, faintly guttulate, faintly 
septate, much longer than the asci and mixed with them. 
Spores 4-celled, cylindrical, deeply constricted, rounded at the 
ends, 20-26 ۸ x که‎ terminal cells subovate, middle ones sub- 
globose ; hyaline envelop narrow and indistinct. UT ا و‎ 
Dry specimens: On cow dung, Newfield, N. J., March 1891 
(Ellis). 
SUMMARY 
I. Seventy-eight species are recognized for the region indi- 
cated in the title of this article. Thirty-two of these are new to 
