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plus minus emergentibus nudatisque, ovoideo-sphaeroideis vel sphoe- 

 roideis, sordide atris, ostiolo obtuse conoideo, nigro; ascis pedicella- 

 tis, cylindraceo-subclavatis, 130i;21 ; sporidiis octonis, subdistichis, 

 ellipsoideis, fuscis, opacis, polo inferiori appendicula sporidio duplo 

 longiori, hyalina instructis, sine appendicula 17-26^8-10; para- 

 physibus nullis. 



Hab. in fimo vaccino, leporino, asinino in tota Europa 

 et Amer. bor. — Sec. Fuck. in peritheciis juvenilibus adsunt sper- 

 matia allantoidea, perexigua. 



2. Sordaria natalitia (Speg.) Sacc. Hypocopra natalitia Speg. Fungi ^^^ 

 Arg. Pug. II, n. 58. — Peritheciis densissime gregariis, globoso- 

 lenticularibus, in ostiolo acutiusculo cylindraceo-conico attenuatis, 

 minutis, V3-Y4 mill, matrici insculptis, vel superficialibus, contextu 

 tenui-membranaceo, parenchymatico, fuligineo-atro, basi hyphis ra- 

 dicantibus exilibus vestitis; ascis cylindraceo-clavatis superne ob- 

 tuse rotundatis, quandoque subtruncatis, deorsum in pedicellum lon- 

 giusculum attenuatis, 200-210 i; 12-14, octosporis; sporidiis distichis, 

 primo hyalinis, cylindraceis, continuis, utrinque rotundatis, 45-50 



^ 6-7, granuloso-farctis, dein apice elliptico-capitatis, vertice acu- 

 tiuscule rotundatis, fuligineis, 15-16 ;; 10, jodi ope nucleo obscu- 

 riore hyalino-ocellato ornatis, cauda hyalina recta cylindracea, 

 30-35 ::: 6-61/2, donatis. 



Hab. in trunco putri aqua semmiimmerso Pircunise dioicso 

 secus Rio de la Plata, cerca de la Recoleta, America austr. — 

 Species S. coprophike sat similis, sed sporidiorum magnitudine 

 recedens. 



3. Sordaria minuta Fuck. Symb. myc. App. II, p. 44, Wint. Sord. 840 

 p. 37, t. XI, fig. 21. — Peritheciis sparsis exacte conicis v. elon- 

 gato-ovatis, 400 - 220, antice brevissime setulosis ; ascis cylindra- 

 ceis, substipitatis, Ssporis, 112^14; sporidiis oblique monostichis, 

 elliptico-ovatis, nucleatis, demum atro-umbrino-opacis, vertice glo- 

 bulo oblongo, gelatinoso, hyalino, mox deciduo, basi stipite recto, 

 hyalino, sporidiorum dimidium sequante, 16-22 ^ 10. 



Hab. in fimo equino, vulpino, cuniculorura, raurino, 

 ovino in Germania, Britannia. — Datur forma 4-6-spora [S. te- 

 traspora Wint.). 



4. Sordaria communis (Speg.) Sacc. Hypocopra communis Speg. 

 Pug. 2. p. 20. — Peritheciis spar.sis v. hinc inde 5-8 gregariis, 

 globoso-lenticularibus, glabris, olivacoo-atris, flmo immersis, ostiolo 

 tereti-conoideo, longiusculo, extante ; ascis clavatis, apice truncato- 



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