240 Sphariaceap, Phaeosporae, Hypocopra. 



HYPOCOPRA Fuck. Symb. myc. p 240 et vix Fr. S. v. Sc. p. 397. 

 (Ffyiii. hi/po, sub, copt'OS, fimus). — Perithecia simplicia (stroma- 

 te (leHciente), conferta sparsave matrice subiramersa v. insidentia 

 subiiKMnbranacea ovato-globosa, atra, glabra v. pilosa, ostiolo pa- 

 pilheCoi-mi. ;\sci cylindracei 4-8-spori; sporidia ovoidea v. ellipso- 

 idea, lusca, ocaudata, circulo hyalino ut pluriraum obvoluta. 



Fimicoloe. 

 A) Octosporae. 



1. Hypocopra fimicola (Rob.) Sacc. Sordaria fimtcola Ces. ei de l>ioi. geg 

 Sch.Mu. St(>r. p. 52. Wint. Sord. p. 17, t. VII, fig. 6. Sphcvria fi- 

 micola Rob. in Dosm. 17 Not. Ann. Sc. nat. 1849, p. 339. —^ Pe- 

 ritheciis gregariis, confertisve, semiimmersis minutis, V5-V4 mill. 

 diara., subglobosis cum ostiolo conoideo crasso brevi saepe obliquo 

 coiifluentibus, membranaceo-coriaceis rugulosis, Incvibus, atris ; ascis 

 cylindricis, stipitatis, 100-150 ^; 14-16 p. sporif. ; apice late rotun- 

 datis 8sporis; sporidiis oblique monostichis, ovoideis, 17-20 i; 10- 

 1?, olivacoo-fuscis, nitidis, nucleo oleoso, circulo hyalino. 



lL'b. iii fimo leporino, ovino, canino, vaccinoque, in 

 Germania, Belgio, Gallia, Britannia, F^ennia, Italia, Amer. austr. 

 — Forma qua? describitur in Mich. I, 226 et in Myc. Fenn. II, 

 p. 50. i^st var. 7nacrospora: sporidiis 30-32^16-18. 



2. Hypocopra humana Fuck. Symb. Myc. p. 241. Sordaria humana m 

 Wint. Sord. p. 21, t. VIII, fig. 9. — Peritheciis confertis, tectis 

 sub crusta rugulosa, globosis, opaco-nigis, '/3 mill. cr. ostiolo emer- 



so, cylindraceo, vel perparum conico, recto, nitido; ascis cylindra- 

 ceis, stipitatis, Ssporis, 130-140 s 15-18; sporidiis monostichis, sub- 

 gIobo.sis, vel globoso-ovatis, 20-24 ^; 16-18, atro-fuscis, strato hya- 

 liiia facile fiuxili obvolutis. 



Uah. in merda humana in Germania, Gallia, Italia, Fennia, 

 Amer. austr. — Conf. Mich. I, p. 223, ubi fusius describitur nec 

 n'>ii st cniiidinphorus. Soc. Karst. est habenda ut var. C. /hneti. 



3. Hypocopra discospora (Auersw.) Fuck. Symb. App. II. p \'6.'Sor- g^i 

 daria discospora Auersw. in Niossl. Beitr. p. 42, t. VI, fig. 44. 

 Wint. Sord. 19, t. VIII, fig. 8. — Perithociis sparsis, minutis, glo- 

 bosis, cum ostiolo conico obtuso brevi crasso setis rigidis nigris 

 instructo confluentibus, membranaceo-coriaceis, rugulosis, subhe- 

 vibus, atris, y^ niill. altis; ascis cylindricis, stipite brevi, apice re- 

 tusotruncatis Ssporis, 80-90^12 p. sporif.; sporidiis oblique mo- 

 nostichis, disciforraibus, seu subrotundo-ellipticis, a latere compres- 



