127 



tricose. Sporidia 8, uniseriate, elliptical or subglobose, dark brown, 

 with a gelatinous envelope, 15-21 x 10-15 fi. 



On decaying human ordure, in damp woods, Newfield, N. J. 



S. hippica, Sacc. Syll. 900. 



Hypoxylon equinutn, B. & Rav. Grev. IV, p. 93. 



" Perithecia springing from a thin, effused, white mycelium. Osti- 

 ola black, papilliform. Sporidia short-cymbiform, 15 /^ long." 

 On horse dung. So. Carolina (Ravenel). 



S. leucoplaca, (Berk. & Rav.) 



Sphisria leucoplaca, B. & Rav. Grev. IV, p. 143. 

 Syn? 5. 7ninima, Sacc. .& Speg Mich. I, 373, F. Ital. tab. 617. 

 Hypocopra leucoplaca, Sacc. SyU. 887. 

 Kxsicc. Rav. Fungi Car. Kxsicc. IV, 61. 



"Minute, black, seated on a broad, white-floccose spot; asci 

 linear; sporidia uniseriate, elliptical." 



On cow dung. So. Carolina, (Ravenel). 



The specimen in Rav. Car. affoids the following characters. — • 

 Perithecia scattered, erumpent, membranaceous, minute (90-120 n), at 

 first clothed with short, spreading, black hairs, which soon disappear. 

 Ostiolum obtusely conical. Asci cylindrical, rounded at the, apex, 

 p. sp. 40-45x7 y«; paraphyses not seen. Sporidia uniseriate, short- 

 elliptical, becoming opake, 8-10 x 5-6 ji. 



In Ravenel's specimen the manure is not much decayed, of a light 

 color and thickly sprinkled with the minute perithecia, which much 

 resemble those of Sporormia minima. Sordaria minima, S. & S., 

 differs from this only in being glabrous, but it may have been, like 

 this, hairy at first. 



S..flmicola, (Rob.) 



SphcEria fimicola, Rob. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 3. XI, p. 353. 

 Sordaria fimicola, Ces &De Not. Schema, p. 52. 



Hypocopra Jimeii &n6. siercoraria, Fckl. Symb. I, p. 240 & 241. (sec. Winter.) 

 Hypocopra fimicola, Sacc. SyU. 869. 



Sordaria loiuana, EU. & Holw. Journ. Mycol. IV, p. 65. , 



Sordaria fimicola. Winter Pilze p. 166. 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 903, looi, 1802.— Kze. F. Sel. loi.— Rehm. Asc. 137, 300.— Sacc. M. V. 

 1181.— Sydow. M. March. 539.— Rab. F.F. 3254.— Krieg. F. Sax. 275.— Desm. Plantcs 

 Crypt, de Fr. 2061. 



Perithecia mostly densely gregarious, ovate, \ mm. diam. the base 

 sunk in the matrix (without any stroma), the upper half or three-fourths 

 projecting, black, tuberculose-roughened, of coarse cellular structure 

 and membranaceous. Asci cylindrical, 107-114x12-15 n (p. sp.); 

 paraphyses ventricose. Sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, becoming opake. 



