134 



H. flmeti, (Pers.) 



SphiEria fimeti, Pers. Syn. p. 64. 

 Hypocopra fimeti , Fr. 1. c. 

 Sordariajimeti, Winter. Deutsch. Sord. p. 14. 

 Coprotepajinieti, Sacc. Syll. 903. 



Perithecia crowded oi- confluent, globose or ovate, 300-350 fj. 

 broad, ending- above in a thick, conical, mostly oblique neck, and about 

 half sunk in the thin, crustaceous, effused, black, slightly wrinkled, bare 

 stroma. Asci cylindrical, short-stipitate, 140-150x17 fi (p. sp.), 8- 

 spored, with filiform paraphyses. Sporidia elliptic-oblong, dark brown, 

 18-20 X 12 n, with a gelatinous envelope. 



On horse dung. New York (Peck). 



We have never met with this species, and give it on the author- 

 ity quoted. Diagnosis fi'om Winter. 



H. equorum, (Fckl.) (Plate 17) 



Hypoxyton equorum^ Fckl. F. Rh. 1058. 

 Coprolepa equorum, Fckl. Syiiib. ^. 240. 



Sordaria equorum, Winter Deutsch. Sordar. p. 13. , 



Hypocopya equorum. Winter Die Pilze II, p. 178. 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 1058.— Cke. F. Brit. 2d Ser. 241 and 242.— Rehm Asc. 992. 



Perithecia scattered, about \ mm. diam., globose, pale brown, 

 their short, black, shining, papillose ostiola erumpent through the thin, 

 crustose, black, villose-tomentose, broadly effused stroma. Asci cylin- 

 drical, short-stipitate, thickened at the apex, 8-spored, 175-200x 

 15-18 jx, shorter than the simple, filiform, septate paraphyses. Spo- 

 ridia obliquely uniseriate, elliptical, or (elongated-elliptical, subinequi- 

 lateral dark, 19-21 x 9-10 fx. 



On horse dung in open woods, Newfield, N. J. 



Differs from H. finitti in its villose stroma, larger, buried ])eri- 

 thecia and shorter ostiola. 



SPORORMIA, De Not. 



Micr. Ital. decas V, No. 6, (1849). 



Perithcei;! innate-emergent, membranaceous, glabrous or sub- 

 glabrous, black, with papilliform ostiolum. Asci elongated, 8-spored. 

 Sporidia 4-20-celled, the cells soon separating, dark colored, mostly 

 fimicolous. 



Sp. mjnima, Awd. Hedwigia VIII, p. 66. (Plate 18) 



Exsicc. Rab. F. E. 1.339.— Rehm Asc. 34.— Thum. M. U. 2167.— Ell. N. A. F. 198. 



Perithecia scattered, about half sunk in the matrix, 100-114 /.< 

 diam., membranaceous, black, bare, with a very small, papilliform 



