134 FUNGI. 
ormis, those of Valsa profusa, and some species of Massaria, 
the latter being at first invested with a hyaline coat. Some 
coloured sporidia have hyaline appendages at each extremity, as 
Fic. 71.—Sporidia of Mussaria fedans. Fic. 72.--Sporidium of Melanconis 
x 400. bicornis, Cooke. 
in Melanconis Berkeleti, and an allied species, Melanconis bicornis, 
from the United States, also some dung Spherie, as S. finiseda, 
included under the proposed genus Sordaria.* Hyaline sporidia 
occasionally exhibit a delicate bristle-like appendage at each 
extremity, as in the Valsa thelebola, or with two additional cilia 
at the central constriction, as in Valsa taleola. A peculiar form 
Fic. 73.—Caudate sporidia of Spheria flmiseda. Fic. 74.—Sporidia of Valsa the’ebola, 
of sporidium is present in certain species of Spheria found on 
dung, for which the generic name of Sporormia has been pro- 
* Winter, “Die Deutschen Sordarien” (1873). 
