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Massee and Salmon. — Researches on 
more or less covered with short hairs ; asci ventricose or ovate-saccate, 
shortly pedicellate, not narrowed upwards but broadly rounded at the 
apex, about 128-spored, 270-350 fx long, about 120 ^ broad; spores 
ellipsoid, 15-16x9-10^, with a hyaline cylindrical basal appendage, 
slightly shorter than the s ore. 
Had. — On Rabbit’s dung, Kew, England, Feb. 1901. (Distrib. — 
Germany and N. Italy ; on dung of Mouse, Rabbit, and Hare.) 
S. curvicolla is distinguished from S. setosa , Wint., — to which it is 
closely allied, — by its smaller spores, and especially by the shape of 
its ascus, which is broadly rounded at the apex, not narrowed 
upwards. 
A form of the present species, with 150 spores in the ascus, is 
recorded by Griffiths (Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxvi, 437, PI. 365, ff. 13-15 
(1899)) from the United States, growing with Sordaria curvula on 
Salsola kali , var. tragus. 
S. pleiospora, Wint. (Fig. 14). 
S. pleiospora, Wint., in Hedwigia, x, 161 (1871); Wint., Deutsch. 
Sordar., 93, Taf. X, f. 17 (1873) ; Schroet. in Cohn’s Krypt.-Fl. Schles., 
Bd. iii, Halfte 2, 288 (1894). 
Philocopra pleiospora , Sacc. Syll. Fung, i, 249 (1882). 
Podospora pleiospora , Wint., in Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl. Deutschl., Bd. i, 
Abth. 2, 175 (1887). 
Perithecia dark brown or blackish, up to 1 mm. high, scattered, at 
first subimmersed, but becoming finally wholly superficial, basal part 
subglobose narrowed upwards into a thick bluntly conical neck, which 
is nearly glabrous, lower part of perithecium provided with rather 
long scattered soft flexuous greyish-brown septate hairs, cells of 
perithecial wall small, 6-7 \x wide; asci broadly cylindrical or 
ventricose, narrowed towards the apex, about 300 x 60-80 n, k 16-64- 
spored ; spores ovoid, somewhat truncate at one or both ends, 
25-30 X 15-18 /x, at first with an appendage at each end, but at 
maturity losing both appendages. 
Hab. — On dung of Giraffe [Camelopardalis giraffa), Kew, Jan. 1901. 
(Distrib. — Germany, N. Italy, Poland ; on dung of Horse, Cow, and 
Hare.) 
Easily distinguished from S. setosa and S. curvicolla by the fewer 
and larger spores. These three species — pleiospora , *S\ setosa , and 
S. curvicolla — are by some authors placed in a separate genus, Philo- 
copra, founded solely on the polysporous asci. This one character, 
