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4. Sporormia tuberculata D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 112. 1901. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, globose with a tubercular, enlarged, 
black beak, *375-395x300-320 mic., dark-brown to black and opaque, 
thin, membranous, cellular structure being visible; paraphyses branched, 
filiform, 2-3 mic. wide, shriveling to 1 mic., guttulate, numerous, 
equaling the asci and mixed with them, septate; asci clavate, broadly 
rounded above and contracted below into a rather long, narrow, crooked 
stipe, 150-155x15-16 mic., 8-spored, persistent; spores 2-seriate, 4-celled, 
pale-brown, cylindric, rounded at the ends, deeply constricted and easily 
separable, 32-38x6-7.5 mic., with a narrow, hyaline, rather persistent 
envelope, showing striations continuous with the septa of the spore. 
Habitat: On dung of goats and horses. 
Distribution: New Jersey to Ohio and Arizona. 
Illustrations: PI. XVII, f. 4-7; Mem. Torrey Club 11: pi. 15, f. 
13-15. 
Type Locality: Fort Lee, New Jersey. 
Distinctive Character: The enlarged, tuberculate beak of the 
perithecittrc?. 
•Notes: The measurements were based upon only a few specimens. Griffiths gives the following 
measurements: perithecia 375-450x225-275 mic., asci 100-130x11-13 mic. and spores 32-33x5.5-7 mic. 
Plants cultivated in the laboratory, June 16, 1917, on horse dung, collected by Chas. R. Stevenson, 
at Stout, Jan. 1, 1917. 
5. Sporormia fimetaria De-Not. Mem. Accad. Torino II. 10: 342. 1849. 
Sphaeria fimetaria Rab; Klotzsch, Herb. Viv. Myc. 1733. 1853. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken beneath the thin upper crust of the 
substratum through which the upper wall of the perithecium opens on the 
surface, globose, without any visible beak, the ostiolum being simply an 
opening in the wall of the perithecium, 90-145 mic. in diameter, brown, 
opaque, thin, membranous; paraphyses not observed (paraphyses sparingly 
branched, filiform, longer than the asci and mixed with them, septate, 
Griffiths); asci cylindric, broadly rounded above and contracted below into 
a rather broad, stout, stipitate base, 70-80x12-16 mic., 8-spored, persistent; 
spores parallel, firmly united into a cylindric, truncate mass in the center 
of the ascus, 16-celled with the end cells nearly twice the length of the 
others (Ellis & Ev. say 16-20-celled), brown, rod-shaped, 50-54x3.5-4 mic., 
the whole mass of spores surrounded by a very narrow hyaline envelope 
which does not adhere to the individual spores when isolated. 
Habitat: On dung of cows and sheep. 
Distribution: Vermont to Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, and Mississippi; 
also in Europe. 
Illustrations: PI. XVII, f. 8-11; A. N. Berk Ic. Fung 1: pi. 37, f. 4. 
1894; Mem. Torrey Club 11: pi. 17, f. 4-7. 
Type Locality: Europe. 
