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Distinctive Characters: Fasciculated many-celled spores and small, 
sunken perithecia. 
Notes: Plants found on cow dung after being placed in moist Petri dishes. The material was 
collected at Peebles by Bruce Fink, Oct. 28, 1913, and at Stout by Chas. R. Stevenson, Jan. 1, 1917. 
6. Sporormia herculea Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. 135. 1892. 
Mycelium superficial, salmon-colored, branched, septate; perithecia 
scattered, sunken, globose, with a projecting, black, cylindric beak which 
terminates in an enlarged, black, warty, irregularly expanded or even 
forked extremity sometimes 375x135 mic., 600-800x390-660 mic., black, 
opaque, membranous to coriaceous, sometimes inclined to be brittle; 
paraphyses simple, filiform, abundant, longer than the asci and mixed 
with them, septate, persistent; asci clavate or slightly fusiform, broadly 
rounded above and contracted below into a short, blunt stipe, 
315-355x40-65 mic., 8-spored, quite persistent; spores obliquely 2-3-seriate, 
10-15-celled, ranging from hyaline when young through yellow to 
dark-brown, fusiform at first but becoming more or less cylindric at 
maturity, rounded or subacute at the ends, deeply constricted and easily 
separable into individual cells, 125-155x16-20 mic., the second to the fifth 
cell from above in the upper spore of the ascus being much larger than 
any of the others, ordinary cells 12.5-17.5x12-20 mic., large cell 
20x20-25 mic., hyaline envelope very evanescent. 
Habitat: On dung of cows and horses. 
Distribution: Rhode Island to Ohio and Texas. 
Illustrations: PI. XVIII, f. 1-9; Mem. Torrey Club 11: pi. 17, f. 1-3. 
Type Locality: Newfield, New Jersey. 
Distinctive Characters: The peculiar beaks of the perithecia and 
the peculiar upper spore of an ascus. 
Notes: Ellis & Everhart give the following measurements: perithecia 500-750 mic., in diameter, 
asci 250-342x50-60 mic., spores 112-152x14-16 mic; Griffiths & Seaver give: perithecia 440-550 mic. 
in diameter, asci 225-300x45-60 mic., spores 135-150x18-21 mic. 
Plants cultivated in the laboratory, Oct. 16, 1916, on cow dung collected by the author, near 
Georgetown, Sept. 7, 1914. 
GLOSSARY 
Acicula (pi. aciculae), a needle-like or bristle-like spine or prickle. 
Acicular, slender or needle-shaped. 
Acuminate, having a gradually diminishing point. 
Adnate, to grow attached the whole length. 
Agglutinate, glued together. 
Aggregate, collected together. 
Apical, at or belonging to the apex, tip or summit. 
Apiculus, a small apical point. 
Arachnoid, like a cobweb, from an entanglement of fine white hairs. 
Beak, a pointed projection. 
Bristle, a stiff hair. 
Circinate, coiled into a ring. 
Clavate, club-shaped, thickened towards the apex. 
