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47.5-65x9-15 mic!, having a hyaline envelope surrounding the entire 
spore, swelling greatly in water and showing striatious continous with the 
septa of the spore. 
Habitat: On dung of rabbits, horses, cows, sheep, prairie dogs, and 
dogs. 
Distribution: Vermont to Ohio, Oregon, California, and Mississippi; 
also in Europe. 
Illustrations: PI. XVI, f, 6-13; Hedwigia 7: pi. 1, f. 4; A. Berl. 
Ic. Fung. 1: pi. 29, f. 2: Mem. Torrey Club LI: pi. 15, f. 19-21. 
Type Locality: Europe. 
Distinctive Characters: Broad large spores and usually hairy 
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perithecia. 
Notes: The size of the perithecia and of the spores were found to be larger than those 
previously reported for this species and the perithecia were covered with hairs except in older 
specimens, yet the author does not deem it wise to call this a new species since all other 
characteristics agree so well. 
Plants cultivated in the laboratory, April 3,1917, on horse dung collected by Chas. R. Stevenson, 
at Stout, Jan. 1, 1917. 
3. Sporormia leporina Niessl, Oesterr. Bot. Zeits. 28: A 96. 1878. 
^Perithecia sunken and scattered or aggregate in small, loose clusters 
which become erumpent and form small elevations of the material 
of the substratum, which, on disintegrating, leaves the perithecia 
exposed, subglobose to ovoid, with a papilliform or conic beak, 
200-225x150-180 mic., black and shining above, thin, membranous or 
often inclined to be brittle; paraphyses sparingly branched, filiform, 
constricted especially below, abundant, longer than the asci and mixed with 
them, septate; asci cylindric, broadly rounded above and contracted below 
into a short, blunt stipe, 105-135x12-16 mic., 8-spored; spores obliquely 
2-seriate, 4 celled, ranging from hyaline when young through yellow to 
dark-brown and opaque, cylindric, deeply constricted, easily separable, 
rounded at the ends, 32-35x5-6 mic., with a hyaline envelope becoming 
prominent in water and evidently striate corresponding with the septation 
of the spores. 
Habitat: On rabbit dung; also cultivated on the dung of horses and 
cows. 
Distribution: New York, New Jersey, Ohio, and- Ontario; also in 
Europe. 
Illustrations: PI. XVII, f. 1-3; A. Berl. Ic. Fung. 7: pi. 28, f. 3; 
Mem. Torrey Club 77: pi. 15, f. 22-24. 
Type Locality: Europe. 
Distinctive Characters: Small beak, cylindric asci, and cylindric 
comparatively short spores. 
♦Notes: Description is taken largely from that given by Griffiths, especially the measurements. 
The author found the following measurements for the small amount of material obtainable; perithec a 
250-x220 mic.. asci 125x13 mic., spores 30-37.5x5-6 mic. 
Plants cultivated in the laboratory, April 5, 1917, on a straw in horse manure collected by Chas R. 
Stevenson, at Stout. Jan. 1, 1917. 
