THE FIMETARIALES OF OHIO 
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colored in mass, becoming brown, branched, septate; perithecia scattered, 
sunken, with the small papilliform beak projecting to the surface, later 
more or less erumpent with the beak disappearing almost entirely, leaving 
the perithecium simply perforate, globose to ellipsoid, 90-220x90-160 mic., 
dark-brown, opaque, thin, membranous; paraphyses simple, filiform, few or 
absent, about equal to the asci, septate, persistent; asci cylindric-clavate, 
broadly rounded above and contracted below into a short or almost sessile 
base, 65-110x13-18 mic., 8-spored, opening by a cap-like lid, rather 
persistent; spores in two or three series, 4-celled, ranging from hyaline 
when young through yellow to dark-brown and opaque, cylindric, straight 
or curved, rounded at the ends, deeply constricted and easily separable, 
especially at the middle, 26-34x5-6 mic., with hyaline envelope easily 
visible in water and septate corresponding with the septation of the spore, 
persistent. 
Habitat: On the dung of goats, horses, cows, sheep, rabbits, dogs, 
prairie dogs, and burros. 
Distribution: Vermont to Ohio, Oregon, Arizona, and Louisiana; 
also in Europe. 
Illustrations: PL XVI, f. 1-5; A. Berl. Ic. Fung. 1: pi. 28, f. 4; Ellis 
& Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. pi. 18, f. 6-9; Mem. Torrey Club 11: pi. 15, f. 16-18. 
Type Locality: Europe. 
Distinctive Characters: Small size of perithecia and few 
paraphyses. 
Note: Plants collected by the author on cow dung, at Oxford, Oct. 1, 1913, and 5 miles south of 
Oxford, Oct. 14, 1916; also grown in laboratory, June 13, 1917, on potato hard agar from specimens on 
rabbit dung, collected by the author, at Oxford, Oct. 22, 1914. 
2. Sporormia intermedia Auersw. Hedwigia 7: 67. 1868. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken but becoming superficial sometimes, 
pyriform, 385-875x205-480 mic., dark-brown to black and opaque, 
coriaceous or often slightly brittle, covered even to the tip of the beak 
with simple, fiexuous or bristle-like, septate, smooth, pale-brown hairs, 
the lower serving as rhizoids and being branched, or often with age the 
hairs disappear leaving only papillate projections as evidence of their 
presence; paraphyses sparingly branched, filiform, numerous, longer 
than the asci and mixed with them, septate, rather persistent; asci 
clavate-cylindric, broadly rounded above and contracted below into a 
short, blunt, usually curved base, 125-230x22-30 mic., 8-spored, opening 
by a thimble-like rupture when the perforate membrane becomes plainly 
visible, rather persistent; spores in 2-3 series, overlapping, 4-celled, 
ranging from hyaline when young through pale, olivaceous-yellow, 
pale-brown to dark-brown and opaque, cylindric, straight or slightly 
curved, broadly rounded at the ends and usually deeply constricted. 
