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wavy, brown, sparingly septate hairs, 600-750x375-450 mic., brown to 
black and opaque, thin, membranous; paraphyses filiform, septate, 
abundant, longer than the asci and mixed with them; asci cylindric, broadly 
rounded above and contracted below into a stout, tapering stipe, 185-215 
x24-27 mic., 8-spored, persistent; spores obliquely 1-seriate, 2-celled, 
ranging from hyaline when young through yellow to dark-brown and 
opaque, ellipsoid, broadly rounded at the ends, with a broad, shallow 
constriction, 27-30x13-16 mic., with a hyaline envelope prominent, 
swelling greatly in water and showing a striation continuous with the 
septum of the spore and with a germ-pore extending from each end of 
the spore over half-way to the septum. 
Habitat: On dung of horses and cows. 
Distribution: New York to Ohio and Alabama. 
Illustrations: PI. XV, f. 8-14; Mem. Torrey Club 11: pi. 14, f. 4-6. 
Type Locality: New York City. 
Distinctive Characters: Long hairy beaks of perithecia and 
ellipsoid spores. 
*Notes: Owing to the small amount of material at hand, the description had to be taken largely 
from that given by David Griffiths, especially all measurements. The author’s measurements which 
were made were as follows: perithecia 685-1135x235 mic. and spores 27.5-30x12.5-13 mic. My 
material agreed with that of Griffiths in that only two or three perithecia were found on the same 
culture. 
Plants cultivated in the laboratory, April 24, 1917, on horse dung collected by Chas. R. Stevenson 
at Stout, Jan. 1, 1917. 
4. Spororima De-Not. Mem. Accad# Torino II. 10: 342. 1849. 
Perithecia sunken or less frequently superficial, globose or ovoid, 
with papilliform to cylindric beak, membranous to coriaceous and some¬ 
times slightly brittle; asci cylindric to clavate with an internal membrane 
which is usually perforate at the apex; spores 4-many-celled, usually 
dark-brown and opaque, fusiform to cylindric, and surrounded by a 
hyaline gelatinous envelope. 
Type species, Sporormia fimetaria De-Not. 
Spores 4-celled. 
Beak always small, papilliform or wanting. 
Paraphyses few or entirely wanting. Spores dark-brown or black at 
maturity. 1. S. minima. 
Paraphyses abundant. Spores narrowly cylindric. 
Asci clavate, spores large. 
Asci cylindric, spores small. 
Beak enlarged and tubercular. Plant and spores small. 
Spores more than 4-celled. 
Spores 16-celled, united into a cylindric mass. 
Spores 10-15-celled with a very large cell in the upper spore of the ascus. 
6. S. herculea. 
2. S. intermedia. 
3. S. leporina. 
4. S. tuberculata. 
5. S>. fimetaria. 
1. Sporormia minima Auersw. Hedwigia 7: 66. 1868. 
Sphaeria multifera Berk. & Rav.; Berk. Grevillea 4: 143. 1876. 
Philocopra midtifera Sacc. Syll. Fung. 1: 251. 1882. 
Mycelium both within substratum and superficial, gray or mouse- 
