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Distinctive Character: The spore appendages. 
NoteSi Measurement for asci was taken from a slightly immature one since no mature forms 
were found in the material, they being very evanescent. Saccardo gives 208-300x70-120 mic. for size 
of asci; Griffiths, 250-300x60-110 mic. 
Plants cultivated in the laboratory, April 26, 1917, on horse dung collected by Chas. R. Stevenson, 
at Stout, Adams Co., Jan. 1, 1917. A culture growth on potato hard agar was obtained from these 
plants. 
3. Delitschia Auersw. Hedwigia 5: 49. 1866. 
Perithecia superficial or sunken, dark-brown to black and opaque, 
thin and membranous to thick and coriaceous, hairy or smooth; asci 8 or 
16-spored with an internal membrane which generally ruptures on a 
plainly marked constriction just below the apex; spores 2-celled, 
dark-brown and opaque, usually with a gelatinous envelope. 
Type species, Delitschia didyma Auersw. 
Asci 8-spored. 
Spores obliquely septate, 2 seriate. 1. D. leporina. 
Spores transversely septate, small, with hyaline envelope. 
Beak long-cylindric and hairy. 2. D. vulgaris. 
1. Delitschia Leporina.£>, Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 101, 102. 
1901. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, pyriform to short-cylindric or conic, 
with a broad, truncate, projecting, rough or warty beak which is 
uniformly covered with long, flexuous, delicate, brown, septate hairs, 
625-700x350-555 mic., dark-brown to black and opaque, thin, membranous; 
paraphyses simple or branched, filiform, numerous, longer than the asci 
and mixed with them, septate, persistent; asci clavate, broadly rounded 
above and contracted below into a short, blunt stipe, 255-325x30-40 mic., 
8-spored, persistent; spores 2-seriate, 2-celled with a deep, rather broad 
constriction, ranging from hyaline when young through yellow to dark- 
brown and opaque, rather narrowly ellipsoid, acutely rounded at the ends, 
47.5-65x15-19 mic., with a linear germ-pore along wall of each cell and 
with a hyaline, rather persistent envelope which expands greatly in water 
and is evidently septate and broadly constricted similar to the spore. 
Habitat: On rabbit dung. 
Distribution: New Jersey and Ohio. 
Illustrations: PI. XV, f. 1-7; Mem. Torrey Club ID pi. 13, f. 14-16. 
Type Locality: Fort Lee, New Jersey. 
Distinctive Characters: 2-seriate, obliquely septate and deeply 
constricted spores. 
Notes: Some spores were found measuring as much as 40-72x15-25 mic. Griffiths gives size of 
perithecia at 600-750x500 mic., asci 240-295x30-34 mic., and spores 40-65x16-20 mic. 
Plants cultivated in the laboratory. May 4, 1917, on rabbit dung collected by the author at 
Oxford, Oct. 22, 1914. 
2. Delitschia vulgaris D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 104. 1901. 
^Perithecia scattered, sunken, subglobose to pyriform, with a long, 
cylindric, curved or twisted beak which is densely covered with short, 
