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below into a short, blunt stipe, *210-225x30-50 mic., 64-spored, evanescent; 
spores in several series, ranging from hyaline when young through 
olivaceous to dark-brown and opaque, ellipsoid and broadly rounded at the 
ends, 15-21x10-14 mic., with a primary appendage that is very long and 
slightly clavate when young, but at maturity is very much shriveled and 
indistinguishable from the short, blunt secondary appendages which 
terminate it and the apex of the spore. 
Habitat: On rabbit dung. 
Distribution: New York to Ohio and Alabama. 
Illustrations: PI. XIV, f. 1-4; Mem. Torrey Club 11: pi. 10, f. 
14-18. 
Type Locality: New York City. 
Distinctive Characters: Hairy perithecia, 64-spored asci and 
character of primary appendages. 
*Note: Measurements of asci weremade from old material and thus not expanded but contracted. 
Plants cultivated in the laboratory, Dec. 8, 1916, on rabbit dung collected by the author, near 
Georgetown, Sept 14, 1914. 
14. Pleurage pleiospora ( Winl.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Plant. 3 ’: 504. 
1898. 
Sordaria pleiospora Wint. Hedwigia 10: 161. 1871. 
Philocopra pleiospora Sacc. Syll. Fung. 1: 249. 1882. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken but becoming more or less free with age, 
pyriform with a papilliform to somewhat elongate, cylindric, black, bare, 
usually curved beak, 500-700x375-525 mic., dark-brown, somewhat 
transparent when young, thin, membranous, the whole surface of the 
perithecium, except the tip of the beak, and of the substratum covered 
with long, flexuous, septate, smooth, pale-brown hairs; paraphyses simple, 
rather stout, ventricose, longer than the asci, septate, evanescent; asci 
clavate to fusiform, contracted and narrowly rounded above and 
contracted below into a short, narrow, usually crooked, stipitate base, 
310x65 mic., 64-spored, but at times appear to be less, evanescent; spores 
in several series, ranging from hyaline when young through olivaceous to 
dark-brown and opaque, ellipsoid, rounded at both ends but usually more 
broadly so below, 27.5-40x15-20 mic., with a clavate to cylindric 
primary appendage, equal to or longer than the spore, the base surrounded 
with 2-several hyaline, gelatinous secondary appendages varying in form 
and size, the apex of the spore being crowned by a tuft of very fine 
filaments closely united into a short, blunt, straight or curved appendage. 
Habitat: On dung of horses and cows. 
Distribution: New York to Ohio, Mississippi and Alabama; also 
in Europe. 
Illustrations: PI. XIV, f. 5-8; Mem. Torrey Club 11: pi. 10, f. 7-10. 
Type Locality: Europe. 
