THE FIMETARIALES OF OHIO 
97 
Distinctive Characters: 32-spored asci, and agglutinated hairs 
covering the projecting beak and exposed portions of the perithecium. 
Notes: My measurements of perthecia—although made without cover-glass—and of asci were 
greater than those made by Griffiths, but our spore measurements agree. 
Plants cultivated in the laboratory, June 19, 1917, on rabbit dung collected by Wm A. Stratton, 
Sardinia, Dec. 29, 1916; also June 26, 1917, on rabbit dung collected by the author, near Georgetown, 
Dec. 3,1916. 
12. Pleurage curvicolla (Wint.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Plant 3 3 : 505. 1898. 
Sordaria curvicolla Wint. Hedwigia 10: 161. 1871 
Philocopra curvicolla Sacc. Syll. Fung. 1: 250. 1882. 
Mycelium superficial, gray, branched, septate, with hyphae 1-2 mic. 
in diameterj perithecia, scattered or gregarious, sunken, but often 
erumpen^and half superficial at maturity, pyriform with a black, 
projecting, rather stout, cylindric, straight or curved beak, 395- 
655x250-450 mic., light-brown, transparent, thin, membranous, ornamented 
on the lower half of the beak with bunches of simple, nearly straight, 
accuminate, long, septate, smooth, hyaline to light-brown, persistent 
hairs; paraphyses not observed*; asci widely clavate to sac-like, broadly 
rounded above and contracted below into a short stipe, 200-230x70-100 
mic., 128-256-spored, rather persistent; spores in many series, ranging 
from hyaline when young through pale-olivaceous to dark-brown and 
opaque, ovoid to ellipsoid, 11-22x9-14 mic., terminated below by a short 
primary appendage*. 
Habitat: On dung of horses, cows, and rabbits. 
Distribution: New York to Ohio, Montana and Alabama; also 
in Europe. 
Illustrations: PI. XIII, f. 5-12; Bull. Torrey Club 26; pi. 365, 
f. 13-15; Mem. Torrey Club 11: pi. 10, f. 1-6. 
Type Locality: Germany. 
Distinctive Characters: Tufts of hairs on the perithecia, and 
the large number of small spores. 
•Notes: Griffiths and Seaver give “paraphyses tubular to filiform tapering upwards, septate, 
longer than the asci’’; they also state that the apex of the spore and the primary appendage are 
each tipped with a long, lash-like gelatinous, hyaline, very fugacious, secondary appendage. My 
material was too old to observe these, only the primary appendages being present in a few. 
Plants cultivated in the laboratory, 1914, on rabbit dung collected by Bruce Fink, Peebles, Oct- 
24, 1913; also April 4, 1917, on horse dung collected by Charles R. Stevenson, Stout, Jan. 1, 1917; and 
May, 1917 on potato hard agar by transferring the spores ejected upon the lid of the Petri dish contain¬ 
ing the Stout material. 
13. Pleurage collapsa D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 89. 1901. 
Philocopra collapsa Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 607. 1905. 
Perithecia scattered or aggregate, sunken, pyriform to subglobose, 
with a papilliform to short, cylindric, black beak, 450-500x400-450 mic., 
pale-green below at first but soon becoming brown, thin, membranous, 
with the exposed portion, surrounding the base of the beak, covered with 
long, flexuous, septate, brown hairs; paraphyses ventricose, agglutinate, 
longer than the asci, but not much mixed with them, evanescent; asci 
clavate to fusiform contracted and sharply rounded above and contracted 
