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the asci and not mixed with them, septate, not persistent; asci clavate, 
straight or curved, contracted and rounded above and tapering below into 
a long, narrow, crooked stipe, 275-350x42-65 mic., 8-spored, persistent; 
spores 2-seriate, 4 and 4 or 5 and 3, ranging from hyaline when young through 
olivaceous or yellow-brown to dark-brown and opaque, ellipsoid to oblong, 
rounded at both ends 40-50x19-23 mic., without primary appendages, but 
with secondary appendages forming short, gelatinous, very fugacious, 
hyaline projections covering the entire spore and being longest at the ends 
of the spore but never reaching a length equal to it. 
Habitat: On dung of horses and cows. 
Distribution: Ohio to South Dakota and Mississippi. 
_ _^Illustrations: PI. XII, f. 4-9; Mem. Torrey Club 11: pi. 6, f. 7-9. 
Type Locality: Highmore, South Dakota. 
Distinctive Characters: The tufts of hair on the beaks of the peri- 
thecia and the beautiful, large, ellipsoid spores covered with short 
appendages at maturity. 
Notes: In one case a tuft of hair rising from the base of the beak was 1550 mic. long, becom¬ 
ing a single hair for the last 475 mic. 
Plants cultivated in the laboratory, June 21, 1917, on horse dung collected by the author, near 
Georgetown, Sept. 14, 1914. 
11. Pleurage dakotensis D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 87. 1901. 
Philocopra dakotensis Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 607. 1905. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken or superficial, pyriform with a papilliform 
to cylindric, black, curved or crooked beak, 600-875x300-555 mic., light- 
brown, transparent, thin, membranous, with exposed portions covered by 
tufts of agglutinate, obliquely-septate, light-brown hairs which usually 
disappear with age; rhizoids branched, flexuous, 2.5 mic. in diameter, septate, 
smooth and light-brown; paraphyses simple, slightly ventricose, numerous, 
longer than the asci, but not mixed with them, septate, evanescent^ asci 
clavate, broadly rounded and contracted above, and contracted below into 
a short, crooked, stipitate base, 200-270x30-67 mic., 260-295x55-95 mic. 
expanded, 32-spored, rather persistent; spores in several series, ranging 
from hyaline when young through olivaceous to dark-brown and opaque, 
ellipsoid to slightly ovoid, 18-23x12-15 mic., with a short, cylindric, 
straight, fugacious primary appendage below and with a long, lash-like, 
very fugacious secondary appendage tipping both the primary and the 
apex of the spore. 
Habitat: On dung of cows and rabbits; also on dead stems of 
Salsola tragus L. 
Distribution: New Jersey to Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, and 
Alabama. 
Illustrations: PI. XIII, f. 1-4; Mem. Torrey Club 11: pi. 7, f. 17-19. 
Type Locality: Brookings, South Dakota. 
