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9. Pleurage longicaudata D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 81. 1901. 
Sordaria longicaudata Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 601. 1905. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken, but becoming half-exposed in time, 
globose to pyriform with a short cylindric, black, bare beak, 
640-960x395-480 mic., slightly green and transparent below when 
young, but finally becoming black and opaque, thin, membranous; 
paraphyses simple, tubular-ventricose, irregular, tapering upward, rather 
numerous, slightly longer than the asci, septate, soon shriveling and 
disappearing with age; asci clavate, straight or curved, contracted and 
rounded above, and tapering below into a long, narrow stipe, 
365-435x45-85 mic. expanded, or about 250-300x38-45 mic. contracted, 
usually 8-spored, sometimes 4-spored, evanescent; spores 2-seriate when 8 
or 1-seriate when 4, ranging from hyaline when young through olivaceous 
or pale-brown to dark brown and opaque, ellipsoid, rounded at the ends, but 
usually more acutely so above, 27.5-46x15-30 mic., with pestle-shaped or 
cylindric primary appendages, usually equalling the spore in length and 
with secondary appendages attached to the tip of the primary and covering 
the entire spore, being shortest around the equator and increasing in length 
toward the ends where they may appear to become united into a fugacious? 
hyaline, gelatinous, striate-frayed filament, but usually at the upper end 
there are 4 or more separate appendages much longer than the lateral 
ones. 
Habitat: On cow dung. 
Distribution: Ohio to Kansas, Texas, and Alabama. 
Illustrations: PI. XI, f. 7-9 and pi. XII, f. 1-3; Mem. Torrey Club 
11: pi. 8, f. 9-11. 
Type Locality: Rooks County, Kansas. 
Distinctive Character: The spore appendages. 
Notes: There seems to be considerable variance in the size and shape of the spores. A few 
spores were found which were almost globose in shape. The author was unable to obtain spores 
outside of the asci which had the apical appendages in perfect condition These were observed 
largely in the asci. It was thought that the striations were due to the crushing together of the 
secondary appendages into a single appendage apparently. 
Plants cultivated in the laboratory, June 23, 1917, on cow dung collected by Bruce Fink and 
Robert Gordon, at Eaton, April 10, 1914. 
10. Pleurage multicaudata D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11: 85. 1901. 
Sordaria multicaudata Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 603. 1905. 
Perithecia scattered, sunken with only the beak projecting, or super¬ 
ficial, pyriform to globular with a papilliform to cylindric, black, straight 
or curved beak 670-875x465-730 mic., dark-brown or black and opaque, 
slightly coriaceous, with the beak covered on all sides, or if curved only 
on the convex side, with bunches of straight, dark-brown, sparingly 
septate hairs of various lengths, reaching 875 mic., and with the lower 
portion uniformly clothed with long, flexuous, branched, brown, septate, 
rhizoid-like hairs; paraphyses simple, wide, tubular-ventricose, equaling 
