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Habitat: Dung of horses, cows, goats, rabbits, sheep, and deer; also 
on old paper. 
Distribution: Vermont to Ohio and Oregon, southward to Alabama 
and Arizona; also in Europe. 
Illustrations: PI. IV, f. 1-6; pi. V, f. 1-3; Mem. Torrey Club 11: pi. 3, 
f. 19-21; pi. 4, f. 8-10. 
Type Locality: France. 
Distinctive Characters: Dark, pyriform, smooth perithecia and 
ellipsoid spores. 
Note: Plants collected by the author on an old broom, at Oxford, Nov 11, 1916; also cultivated 
in the laboratory Feb. 24, 1917, on horse and rabbit dung collected by Chas. P. Fox at Mt. Peace, near 
Akron. Oct. 5, 1914; Feb. 27, 1917, on cow dung collected by Fred Brater, Sept. 28, 1914; March 5, 1917, 
on potato hard agar, specimen maturing in 9 days. Several cultures were grown but only one was 
timed. 
5. Fimetaria pilosa sp. nov. 
Perithecia scattered or gregarious, superficial, globose to pyriform 
with a papilliform, black, hairy beak, 175-320x145-250 mic., dark-brown 
to black and opaque, thin, membranous, with exposed surface covered by 
light-brown, septate hairs or bristles; paraphyses simple, filiform, numerous, 
equaling the asci and mixed with them; asci cylindric, rounded above and 
contracted below into a short, blunt stipe, 70-85x7-10 mic., 8-spored; 
spores 1-seriate, brown, ellipsoid, 10-12x6-7 mic., surrounded by a narrow, 
hyaline, evanescent envelope. 
Habitat: On rabbit dung. 
Distribution: Ohio. 
Illustration: PI. IV, f. 7, 8. 
Type Locality: Buckeye Lake, Ohio. 
Distinctive Characters: Hairy perithecia and size of spores. 
Note: Plants cultivated in laboratory, June 20, 1917, on rabbit dung collected by W. G. Stover, 
Buckeye Lake, Sept. 27, 1914. 
6. Fimetaria discospora (Auersw.) Griffiths & Seaver. N. Amer. 
Flora 3: 68. 1910. 
Sordaria discospora Auersw.; Niessl, Verh. Nat. Ver. Brunn. 10-: 192. 1872. 
Hypocopra discospora Fuckel, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Nat. 27-28: 43. 1873. 
Perithecia scattered, superficial or sunken, subglobose to pyriform 
with a truncate, conical beak, 250-425x190-290 mic., dark-brown to 
black and opaque, thin, membranous to coriaceous, having exposed por¬ 
tions covered with short, erect, hyaline to dark-brown or black, non-sep- 
tate hairs; paraphyses simple, filiform, not numerous, usually longer than 
the asci, 3 mic. wide, septate, quite persistent; asci cylindric, broadly 
rounded to truncate and perforate above, and contracted below into a short, 
blunt stipe, 90-130x8-10 mic., 8-spored, persistent; spores usually 
obliquely 1-seriate in part, simple, varying from hyaline when young 
through olivaceous to brown, flattened, subcircular to broadly elliptic in 
one view, and narrowly elliptic in the other, 10-15x7-9 mic. side view, 
