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branched, smooth, flexuous, septate, brown hairs, 3 mic. thick; paraphyses 
simple or sometimes branched or lobed at the tip, filiform but wide in 
comparison with the asci, old ones shriveling to half their original width 
and entwining about one another, equal to asci or slightly longer, septate; 
asci cylindric, broadly rounded to truncate above, slightly contracted below 
into a short blunt stipe, 50-90x5-9 mic., 8-spored, persistent; spores 1- 
seriate, prominently 2-guttulate when young becoming indistinctly so or 
homogeneous with age, hyaline when young, varying through olivaceous to 
dark-brown and opaque, ellipsoid to subglobose, 5-10x3-7 mic., surrounded 
by a hyaline fugacious envelope. 
Habitat: Paper, dung of cows, goats, and horses. 
Distribution: New Jersey, Ohio, and Europe. 
Illustrations: PI. Ill, f. 12-19; Mem. Torrey Club 11: PI. 3, f. 25-27; 
Sacc. Fungi Ital.pl. 617. 
Type Locality: Italy. 
Distinctive Characters: Small black papillate perithecia and small 
2-guttulate spores. 
Notes: Griffiths & Seaver give 150-180x100-150 mic. as size of the perithecia. 
Plants cultivated in the laboratory. Jan. 12, 1917, on cow dung collected by Bruce Fink and 
Robert Gordon, near Eaton, April 10, 1914; also June 21, 1917, on horse dung collected by the author, 
near Georgetown, Sept. 14, 1914. 
4. Fimetaria fimicola ( Roberge ) Griffiths & Seaver, N. Amer. Flora 
3: 66. 1910. 
Sphaeria fimicola Roberge; Desmaz. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 11: 353. 1849. 
Sordaria fimicola Ces. and De-Not. Comm. Critt. Ital. 1: 226. 1863. 
Mycelium superficial and within the substratum, large hyphae, light- 
brown to dark-brown, small hyphae light colored, superficial mycelium 
arising from large hyphae that grow along the surface of the substratum, 
branched and septate; perithecia scattered, or aggregate into a layer which 
forms a complete covering for the substratum, usually sunken at first 
and erumpent later, or superficial from the first, pyriform with papilliform 
or slightly elongate black beak, 335-525x190-365 mic., light-brown or 
black, opaque, thin, membranous and brittle, with cellular structure 
usually plainly visible, smooth or slightly roughened on the beak with mi¬ 
nute papillae, mycelium covering a large portion of the perithecium; para¬ 
physes simple, ventricose, not numerous, longer than the asci, septate, 
not persistent; asci cylindric, broadly rounded to truncate, perforate at 
the apex and tapering below into a slender stipe, 140-225x15-20 mic., 
8-spored, opening by apical pore, rather persistent; spores obliquely 1-ser- 
iate, varying in color from hyaline through light-yellow, yellow-green, 
olive-green to dark-brown and opaque, ellipsoid, rounded at the ends, but 
more acutely so below, 16-25x11-13 mic., with germ-pore, apical, cir¬ 
cular and situated in the lower more acutely rounded end of the spore, 
the hyaline envelope not surrounding the entire spore but having its edges 
attached around the germ-pore, which it does not inclose on stretching. 
