THE FIMETARIALES OF OHIO 
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Habitat: Quail dung and on paper. 
Distribution: Known only from type locality below. 
Illustration: PI. Ill, f. 1-6. 
Type Locality: Georgetown, Ohio. 
Distinctive Characters: 4-spored asci and hyaline apiculus at the 
lower end of each spore. 
Note: Plants grown in the laboratory. May 25, 1917, on quail dung, (also spreading over paper 
in the Petri dish) collected by the author, near Georgetown, Dec. 28, 1916. 
2. Fimetaria humana ( Fuckel ) Griffiths & Seaver, N. Amer. Flora 
3: 67. 1910. 
Sphaeria humana Fuckel, Fungi Rhen. No. 1801. 1866. 
Hypocopra humana Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 241. 1869. 
Perithecia scattered or aggregate in solid clusters, sunken or some¬ 
times completely exposed at maturity, pyriform with a papilliform to 
cylindric beak, 365-450x230-310 mic., dark-brown to black, thin, 
membranous; paraphyses simple, ventricose, longer than the asci and not 
much mixed with them, septate, evanescent; asci cylindric, broadly rounded 
to truncate above and tapering below into a short, blunt stipe, (160- 
200? mic.,^17-19 mic. Griffiths), 8-spored, somewhat persistent; spores 
obliquely 1-seriate, ranging from hyaline when young through olivaceous 
to dark-brown and opaque, obovoid, broadly rounded above and acutely 
so below, 18-23x12-17 mic., with a hyaline envelope covering the entire 
spore except the circular germ-pore at the lower end of the spore. 
Habitat: On human dung, and on dung of dogs, cows, goats, pigs, 
and hogs. 
Distribution: New York to Ohio, South Dakota, and Louisiana; also 
in Europe. 
Illustrations: PI. Ill, f. 7-11; Mem. Torrey Club 11: pi. 3, f. 16-18; 
pi. 4, f. 14-16. 
Type Locality: Europe. 
Distinctive Characters: Dark smooth pyriform perithecia and 
obovoid spores. 
Note: Plants cultivated in the laboratory, March 14, 1917, on hog dung collected by Chas. R. 
Stevenson, at Stout, Jan. 1, 1917. 
3. Fimetaria minima ( Sacc . & Speg.) Griffiths & Seaver, N. Amer. Flora 
3: 66. 1910. 
Sordaria minima Sacc. & Speg.; Sacc. Michelia 1: 373. 1878. 
Hypocopra minima Sacc. Syll. Fung. 1: 244. 1882. 
Perithecia scattered or aggregate in clusters, superficial or more often 
with sunken base, pyriform to conic or globose with a papilliform to blunt 
and truncate beak, 145-290x145-225 mic., dark-brown to black, thin, 
membranous, with cellular structure usually invisible, covered on exposed 
portions with minute papillae or with aciculae and on the base with 
