Fimetaria philocoproides

Fimetaria philocoproides (D. GrifE.) Griffiths & Seaver
Sordaria philocoproides D. Griff. Mem. Torrey Club 11 : 54. 1901. Philocopra GHffithsti S^cq . Syll. Fung. 17 : 607. 1905.
Perithecia scattered, sunken, but becoming more or less superficial with age, subglobose, with small papilliform or indistinct beak, 300-400 /i in diameter, miembranaceous, black and opaque, covered on all exposed portions with short, stiff, dark-brown to black, pointed, continuous hairs ; asci 32-spored, cylindric to clavate, broadly rounded and simply perforate above, and contracted below into a short, blunt stipe, 13-20 X 90-110^ ; paraphyses filifom>, septate, a little longer than the asci ; spores in 2-4 series, slightly flattened, broadly elliptic to subcircular in one view and narrowly elliptic in the other, broadly rounded at the ends, 5.5-8 X 8^ ; hyaline envelope rather indistinct and very narrow.
On rabbit dung.
Type locality : Fort I^ee, New Jersey. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.