Melanospora townei Griffiths 1899

Melanospora townei D. Griff. Bull. Torrey Club 26 : 434. 1899
Perithecia superficial, scattered, thin, membranaceous, transparent, globose, covered uniformly with long, straight or slightly wavy, irregularly outlined hairs, and surmounted by a cylindric beak which terminates in a loose aggregation of straight or slightly wavy hairs of unequal length, white turning to light transparent umber and finally black, 225300// in diameter ; beak about equal in length to the diameter of the perithecium and 60 // in diameter ; asci very evanescent, broadly clavate to ovoid, short-stipitate, 30-40 X 60-75 //, 8-spored; spores crowded, olivaceous, becoming dark and opaque, ellipsoid, 15-17/^X2025 fJ-j with a hyaline pore in the flat, truncate ends.
On decaying Russian thistle {Salsola Tragiis L.)Type locality : Aberdeen, South Dakota. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.