Chaetomium globosum Kunze 1817

Chaetomium olivaceum Cooke & Ellis, Grevillea 6 : 96. 1878
Perithecia scattered or gregarious, broadly ovoid or ellipsoid, often pointed at the base, 250-300 X 200-250 /^, in fresh condition olivaceous but in dry specimens dark -brown and membranaceous, thickly and evenly clothed with slender, flexuous hairs ; apical hairs somewhat coarser than the others, simple, sparingly septate, minutely scabrous, 3-4 ii thick, often 700 i long, in the fresh condition pale-olivaceous, in dry condition light-brown ; asci oblongclavate, the spore-bearing part 35-40 X 12 ," ; spores yellow-brown, globoseellipsoid >
slightly apiculate at both ends, 9-12 X 8-9 ^.
On various dead plants, moist wood, rye-straw, paper, pasteboard, etc. Type locality : Newfield, New Jersey. Distribution : Maine to Kansas and Texas.