Yeah and looking in the right location..  I happen to be in an ergot dessert.
You ought to get a culture started! Can't be that hard, yeah? Mutated Paspali could even make spores perhaps.. well at least I think - so than you've really got something there...

You found this? Impressive! Nice find.

Yeah dallisgrass/knotgrass is pretty damn common, heres some pictures of the scelortia, beware of trying to culture the honeydew form, often is cohabitated by another fungus... this will suppress scelortia development so if you see the round scelortia your safe.  Heres some pictures:

I have not personally, just found a lot of armed rednecks roaming the woods off season.  You should wait for a rainy week or two then in a few days go look on roadsides, sides of drainage ditches and pastures.  One fact gives me hope: it takes somewhere around 100g of scelortia for a large animal to get a serious case of the paspalum staggers, I would be happy with 5g. 

Crackers with guns.  That sucks, you could always try and order a few kgs of organic paspalum type seeds.  If they are cheap you might be able to find some scelortia in there.  I know that one place that sold ergot scelortia sold paspali fruit on some non-Paspalum type grass seed years ago.

black things are part of the plant.  I'd like to know peoples experiences with finding scelortia in bags of seed.  Dry scelortias can be revived directly on agar I think (after cleaning and a core sample).  I'm pretty sure its hard for a good production strain to form asexual spores or to store it on agar for more then a year.  In this case infecting a small patch of grass and collecting the scelortia for storage would the correct way to preserve your hard fought for genetics, or am I mistaken?  Even if not it would be a good way to revive a culture that has been transferred to death.