BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Coed Coch, Aberystwith, North Wales ; Fern, N.B. 

 (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Pastures near Ludlow ! Moccas 

 Park, Herefordshire ! Bristol (Mr. C. E. Broome). Holm 

 Lacy, Herefordshire (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



GENUS IX. GEOGLOSSUM. Pers. 



Receptacle clavate, cyclindrical or compressed, black, 

 produced downwards into a distinct stem ; hymenium 

 concrete with and covering the incrassated upper por- 

 tion ; asci cyclindrical or clavate ; sporidia 8, coloured 

 or hyaline. (Plate II. fig. 9.) 



Name yf/, the earth, -yXwo-o-a, a tongue ; earth-tongue. 



ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 



A. Sporidia brown 



B. Sporidia hyaline 



species 1-5 

 6-7 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Hymenium hairy 

 Hymenium glabrous 

 (Sporidia brown, 7-septate 

 1. < Sporidia brown, 3-septato 



| Sporidia hyaline . . 

 2 JParaphyses linear 

 " (Paraphyses moniliform 

 o ( Paraphyses pyriform 

 " \Paraphyses globose 

 . J Flesh tremellose 

 ' (Flesh not tremellose 



Jiirsutum. 



1 



2 



3 



4 



difforme. 



glabrum. 



glutinosum. 



viscosum. 



tremellosnm. 



microsporum. 



A. SPORIDIA BROWN. 



1. Geoglossum hirsutum. Pers. 



Hirsute, black ; club often elongated, compressed, or 

 nearly round, capitate, plicate ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, fasciculate, linear, slightly curved, 15-septate, 

 brown, 150 x 6/x ; paraphyses septate, slightly enlarged 

 at the curved or circinate apices. (Plate II. fig. 9.) 



Geoglossum hirsutum Pers., " Comm.," p. 37 ; " Syn. 

 Fung./' p. 608 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," i. 488 ; Weinm., 

 "Hym.," 496; Nees, " Sys.," t. 17, f. 157; Purt, "Midi. 

 Flo./' vols. ii. and iii. No. 1059; Grev., "Sc. Crypt. Flo.," 



