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: <Eng. Flo.," v. p. 178; Krombh., t. 5, f. 20, 21; Fckl., 

 "Symb. Myco.," 333; Berk., "Out!.," 362; Price, t. 3, 

 f. 17 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 1960; Kickx., "Flo. Flan," 

 i. 501; Seer., " Mycogr," iii. 621 ; Gill, "Champ," p. 25, 

 c. i. ; Pat, p. 29, f. 67. Clavaria ophioglossoides Bull, 

 "Champ," t. 372; Bolt, "Fung," t. 211, f. 1; "Flo. 

 Dan.," t. 1076, . 2 ; Cooke, " Mycogr," fig. 1. 



Exs. Fckl, "F. Rh," 1142; Schm. and Kze, 97; 

 Moug. and Nest, 684; Phil, " Elv. Brit," 55; Roumg, 

 "Stirpes," 262; Ellis, " N. A. Fungi," 980. 



On the ground in grassy places. Autumn. 



Gregarious, 1 to 3 inches high ; club lanceolate, passing 

 gradually into the even stem, blackish ; stem rather 

 slender, crooked, cylindrical, half to two-thirds the entire 

 height of the plant, rather squamulose ; sporidia cylin- 

 drical, rounded at the ends, brown, usually 7-septate, 

 adhering together in a bundle; paraphyses remarkable 

 from the four or five upper cells being larger, constricted 

 at the joints, almost beaded, and brown. 



Name Glaber, smooth. 



Near Halifax (Bolton). Scotland (Klotzsch in " Hook. 

 Herb."). Near Bungay (Mr. Stock). Malvern (Mr. 

 Edwin Lees). North of Ireland (Templeton). Wood- 

 newton, Northamptonshire ; Coed Coch ; Crundale ; 

 Ascot ; Holm Lacy ; and Memmuir (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 

 Twycross (Rev. A Bloxham). Paul's Cray Common 

 (Mr. F. Currey). Castle Rising! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 

 Abergavenny ! (Mr. J. Renney). Whitcliffe, near Lud- 

 low ! Wrekin, Salop ! 



4. Geoglossum viscosum. Pers. 



Glabrous, viscid, black; club cylindrical, confluent 

 with the stem, afterwards slightly thickened, olivaceous- 

 black below ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, linear, 

 rounded at the ends, straight, or slightly curved, 3-septate, 

 brown ; 80 X 95/x ; paraphyses filiform, non-septate, 

 globose apices. 



Geoglossum viscosum Pers, " Comm," p. 59 ; Fries, 

 " Sys. Myco.," i. 439 ; " Epic," i. p. 583 ; Grev., " Sc. Crypt. 



