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apices of paraphyses nearly pear-shape, brown, and not 

 septate. 



Name — Gluten, glue = glutinous. 



Bristol, Coed Coch (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Hanham 

 Woods, near Bristol (Mr. C. E. Broome). Household 

 Heath and South Wootton Heath, Norfolk ! (Mr. C. B. 

 Plowright). Hanham (Mr. Cedric Bucknall). 



B. SPORIDIA HYALINE. 



6. Geoglossum microspovum. Cooke and Peck. 



Glabrous, somewhat viscid ; club obtuse, distinct ; 

 stem slightly squamulose ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 2-seriate, crowded, cylindrical, a little curved, hyaline, 

 faintly 7-septate, 50 X 10 fi ; paraphyses filiform, straight, 

 not enlarged at the apices„ 



Geoglossummicrosporum — Cooke and Peck," Twenty- 

 fifth Report New York Mus. Nat. Hist."; Cooke, 

 "Mycogr.," fig. 11. 



On the ground. Autumn. 



Name — /Lwcpog, small, (jiropog, seed ; from the small 

 sporidia. 



Hanham, Clifton ! (Mr. C. Bucknall). 



7. Geoglossum tremelloswm. Cooke. 



Glabrous, tremellose, black, contiguous ; club sub- 

 compressed, hollow ; stem even, glutinous, the same colour ; 

 asci clavate ; sporidia fusiform, straight or curved, 

 hyaline, 30 — 32 X 5/n, at length 5 to 7-septate ; para- 

 physes linear. 



Geoglossum tremellosum — Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 347. 

 Geoglossum microsporwm, var., tremellosum — Cooke in 

 « Grevillea," iv. p. 109. 



On the ground. 



Name — Tremulus, trembling ; from shaking when 

 agitated. 



Rannock, N.B. (Dr. Buchanan White). 



