38 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Flo./'t. 55; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 1959; Fckl, " Symb. 

 My co.," 333 ; Cooke, " Mycogr," fig. 10 ; Gill, " Champ," 

 p. 25, c. i. 



On the ground, mountain pastures, etc. Autumn. 



Subgregarious, 2 to 3 inches high ; club broadly 

 fusiform, obtuse at the apex, passing imperceptibly into 

 the stem, black, rarely forming more than one-fourth of 

 the entire height of the plant ; stem rather slender 

 (about -J of an inch), glabrous, cylindrical, slimy, espe- 

 cially in moist weather, paler towards the base, where it 

 is brownish. The globose apices of the paraphyses is a 

 character which at once distinguishes this species from 

 G. glutinosum and G. difforme. 



Name — Viscum, bird-lime, coated with a tenacious 

 liquid, sticky. 



Foxhall (Capt. Wauch). Terrington, Norfolk ! (Mr 

 C. B. Plowright). 



5. Geoglossum glutinosum. Pers. 



Glabrous, black; club compressed, distinct, nearly 

 lanceolate, obsoletely viscid, black ; stem viscid, bay- 

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

 straight, or curved, 3-septate, brown; 80^i long; para- 

 physes filiform, non-septate, apices subpyriform, brown. 



Geoglossum glutinosum — Pers, " Obs," i. p. 11 ; 

 Fries, " Sys. Myco," i. 489; "Eng. Flo," v. p. 178 

 Karst, "Myco. Fenn," i. 30; Weinm, "Hyrn," 497 

 Berk, " Outl," 362 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 1958 

 "Mycogr," fig. 6; Kickx, "Flo. Flan," i. 501; Gill. 

 " Champ," p. 25, c. i. 



Exs.— Klotzsch, " Exs," 641 ; Desm, " Crypt. Fr," i. 

 422 ; Karst., " Fung. Fenn," No. 450. 



On the ground in grassy places. Autumn. 



Gregarious, 1 to 2 inches high ; club oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse at the summit, viscid, compressed, black, occupy- 

 ing rather more than one-third of the entire height of 

 the plant, passing imperceptibly into the viscid, slender, 

 cylindrical stem, which is brownish black. The sporidia 

 adhere in a bundle, are generally 3-septate, brown; 



