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6 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



curved, 7-septate, brown, 110 X 7/ul ; paraph yses filiform, 

 septate, flexuous above. 



Geoglossum difforme — Fries, "Obs. Myco.," i. 159; 

 " Sys. Myco," i. 489 ; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 178 ; Kromb, t. 54, 

 f. 28, 29; Berk, "Outl," 362; Cooke, "Handbk," 

 No. 1962 ; " Mycogr.." fig. 7 ; Karst, " Myco. Fenn," i. 31 ; 

 Price, t. 18, f. 117 ; Gill, " Champ," p. 25, c. i. 



Exs.— Berk, " Brit. Fung.," 256; Cooke, " Fung. Brit," 

 481, ed. ii. 394. 



On the ground in grassy places. Autumn. 



Caespitose, 1 to 4 inches high ; club difformed, bent, 

 irregular, somewhat viscid, especially when moist, with- 

 out hairs, black ; stem one-half to three-quarters of the 

 entire height of the plant, cylindrical, even ; the brown, 

 elongated, nearly cylindrical sporidia adhere in bundles ; 

 the septate paraphyses are not enlarged at the apices, 

 nor very deeply coloured. 



Distinguished from G. Gldbrum by its longer sporidia, 

 and the apices of the sporidia not being moniliform; 

 from G. glutinosum by its longer sporidia, and paraphyses 

 not being pyriform at the apices ; and from G. viscosum 

 by the more numerous septa of the sporidia and the 

 apices of the paraphyses. 



Name — Dis and forma, of irregular shape, deformed. 



Boughton House, Northamptonshire ; Bristol ; Wood- 

 newton ; Lampeter ; Bungay ; and Bryndulas (Rev. M. J. 

 Berkeley). Fern (Rev. J. Furguson). North Wootton, 

 Ringstead Downs ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Crosshill, 

 near Carlisle (Dr. Carlyle). Wrekin, Salop ! lawns near 

 Hereford ! 



3. Geoglossum gldbrum. Pers. 



Subgregarious, glabrous, dry, blackish; stem some- 

 what squamulose; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 linear, straight, or slightly curved, 7-septate, brown, 

 85 — 90/i long; paraphyses linear, thickened at the 

 apices, the four upper cells oval, concatenate. 



Geoglossum glabrum — Pers., " Obs. Myco," ii. p. 61 ; 

 Fries, ' : Sys. Myco," i. 488; Weinm, " Hym," 497; 



