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I have not been able to find specimens in Mr. 

 Sowerby's collection ; possibly it may be a state of 

 Pistillaria micans (" Eng. Flo.," v. p. 180). 



Genus VII. — Spathularia. Pers. 



Receptacle vertical, compressed laterally, running 

 down two opposite sides of the distinct stem ; substance 

 fleshy-membranaceous ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, filiform, 

 hyaline ; paraphyses filiform. (Plate II. fig. 7.) 



The one British species of this genus is easily dis- 

 tinguished from plants of other allied genera by the 

 hymenium running down two opposite sides of the stem, 

 assuming a spoon-like outline owing to its being laterally 

 compressed. Some species of Leptoglossum and Geo- 

 glossum are compressed, but the hymenium entirely 

 surrounds the stem. 



Name — Diminutive of airaOr}, a spatula. 



1. Spathularia flavida. Pers. 



Head spathulate, compressed, nearly even, j^ellow; 

 margin crisped or undulated; stem white; asci clavate; 

 sporidia 8, acicular-filiform, multi-guttulate, 60 — 70 x 6 

 — 7fx ; paraphyses filiform, branched, numerous. (Plate II. 



Spathularia flavida — Pers., " Comra.," p. 84 ; Fries, 

 "Sys. Myco," i. 491; Grev, " Sc. Crypt. Flo," t. 165; 

 " Eng. Flo," v. p. 179 ; Price, t. 5, f. 34 ; D. 0, " Flo. 

 Fr," ii. 95; Berk, "Outl.," t. 21, f. 7; Cooke, "Handbk," 

 No. 1953, fig. 326; Kromb, t v. f. 22; Karst, "Myco. 

 Fenn," 27 ; Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 342 ; Gill., " Champ," 

 p. 26, c. i. Elvella clavata — SchaefY, t. 149. Clavaria, 

 sjoathulata—" Flo. Dan.," t. 658 ; Schmidt, " Icon," t. 50. 

 Helvetia spathularia— Sow, " Fung," t. 35. H. feritoria 

 — Bolt, t. 97. Spathularia flava — Swartz, " Vet. Ac. 

 HandL," 1812, p. 10. S. crispa— Corda, " Icon," ii. 36. 

 f. 125. S. Jlavidor— FckL, " Symb. Myco," p. 332. 



Exs.— Rabh, " Herb. Myco," 28 ; Desm, " Crypt. Fr," 

 ii. 455; Rabh, "Fung. Eur," ii. 126; Wartm. and Schw, 



