SPATHULARIA. 485 



Tliis is referred to the American species as a variety, but 

 it seems to be more tremellose than the typical form, and 

 the sporidia do not flow out and cover the surface of the 

 club ; this may be accounted for in that the specimens were 

 not s> fully matured. Sporidia -03 mm. long. (Cooke in 

 Grev., I.e.) 



As the synonyms show, this variety was afterwards raised 

 to specific rank by Cooke. After having examined the 

 specimens I prefer the varietal position, if indeed it can be 

 considered truly as such, and not as a mere form. 



SPATHULARIA. Ters. (figs. 22-24, p. 188.) 



Receptacle erect, spathulate, compressed, hollow, adnate 

 to the stem, down which it runs for some distance on op- 

 posite sides, everywhere covered with the hymenium ; stem 

 subcylindrical, hollow ; asci clavate, apex narrowed, 8- 

 spored; spores elongated, cylindric-clavate, multiseptate at 

 maturity, arranged in a parallel fascicle in the ascus ; para- 

 physes filiform, septate. 



Spathularia, Persoon, Tentam. Disp., p. 36 (1797); Phil., 

 Brit. Disc, p. 30 ; Sacc, Syll., p. 48. 



Distinguished by the broad, flattened ascophore running 

 down opposite sides of the stem. 



Growing on pine leaves or on the ground among moss. 



Spathularia clavata. Sacc, Mich., ii. p. 77; Syl!., 

 viii. n. 160 (tigs. 22-24, p. 188). 



Head spathulate or broadly clavate, obtuse or sometimes 

 more or less divided at the apex, hollow, much compressed, 

 running down the stem for some distance on opposite sides, 

 glabrous, margin crisped or undulated, surface wavy or 

 slightly lacunose, yellow, rarely tinged red, 2-3 cm. high, 

 1*5-2 *5 cm. broad; stem white then tinged yellow, 3-6 cm. 

 long, J— | cm. thick, hollow, cylindrical or slightly com- 

 pressed ; asci clavate, apex narrowed, 8-spored ; spores 

 arranged in a parallel fascicle, hyaline, linear-clavate, 

 usually very slightly bent, multiguttulate then multiseptate, 

 50-60 x 3*5-4 jx; paraphyses filiform, septate, often 

 branched, tips not thickened, wavy. 



