664 



ELVELLACEI. 



Soiv. t. 85. Schoeff. t. 327. Nees.f. 157. Schm. exs.no. 122. Mich, 

 t. 87,/. S.Berk. Outl. t. 22, f. 2. Corda. Anl. G.f. 65,/ 5-8. BiscU. 

 /. 3380-3384. ZowcZ./. 16184. Rav.exs.V\.no.lSi. FcM.exs.no, 

 1141. 



Amongst grass. Common. [S. Carolina.] 



1962. Geoglossum difforxne. Fr. *' Twisted Geoglossum." 



Smooth, even, subviscid, black ; club compressed, distinct ; 

 sporidia linear, curved, tri-septate, pale-brown. — Kromhli. t. 54, 

 /. 28, 29. Fr.S.M.i.pA^'d. Berk, exs.no. 266. Eng.Fl.y.p, 

 178. Kl. exs. ii. no. 424. Frice 1. 18,/. 117. 



Amongst grass. Sept. — Oct. [United States.] 



Receptacle compressed, lanceolate, liollowed out on either side, distorted, 

 distinct, smooth, very slightly viscid, dark brown-black, 1 in. or more long. 

 Stem equal, cylindrical, but little compressed, 1 5 in high, 2 lines thick ; 

 sporidia as in G. viscosum. — M.J.B. {Fig. 329, nat. size.) 



Gen. 295. 



RHIZZNA, Fr. 



Crustaceous, effused, then bul- 

 lato-inflated, underset with root- 

 like fibrils.— i^r. ^S'.F./S'. 



Receptacle effused, crustaceous, bullate, 

 concave beneath, furnished with numer- 

 ous root like fibrillae ; margin deflexed ; 

 hymenium occupying the whole of the 

 superior surface, even, persistent ; asci 

 fixed, large ; sporidia ovato-oblong, with 

 two sporidioli; stem none ; pileus con- 

 vex, subrotund, determinate, margin at 

 firstbyssoid J substance fleshy. — Fr.S.M. 

 ii. p. 33. (Fig. 330.) 



1963. 



Fig. 330. 



Rhizina undulata. 



Fr. *' Waved Ehizina." 



Effused, undulated, bay-brown; margin inflexed, flocculose 

 beneath and pallid ; asci linear, eight spored ; sporidia fusiform, 

 binucleate ; paraphyses clayiform. — Fr, S.M. ii.i?. 33. Tul. Hyp. 

 t. 21 J. 16. B. I' Br. Ann. N.H. no. 1076. Intell. Ohs. no. 25. 

 Curr. Linn. Trans, xxiv.^. 493, t. 51,/. 7-9. Rahh. exs. no. 39. 



On sandy banks where the heath had been burnt down. Ascot. 



[S. Carolina.] 



Some of the specimens have a raised yellow margin, as in i?. Icevigata, but 

 this vanishes with age. Sporidia colourless or yellowi&h (•0012.-0014 m.) 

 •025--03 m.m. long. (^^9- 3^"-) 



