16 The North American Cup-Fungi 



4. Microglossum olivaceum (Pers.) Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 25. 



1879. 



Geoglossum olivaceum Pers. Obs. Myc. 1: 40. 1796. 

 Geoglossum olivaceum Cooke, Mycographia 250. 1879. 

 Mitrula olivacea Sacc. Syll Fung 8: 38. 1889. 

 Microglossum contortum Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 328. 1898. 

 Microglossum obscurum Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 71. 1899. 



Ascophores solitary, or clustered, clavate, either regular, 

 twisted, or contorted, 2-8 cm. high; ascigerous portion occupying 

 about one-third to one-half the total length, continuous with the 

 stem but sharply delimited by color, greenish-brown, often with 

 a yellow or buff tint, compressed, obtuse, up to 3 cm. long, 10 

 mm. wide; stem terete, or compressed above, perfectly smooth, 

 shining, hygrophanous, yellowish-buff, tawny-buff, smoky-olive- 

 buff or brownish-cervine, fibrous, solid, 2-8 mm. thick; asci 

 cylindric-clavate, ape.x rounded, rarely narrowed, pore blue with 

 iodine, reaching a length of 75-100 n and a diameter of 9-10 ju. 

 8-spored; spores 2-seriate above, 1-seriate below, hyaline, smooth, 

 oblong-fusiform to fusiform, straight, curved, or sigmoid, for a 

 long time simple, finally becoming 3-septate, 4-6 X 12-18 /x; 

 paraphyses filiform, often branched, septate, straight or slightly 

 curved, or flexuous, not thickened above, hyaline. 



On the ground among leaves or in grassy places in rich woods. 



Type locality : Europe 



Distribution: Northeastern United States and Ontario; also 

 in Europe. 



Illustrations: Pers. Obs. Myc. 1: pi. 5,f. 7; Cooke, Myco- 

 graphia pi. 4, f. 13; Pat. Tab. Fung. /. 65; Berk. Outl. Brit. 

 Fung. pi. 22, J. 3; Ann. Myc. 6: pi. 5J. 19, 20; pi. 20, f. 209. 



Exsiccati: Ellis & Ev. Fungi Columb. 1745. 



5. Microglossum viride (Pers.) Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 25. 



1879. 



?Clavaria mitrata viridis Holmsk. Coryph. 24. fig. 1790. 



?Clavaria viridis Schrad. Gmel. Linn. Syst. Nat. 2: 1443. 1791. 



Geoglossum viride Pers. Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 117. 1794. 



Mitrula viridis Karst. Myc. Fenn. 1: 29. 1871. 



Helote viridis Hazsl. Magyar Akad. Ertek. Termesz. Kor. 11^^: 9. 1881. 



Leptoglossum alabamense Underw. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 82. 1897. 



Ascophores solitary, or more often gregarious, or cespitose, 

 clavate, up to 5 cm. high; ascigerous portion about one-half the 



