CORVNETES 17 



total length, sharph' delimited from the stem, lanceolate to 

 ellipsoid, obtuse, strongly compressed and deeply longitudinally 

 furrowed in older specimens 3-10 mm. wide, olive-buff, or olive- 

 ochraceous; stem terete, or slighth' compressed, 2-5 mm. thick, 

 conspicuously squamulose, pale pea-green; dried plants are 

 darker, sometimes almost black; crushed flesh pea-green to 

 olive, usually pale; asci clavate-cylindric, apex rounded or 

 slightly narrowed, pore blue with iodine, slender below, reaching 

 a length of 110-150 fx and a diameter of 8-10 n, 8-spored; spores 

 2-seriate above, 1 -seriate below, hyaline, smooth, cylindric- 

 oblong, ellipsoid-oblong, or oblong-clavate, ends obtuse, straight, 

 curved, or sigmoid, for a long time continuous, finally becoming 

 clearly 3-4-septate, 5-6 X 14-22 ii; paraphyses filiform, branched 

 hyaline, the apices often slightly pyriform-thickened and tinged 

 green, forming a green epithecium. 



On the ground, in moist woods, often along the borders of old 

 wood roads. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Eastern United States; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Cooke, Mycographia pi. 4,f. 14; Gill. Champ. 

 Fr. Discom. pi. 26, j. 2; Ann. Bot. \l: pJ. 13, f. 6S; Rab. Krypt.- 

 Fl. V: 1144,/. 1-4: Phill. Brit. Discom. pi. 2, f. 8; Ann. Myc. 

 pi. 5,f. 23-24; pi. 20, f. 208. 



Exsiccati: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2030; Fungi Columb. 

 1746. 



3. CORYNETES Hazsl. Magyar. Akad. Ertek. Termesz. 



Kor. 1119; 7. 1881. 



Geoglossum subg. Leptoglossum Cooke, Mycographia 250. 1879, (in part). 

 Microglossum Sacc. Bot. Cent. 18: 214. 1884. (Not Gill. 1879.) 

 Leptoglossum Sacc. Bot. Cent. 18: 214. 1884. (Not Karsten, 1879.) 

 Thuemenidium Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 2: 873. 1891. 

 Xanthoglossum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 2: 875. 1891. 



Ascophores fleshy, erect, stipitate, clavate, the hymenium 

 covering only the uj^per portion, black, brownish-black or 

 purplish-black; asci clavate-cylindric, opening by a pore, 8- 

 spored; spores usually 2-seriate, hyaline, smooth, cylindric, ends 

 rounded, becoming 3-many-septate; paraphyses present. 



Type species, Geoglossum microsporum Cooke «& Peck. 



