CORYNETES 19 



2. Corynetes atropurpureus (Pers.) Durand, Ann. Myc. 6: 414. 



1908. 



Geoglossum atropiirpureum Pers. Obs. Myc. 2: 62. 1799. 



Mitrula glabra Karst. Myc. Fenn. 1: 30. 1871. 



Geoglossum microsporum Cooke & Peck; Peck, .\nn. Rep. N. V. State Mus. 



25: 97. 1873. 

 Geoglossum tremellosum Cooke, Mycographia 206. 1878. 

 Geoglossum microsporum var. tremellosum Cooke, Grevillea 4: 109. 1876. 

 Leptoglossum microsporum Sacc. Bot. Cent. 18: 214. 1884. 

 Microglossum atropjirpureum Karst. hcta.Soc.¥a.um.¥\. Fenn. 2": 110. 1885. 

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

 Mitrula microspora Massee, Brit. Fungus-Fl. 4: 483. 1895. 



Ascophores solitary, or cespitose, entirely black, at least when 

 dry, rather slender, 2-3 cm. high; ascigerous portion about one- 

 half the total length, narrowly clavate-oblong, obtuse; stem 

 slender, minuteh' squamulose; asci clavate, apex narrowed but 

 rounded, reaching a length of 100-127 /x and a diameter of 10 ju, 

 8-spored; spores 2-seriate, hyaline, smooth, cylindric but tapering 

 slightly toward the obtuse ends, at first simple, finally becoming 

 up to 10-septate, 3 4 X 25-35 fi; paraphyses filiform, hyaline, 

 branched, straight, the apices scarcely thickened and rarely 

 only slightly bent, the tips of the asci and paraphyses being 

 united by a vinous-brown amorphous layer forming an epi- 

 thecium. 



On the ground in woods. 



Type locality': Europe. 



Distribution: New Hampshire and New York; also in 

 Europe. 



Illustration.s : Pers. Obs. Myc. 2: pi. 3,f. 5; Cooke, Myco- 

 graphia pi. 3,f. 11; pi. 96 J. 347; Ann. Bot. 11: pi. 13 J. 55-57; 

 Ann. Myc. 6: pi. 6,f. 27-35. 



3. Corynetes robustus Durand, Ann. Myc. 6: 416. 1908. 



Ascophores solitary, or gregarious, often cespitose, black or 

 brownish-black, 2.5-8 cm. high, stout; ascigerous portion occu- 

 pying about one-fourth to one-half the total length, not sharply 

 differentiated from the stem, black with an olive-brown tint, 

 pyriform-ellipsoid, obtuse, 1-3 cm. long, 6-15 mm. broad, more 

 or less compressed, or longitudinally furrowed, sometimes 

 twisted, hollow, flesh dark-brown; stem terete or compressed, 

 paler, shining brownish-black, h\grophanous, lightly squamu- 

 lose above, 1-4 cm. high, 3-8 mm. thick; asci clavate, stout, 

 sessile, or short-stipitate, apex narrowed, pore blue with iodine, 



