Gloeoglossum 21 



asci clavate-cylindric, pore blue with iodine, 8-spored; spores 

 fascicled, or multiseriate in the ascus, cylindric or clavate- 

 cylindric, 3-15-septate (rarely simple in one species), brown or 

 fuliginous; paraphyses numerous, septate, thickened, or coiled 

 and brown above, not confined to the hymenium but continued 

 down the stem to its base. 



Type species, Geoglossum difforme Fries. 



Spores 0-7-septate when mature. 



Spores 0-7-septate, clavate-cylindric, 55-102 /u long. 1. G. glutinostim. 



Spores 7-septate, clavate, 43-65 y. long. 2. G. affine. 



Spores 15-septate when mature. 3. G. difforme. 



1. Gloeoglossum glutinosum (Pers.) Durand, Ann. Myc. 6: 419. 

 1908. 



Geoglossum glutinosum Pers. Obs. Mj'C. 1:11. 1796. 

 ?Geoglossum viscosiim Pers. in Holmsk. Coryph. 39. 1797. 

 Geoglossum glutinosum luhricum Pers. Myc. Eur. 1: 197. 1822. 



Ascophores solitary or clustered, 5-8 cm. high, viscid- 

 gelatinous; ascigerous portion clavate, or narrowly elliptic, 

 more or less compressed, apex obtuse, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 5-10 

 mm. thick, black, not sharply differentiated from the stem; stem 

 4-6 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick, terete or slightly compressed, brown 

 or brownish-black, very smooth and viscid, covered to the base 

 by the paraphyses; flesh brown, composed of parallel septate 

 hyphae, rather looser in the center; asci narrowly clavate, 

 narrowed from the middle toward the apex, the pore blue with 

 iodine, reaching a lei.gth of 250 n and a diameter of 12-15 m, 8- 

 spored; spores multiseriate in the ascus, cylindric, or slightly 

 narrowed toward the rounded ends, fuliginous, at first simple, 

 then 3-septate, finally in most cases 7-septate, 5 6 X 55-102 n 

 (75-85) ; paraphyses cylindric, septate, 3 ju thick, longer than the 

 asci, the apices pale-brown and abruptly pyriform to globose 

 thickened, 8-10 m thick. 



On the ground and on rotten wood, in rich woods. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Ontario to North Carolina; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Cooke, Mycographia pi. 2, f. 6; pi. 3, f. 10; 

 Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. pi. 25, J. 2; pi. 26, f. 1; Grev. Scot. 

 Crypt. Fl. pi. 55; Massee, Ann. Bot. U: pi. 13, f. 66, 67; Ann. 

 Myc. 6: pi. 8,f. 70-72; pi. 14, f. 149-155. 



