22 The North American Cup-Fungi 



2. Gloeoglossum affine Durand, Ann. Myc. 6: 420. 1908. 



Ascophores solitary, or gregarious, black, viscid-gelatinous 

 when fresh, clavate, 1.5-2.5 cm. high; ascigerous portion nar- 

 rowly clavate-oblong, obtuse, compressed, occupying about one- 

 half the total length up to 3 mm. thick, not sharply differentiated 

 from the stem; stem slender, smooth; asci clavate, the apex 

 rounded, reaching a length of 130-160 /x and a diameter of 15 n, 

 8-spored; spores fasciculate, smoky-brown, clavate, 7-septate, 

 5-6 X 43-65 m; paraphyses slenderly cylindric below, 2.5 /z 

 thick, slightly and gradually thickened above, the terminal 

 portion septate, brownish, the terminal cell abruptly ellipsoid 

 to globose thickened, 7-8 /x in diameter, the lower ones either 

 cylindric, or nodulose, or abruptly and conspicuously thickened 

 below the septa, in extreme cases almost globose, either straight 

 or more less curved, or coiled above, and continuing down the 

 stem to its base. 



On soil or humus in swamps. 



Type locality: New York. 



Distribution : New York. 



Illustrations: Ann. Myc. 6: pi. 8J. 73-74; pi. 16 J. 165-167. 



3. Gloeoglossum dififorme (Fries) Durand, Ann. Myc. 6: 421. 



1908. 



Geoglossum diffornie Fries, Obs. Myc. 1: 159. 1815. (Not of authors.) 

 Geoglossum Peckianum Cooke, Hedwigia 14: 10. 1875. 



Ascophores solitary, or gregarious, sometimes two or three 

 together, black, smooth, viscid, especially below, evenly clavate, 

 with no line of demarcation between ascigerous portion and stem, 

 strongly compressed, apex obtuse, 3 6 cm. high, 8-14 mm. wide; 

 flesh brown, composed of parallel, cylindric, septate hyphae, 

 rather looser in the center but not hollow; asci clavate, gradually 

 narrowed from the middle toward the apex, the latter rounded, 

 the apical plug blue with iodine, reaching a length of 240-275 n 

 and a diameter of 18-25 fi, 8-spored; spores in a parallel fascicle 

 in the ascus, brownish-fuliginous, clavate-cylindric, slightly 

 narrowed from the middle each way, ends rounded, straight, or 

 slightly curved, smooth, 15-septate at maturity, the cells about 

 as long as wide, 6-7 X 95-125 n; paraphyses longer than the asci, 

 slender, septate, tips slightly thickened, brownish, much coiled 

 and twisted, continued down the stem to the base. 



