Geoglossum 25 



rather acute, one-half the total length of the ascophore or less, 

 2-5 mm. thick; stem terete, slender, 1-2 mm. thick, furfuraceous, 

 minutely squamulose, or almost smooth; asci clavate or clavate- 

 lanceolate, apex narrowed but rounded, reaching a length of 

 150-175 n and a diameter of 18 /x, 8-spored; spores in a parallel 

 fascicle in the ascus, clavate, fuliginous, 7-septate, 6 X 54-85 n; 

 paraphyses rather longer than the asci, cylindric, septate, the 

 cells 2-10 times as long as wide, not constricted, rarely slightly 

 swollen below the septa, pale-brown above, either only slightly 

 thickened, or the apex of the terminal cell pyriform, usually 

 more or less curved. 



On wet ground, banks, or among leaves on rich humus, rarely 

 on rotten ground. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Maine to North Carolina and California and 

 Bermuda; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Cooke, Mycographia pi. <J6, f. 345; Peck, 

 Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 29: pi. l,f. 20-22; Ann. Myc. 6: 

 pi. 7,f. 57-59; pi. 12, f. 130-132. 



This species has been found to be very common in Bermuda, 

 having been collected there by the writer in 1912, 1926, 1938, 

 and 1940. 



3. Geoglossum fallax Durand, Ann. Myc. 6: 428. 1908. 



?Geoglossum glabrum paludosum Pers. Myc. Eur. 1: 194. 1822. 



Ascophores solitary, clavate, 2-8.5 cm. high, entirely tawny- 

 brown to umber-brown; ascigerous portion one-fifth to one-half 

 the total length of the ascophore, lanceolate, obtuse, slightly 

 compressed, about 8-15 mm. long, 3-5 mm. thick; stem short, 

 or elongated and slender, squamulose especially above, slightly 

 thickened upward, 1-2 mm. thick below, 2 mm. thick above, 

 terete; asci clavate-cylindric, the apex narrowed, pore blue with 

 iodine, reaching a length of 150-175 m and a diameter of 18-20 m, 

 8-spored; spores 2-seriate to multiseriate in the ascus, clavate- 

 cylindric, straight, or curved, at first continuous and multi- 

 guttulate, then 3- finally 7-12-septate, 5-7 X 65 105 m (80-100), 

 for a long time hyaline, finally becoming fuliginous; paraphyses 

 entirely hyaline, cylindric, not closely septate, 5-6 m thick, 

 usually strongly curved, or circinate above, the apex abruptly 

 ellipsoid to globose thickened. 



