Trichoglossum 29 



Geoglosstim farinaceum Schw. Schr. Nat. Ges. Leipzig 1: 113. 1822. The 

 t}'pe is missing from Schweinitz's herbarium and no specimens are known to 

 exist elsewhere. It is probabI\' not a ciiscom\cete. 



6. TRICHOGLOSSUM Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 1: 110. 1885. 

 Geoglossum Pers. in part. 



Ascophores fleshy, erect, stipitate, clavate, hymenium cover- 

 ing only the upper portion, black; asci clavate or ligulate, 4-8- 

 spored; spores fasciculate, or multiseriate in the ascus, clavate- 

 cylindric, up to 15-septate, fuliginous, or brown; paraphyses 

 numerous, septate, brown above, confined to the ascigerous 

 portion, both the stem and hymenium beset with black, thick- 

 walled, acicular spines or cystidia which are usually longer than 

 the asci; paraphyses usually stout, straight or strongly curved. 



Type species, Geoglossum hirsutnm Pers. 



Spores normally 100-170 yu long, narrowed each way 

 from above the middle. 

 Spores 4 in each ascus. 

 Spores 8-11-septate. 

 Spores 15-septate. 

 Spores 8 in each ascus. 

 Spores 15-septate. 

 Spores 8-9-septate. 

 Spores 7-septate. 

 Spores normally 45-100 m long. 



Spores 0-5-septate. clavate-cylindric. 

 Spores 7-septate. 



Spores 55-73 ix long, clavate. 



Spores 75-100 ju long, clavate-cylindric. 



1. Trichoglossum velutipes (Peck) Durand, Ann. Myc. 6: 434. 

 1908. (Plate 77.) 



Geoglossum hirsutuni var. americanum Cooke, Mycographia 3. 1875. 



Geoglossum americanum Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 46. 1889. 



Geoglossum velutipes Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 28: 65. 1876. 



Ascophores solitar>-, or gregarious, sometimes cespitose, up 

 to 10 cm. high, black or brownish-black; ascigerous portion 

 lanceolate, ellipsoid, or subrotund, one-fifth to one-third the 

 total length of the fruiting body, 3-15 mm. long, 4-10 mm. 

 thick, more or less compressed, rounded above, usually rather 

 sharply delimited from the stem; stem terete, somewhat flexuous, 

 2 3 mm. thick, equal, black, velvety; asci short-stipitate, clavate, 

 apex narrowed, reaching a length of 175-210 m and a diameter of 



