32 The North American Cup-Fungi 



thickened and strongly curved; spines black, acute, projecting 

 only slightly above the hymenium. 



On damp soil in open places. 



Type locality : Cuba. 



Distribution: Cuba and Bermuda. 



Illustrations: Mycologia 22: pi. 13, f. 4; 32: 390,/. 1; Ann. 

 Myc. 6: pi. 9J. 83; pi. 16, f. 174. 



This form was first reported by Durand on two specimens 

 from Cuba. Later collections of the author from Bermuda in 

 1912 (Britton, Brown & Seaver 1404) convinced Durand that it 

 was a distinct species. Abundant material was collected in 

 Bermuda in 1926 by the author and H. H. Whetzel, and again in 

 1940 by the author and J. M. Waterston. It is one of the com- 

 monest species in Bermuda. 



5. Trichoglossum octopartitum Mains, Am. Jour. Bot. 27: 325. 



1940. 



Ascophores clavate, 1.5-4 cm. high, slender, 2-4 mm. thick 

 above, black, hirsute; stem slender 1-1.5 mm. thick; asci clavate, 

 reaching a length of 175-200 /i and a diameter of 18-20 /x; spores 

 fusoid-clavate, attenuated toward both ends from above the 

 middle, 6 X 100-140 ix, usually 7-septate; setae brown, acumi- 

 nate, reaching a length of 240 y., projecting considerably above 

 the hymenium; paraphyses slender slightly enlarged above and 

 curved at their apices. 



On the ground. 



Type locality: British Honduras. 



Distribution: Smoky Mountains, National Park, Tennessee; 

 also in British Honduras. 



Illustrations: Am. Jour. Bot. 27: 324,/. 10. 



6. Trichoglossum Farlowi (Cooke) Durand, Ann. Myc. 6: 438. 



1908. (Plate 80.) 



Geoglossum Farlowi Cooke, Grevillea 11: 107. 1883. 



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



Ascophores solitary, or clustered, two or three together, 2-6 

 cm. high; ascigerous portion lanceolate in outline, not sharply 

 distinguished from the stem, brownish-black, about one-third 

 the total length of the plant, 1-3 cm. long, 3-5 mm. or more 

 thick; stem terete, equal, often fiexuous, rarely somewhat com- 

 pressed, 2 mm. thick, 2-4 cm. long, black, densely velvety with 



