Spathularia 35 



Ascophorcs solitar\', or usually gregarious, rarely cespitose, 

 with two or three together, sometimes growing in lines or circles, 

 fleshy up to 10 cm. high, whole plant pallid when young and 

 fresh, then becoming yellowish, or brownish; ascigerous portion 

 darker than the stem, much compressed, fan-shaped, obtuse or 

 rounded, decurrent on opposite sides of the stem, even, undulate, 

 or radiately rugose, sometimes contorted, clavate, or almost 

 capitate, occupying about one-third to one-half the total length 

 of the ascophore, up to 2.5 cm. wide; stem hollow, smooth or 

 farinose, terete or somewhat compressed, tapering slightly up- 

 ward, often swollen or bulbous below, slightly brownish at the 

 base, up to 1 cm. in diameter, attached by a pallid, or yellowish 

 mycelium; flesh white; ascophores usually becoming yellowish- 

 brown when dry; asci clavate, apex conspicuously narrowed, 

 often submammiform, not blue with iodine, reaching a length of 

 100-125 n and a diameter of 12 14 n, 8-spored; spores in a paral- 

 lel fascicle in the ascus, often twisted together above, smooth, 

 clavate-filiform, multiseptate, hyaline, 2.5-3 X 35-65 ^i (40-50) ; 

 paraphyses filiform, branched, hyaline, much curled, or coiled 

 at the apices, not thickened. 



On soil or humus, but most commonly under pines among 

 the needles. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New Brunswick to California; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Schaeff. Ic. Fung. pi. 149; Cooke, Myco- 

 graphia pi. 95, f. 342; Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. pi. 27, f. J; 

 Phill. Brit. Discom. pi. 2, f. 7; Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. pi. 165; 

 Berk. Outl. Brit. Fung. pi. 21, f. 7; Sow. Engl. Fung. pi. 35; 

 Seaver, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa pi. l,f. 1; Ann. 

 Myc. 6: pi. 10, f. 98-100; pi. 22, f. 220. 



ExsiccATi: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 1268; Clements, Crypt. 

 Form. Colo. 127. 



2. Spathularia velutipes Cooke & Farlow; Cooke, Grevillea 12: 

 37. 1883. (PLATii 81, Fig. 1.) 



Ascophores solitary, or usually gregarious, occasionally 

 cespitose several being united by a common base, up to 5 cm. 

 high, 1-3 cm. wide, fan-shaped; ascigerous portion much com- 

 pressed, yellowish to brownish-yellow, decurrent on opposite 

 sides of the stem, the margin rounded, even, or often wavy or 

 incised or lobed, sometimes contorted, about 1 cm. high at the 



