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separated by its spores paraphyses and somewhat porous club. From 
G. glabrum it is at once distinguished by its glabrous stem and the 
longer, not moniliform, terminal joints of the paraphyses. Its spores 
searcely differ from those of G. glabrum except in being more narrow. 
The spores of G. glabrum having been described in the Handbook 
as three to four-septate, I was led to consider a similar plant with 
seven-septate spores as distinct and described it in the 25th Report 
under the name Geoglossum simile. But the description on which I 
relied proves to have been erroneous, and the spores of G. glabrum 
have since been published as seven-septate, so that G. semile of the 
25th Report becomes a synonym of G. glabrum. 
The application of the specific name glabrum to the plant desig- 
nated by it is unfortunate and liable to mislead the student, for the 
stem is covered by a kind of minutely-tufted tomentum of matted 
septate filaments, which, with the projecting masses of spores from 
the mature club, give the plant a scarcely less hairy aspect than that 
of Geoglossum hirsutum. ' 
PrEzIzA IMPERIALIS 2. Sp. 
Bright sulphur-yellow ; cups irregular, six to twelve lines broad, 
often split on one side, with the margin incurved, externally pruinose- 
tomentose, the disk glabrous, becoming slightly orange-tinted in dry- 
ing; stem thick, somewhat lacunose, usually narrowed at the top, 
four to eight lines high ; asci cylindrical ; spores elliptical, .0004’ long, 
.0002’ broad; paraphyses filiform, slightly thickened at the top. 
Ground in woods. Greig. Scmemnen 
In consequence of the bright color the plant is quite showy. The: 
external pruinosity is due to the presence of a minute tomentum. 
The species is apparently allied to P. sordescens B. & C., but unless 
that species is badly described our plant must be distinct. (Plate 1, 
figs. 138-15.) 
PxEzIzA GRISEHO-ROSEA Ger. 
Ground in woods. Knowersville and Sandlake. July and 
August. 
PuzIzA ALBOSPADICEA (rev. 
Ground in woods. Sandlake. August. 
PEZIZA BRONOA n. sp. 
Cups gregarious or crowded, sessile, subhemispherical, four to nine 
lines broad, whitish or very pale-buff, externally roughened by small 
crowded whitish warts; asci cylindrical; spores elliptical, one to two- 
nucleate, .0008'—.0009' long, .0005' broad. 
Ground. Knowersville and Sandlake. July and August. (Plate 
2, figs. 10-12.) 
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