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erally obtuse, much compressed, running down the stipe for 

 some distance on opposite sides, hollow, glabrous, margin un- 

 dulated, surface wavy or slightly lacunose, yellowish, up to 

 1.25 in. wide by 1.5 in. long; spores parallel in fascicles, hya- 

 line, linear-clavate, slightly bent, multiseptate, containing small 

 oil drops, up to 45 mic. long by 2 mic. wide ; paraphyses fili- 

 form, septate, branched, tips not thickened but wavy, up to 2 

 mic. wide, numerous. 



On rotten wood among moss. 



St. Louis, July 1886, Arthur 194 ; * Cook, Aug. 1903, Free- 

 man and Ballard 20. 



These specimens agree with Thuemen Fungi Austr. 925, in 

 which the spores measure up to 50 mic. x 2 mic. ; Sydow My- 

 coth. March 2516, in which the spores measure 45-60 mic. x 

 2 mic. ; A. Kerner Fl. Exsicc. Austro-Hung. 1874, m which 

 the spores measure 40-50 mic. ; Ellis N. A. Fungi 1268, in 

 which the spores measure 40-60 mic. x 2 mic. 



Krombholz Schwamme III., -pi. 5>>fig. 22. 1834. 



ii. Geoglossum hirsutum PERS. Comm. Schaff. Icon. Fungi 

 Bav. 37. 1800. (Plate III., fig. 5; Plate V.,figs. 1-4.} 

 Caespitose, erect, black : stipe cylindrical, solid, even, black, 

 hirsute, up to 2.25 in. long by i in. wide; pileus club shaped, 

 compressed or plicate, distinct from stipe, hirsute, up to i in. 

 long and .75 in. wide; spores linear, slightly curved, septate 

 into about 16 cells, multiguttulate, brown, obtuse, 100-120 

 mic. long by 4-7 mic. wide ; paraphyses filiform, septate, curved 

 or arched at the tip, much enlarged, brownish, 3 mic. wide, tip 

 4-6 mic. wide; setae rigid, simple, brown or black, intermingled 

 with the asci, sometimes twice as long as the asci, projecting 

 beyond. 



On moist ground among grass. 



* Washington, July and Sept. 1903, Lyon ; Washington, 

 July 1903, Wheeler. 



The specimens agree with Jaczewski, Komarov, Franzchel. 

 Fungi Rossiae Exsicc. 245, in which the spores measure 100- 

 135 x 4 mic. ; Sydow Mycoth. March 1069, in which the spores 

 measure 100-120 x 4 mic. 



They agree with the figures and description of Massee, 

 Monograph of Geoglossaceae, Ann. Bot., Vol. n, PL XIII., 

 fig s - 7 8 ^ 79 5 PI- XII., figs, j/, j/, a, 32. 1897 ; Krombholz 

 Schwamme III., PL 5, figs. 20-21. 1834. 



