Helvellaceae 



spathuiaria. hollow, cylindrical or slightly compressed; asci clavate, apex narrowed, 

 8-spored. Spores arranged in a parallel fascicle, hyaline, linear-clavate, 

 usually very slightly bent, multiguttulate then multiseptate, 5060x3.5 

 4/u-; paraphyses filiform, septate, often branched, tips not thickened, 

 wavy. Mas see. 



New York. Woods in hilly and mountainous districts. Common. 

 Peck, 22d Rep. 



Professor Peck gives S. rugosa, which has the club wrinkled. 



This odd, pretty little plant was found by me in great numbers at 

 Eagle's Mere, Pa., August, 1897, growing among mosses. The con- 

 trast of its bright yellow paddle-shapes against the moss-green is very 

 pleasing to one who loves choice bits of color. Its consistency when 

 stewed is tenacious but tender, and its flavor is delicate. 



Geoglossnm. (Plate CLI.) 



GEOGLOS'SUM Pers. 

 (Emended.) 



Entire fungus more or less clavate, erect, the apical, 

 thickened portion everywhere covered with the hymen- 

 ium ; glabrous or hairy, often viscid; asci clavate, 

 apex narrowed, 8-spored. Spores elongated, ar- 

 ranged in a parallel fascicle, cylindrical or very slightly 

 thickened above the middle, and inclined to become 

 cylindric-clavate, brown, septate, usually slightly 

 curved; paraphyses septate, brown at the tips, often 

 longer than the asci. 



Distinguished among the clavate species by the long, 

 narrow, brown, septate spores. The entire plant is 

 black in all British species. 



Growing on the ground, among grass, etc. Massee. 



GEOGLOSSUM 

 GLUTINOSUM. 



About nat. size. 



G. glutino'sum Pers. Ascophore 1.5-2 in. 

 black, glabrous; ascigerous portion about K of the en- 

 tire length, oblong, lanceolate, up to .4 in. broad, ob- 

 tuse, slightly viscid, more or less compressed, passing 

 imperceptibly into the somewhat slender, cylin- 

 drical, viscid, brownish-black stem ; asci clavate, taper- 

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