36 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
. curved, 7-septate, brown, 110 x 7u; paraphyses filiform, 
septate, flexuous above. ios 
Geoglossum difforme—Fries, “Obs. Myco.,” i. 159; 
“ Sys. Myco.,” i. 489 ; “ Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 178; Kromb., t. 54, 
f. 28, 29; Berk. “Outl,” 362; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” 
No. 1962; “Mycoer.,” fig. 7; Karst., “Myco. Fenn.,” i. 31; 
Price, t. 18, £ 117; Gill, “Champ.,” p. 25, ¢ i. 
Exs.—Berk., “ Brit. Fung.,” 256; Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” 
481, ed. ii. 394, 
On the ground in grassy places. Autumn. 
Ceespitose, 1 to 4 inches high; club difformed, bent, 
irregular, somewhat viscid, especially when moist, with-. 
out hairs, black ; stem one-half to three-quarters of the 
entire height of the plant, cylindrical, even; the brown, 
elongated, nearly cylindrical sporidia ‘adhere in bundles ; 
the septate paraphyses are not enlarged at the apices, 
nor very deeply coloured. 
Distinguished from G. Glabrum by its longer sporidia, 
and the apices of the sporidia not being moniliform; 
from G. glutinosum by its longer sporidia, and paraphyses 
not being pyriform at the apices; and from G. viscosum 
by the more numerous septa-of the sporidia and the 
apices of the paraphyses. 
Name—Dis and forma, of irregular shape, deformed. 
Boughton House, Northamptonshire; Bristol; Wood- 
newton; Lampeter; Bungay; and Bryndulas (Rev. M. J. 
Berkeley). Fern (Rev. J. Furguson). North Wootton, 
Ringstead Downs! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Crosshill, 
near Carlisle (Dr. Carlyle). Wrekin, Salop! lawns near 
Hereford ! 
3. Geoglossum glabrum. Pers. 
Subgregarious, glabrous, dry, blackish; stem some- 
what squamulose; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, 
linear, straight, or slightly curved, 7-septate, brown, 
85—90u long; paraphyses linear, thickened at the 
apices, the four upper cells oval, concatenate, 
Geoglossum glabrum—Pers., “Obs. Myco.,” ii. p. 61; 
Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” i 488; Weinm., « Hym.,” 497 : 
