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“Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 178; Krombh., t. 5, f. 20, 21; Fekl., 
“Symb. Myco.,” 333; Berk., “Outl,” 362; Price, t. 3, 
f£. 17; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 1960; Kickx., “Flo. Flan.,” 
i. 501; Seer., “ Mycogr.,” iii. 621; Gill, “Champ.,” p. 25, 
c.1.; Pat. p. 29, £67. Clavaria ophioglossoides—Bull., 
“Champ.,” t. 372; Bolt., “Fung,” t. 211, f. 1; “Flo. 
Dan.,” t. 1076, £. 2; Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” fig. 1. 
Exs.—Fekl, “F. Rh.,” 1142; Schm. and Kze., 97; 
Moug. and Nest., 684; Phil, “Elv. Brit.” 55; Roumg., 
“ Stirpes,” 262; Ellis, “N. A. Fungi,” 980. 
On the ground in grassy places. Autumn. 
Gregarious, 1 to 3 inches high; club lanceolate, passing 
gradually into the even stem, blackish; stem rather 
slender, crooked, cylindrical, half to two-thirds the entire 
height of the plant, rather squamulose; sporidia cylin- 
drical, rounded at the ends, brown, usually 7-septate, 
adhering together in a bundle; paraphyses remarkable 
from the four or five upper cells being larger, constricted 
at the joints, almost beaded, and brown. 
Name— Glaber, smooth. 
Near Halifax (Bolton). Scotland (Klotzsch in “ Hook. 
Herb.”). Near Bungay (Mr. Stock). Malvern (Mr. 
Edwin Lees). North ot Ireland (Templeton). Wood- 
newton, Northamptonshire; Coed Coch; Crundale; 
Ascot; Holm Lacy ; and Memmuir (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 
Twycross (Rev. A Bloxham). fPaul’s Cray Common 
(Mr. F. Currey). Castle Rising! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
Abergavenny! (Mr. J. Renney). Whitcliffe, near Lud- 
low! Wrekin, Salop! 
4. Geoglossum viscosum. Pers. 
Glabrous, viscid, black; club cylindrical, confluent 
with the stem, afterwards slightly thickened, olivaceous- 
black below ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, linear, 
rounded at the ends, straight, or slightly curved, 3-sepiate, 
brown; 80 X 954; paraphyses filiform, non-septate, 
globose apices. 
Geoglossum viscoswm—Pers., “Comm.,” p. 59; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” i. 439; “ Epic,” i. p. 583; Grev., “Se. Crypt. 
