38 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Flo.,” t. 55; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 1959; Fekl.,“Symb. 
Myco.,” 333; Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” fig. 10; Gill., “Champ.,” 
p. 25,64 
On the ground, mountain pastures, ete. Autumn. 
Subgregarious, 2 to 3 inches high; club broadly 
fusiform, obtuse at the apex, passing imperceptibly into 
the stem, black, rarely forming more than one-fourth of 
the entire height of the plant; stem rather slender 
(about 4 of an inch), glabrous, cylindrical, slimy, espe- 
cially in moist weather, paler towards the base, where it 
is brownish. The globose apices of the paraphyses is a 
eharacter which at once distinguishes this species from 
@. glutinosum and G. difforme. 
Name—Viscum, bird-lime, coated with a tenacious 
liquid, sticky. 
Foxhall (Capt. Wauch). Terrington, Norfolk! (Mr. 
C. B. Plowright). 
5. Geoglossum glutinosum. Pers. 
“Champ.,” p. 25, ¢. i. 
Exs.—Klotasch, “Exs.,” 641; Desm., “ Crypt. Fr.,” i. 
422; Karst., “Fung. Fenn.,” No. 450. ; 
On the ground in grassy places. Autumn. 
Gregarious, 1 to 2 inches high ; club oblong-lanceolate 
obtuse at the summit, viscid, compressed, black, oceupy- 
ing rather more than one-third of the entire height of 
the plant, passing imperceptibly into the viscid, slender 
cylindrical stem, which is brownish black. The sporidia 
adhere in a bundle, are generally 3-septate, brown; 
