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apices of paraphyses nearly pear-shape, brown, and not 
septate. 
Name—Gluten, glue = glutinous. 
Bristol, Coed Coch (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Hanham 
Woods, near Bristol (Mr. C. E. Broome). Mousehold 
Heath and South Wootton Heath, Norfolk! (Mr. C. B. 
Plowright). Hanham (Mr. Cedric Bucknall). 
B. SPORIDIA HYALINE. 
6. Geoglosswm microsporwm. Cooke and Peck. 
Glabrous, somewhat viscid; club obtuse, distinct ; 
stem slightly squamulose; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, 
2-seriate, crowded, cylindrical, a little curved, hyaline, 
faintly 7-septate, 50 xX 10; paraphyses filiform, straight, 
not enlarged at the apices. : 
Geoglossum microsporum—Cooke and Peck,“ Twenty- 
fifth Report New York Mus. Nat. Hist.”; Cooke, 
“ Mycogr.,” fig. 11. 
On the ground. Autumn. 
Name—pixpéc, small, odpoc, seed; from the small 
sporidia. 
Hanham, Clifton! (Mr. C. Bucknall). 
7. Geoglossum tremellosum. Cooke. 
Glabrous, tremellose, black, contiguous; club sub- 
compressed, hollow ; stem even, glutinous, the same colour ; 
asci clavate; sporidia fusiform, straight or curved, 
hyaline, 30—32 X 5u, at length 5 to 7-septate; para- 
physes linear. 
Geoglossum tremellosum—Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” fig. 347. 
Geoglossum microsporum, var., tremelloswm—Cooke in 
“ Grevillea,” iv. p. 109. 
On the ground. 
Name—Tremulus, trembling; from shaking when 
agitated. 
Rannock, N.B. (Dr. Buchanan White). 
