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THE LARGER FUNGI 
The species of Geoglossum are small elu1)-shape(l yellow, olive-bulf or blacjK 
])lants lin. or more high. In some the fertile distal portion may be expanded 
and tlattened so as to resend)le a narrow elongated tongue, and hence the name. 
Dr. C. G. Lloyd, in ‘‘The Geogiossaceae, ” 191(i, divides the species into two 
sections, those not black when fresh and those that are black. The Australian 
species so far collected and recorded seem all to belong to the black section. 
Lloyd divides the black section into (i.) viscid species, (ii.) not viscid, smooth 
or merely clammy, ami (iii.) hirsute species. G. capitatum Pers., a hairy species 
with a ca[)itate club, has been identitied for us by Dr. Lloyd from Sydney, May. 
He has also identitied G. glahrum Pers., a smooth iion-viscid species, from 
Neutral Bay, Sydney, .Tune. Only two collections have been made in South 
Australia which seem referable to G. glahrum and G. nigriturn Fr., which latter is 
perhaps a form of G. glahrum. 
5(i(i. Geoglossum glabrum Pers. (L., glaher, smooth). — Plant up to If to 2Iin. 
(4.;> to (5.2 cm.) high, bladk, distal 4 to Jin. (1.2 to 1.8 cm.) club-shaped, some- 
times flattened, occasionally slightly fluted, nearly smooth, up to 5 mm. thick. 
Stem up to 3 mm. thick, finely granular. Flesh black. Asci slightly curved,, 
140 X 18 ft,; spores narrow, 5 to 11 septate (usually), 3.7 x 5.5 g; paraphyses 
septate. Aliform, the ends bent and a little thickened (club-shaped), moniliform 
with four constrictions. South Australia — In sand. Back Valiev off Inman 
A^alley. August. 
[From IV It ter colour hy J. Buxton. 
Figure 75. — Peziza iiefticulosa- Bull. (No. 568). 
On dung, Beaumont, near Adelaide. 
5(57. Geoglossum nigriturn Fr. (L., nigritia, blackness). — Plant up to lin. 
(2.5 cm.) high, club-shaped (narrowly or broadly so, sometimes flattened or 
flabelliform elulj-shaped), more or less longitudinally rugose, the stem passing 
imperceptibly into the club, in one instance brajiching from the base into three. 
Asci club-shaped, 2(50 x 15 spores narrow, ends pointed, dark -brown, 7-septate, 
45 to 48 X 4 to 4.5 fi\ paraphyses club-shaped, bent at the end, septate. South 
Australia — In sandy soil, Hope Valley near Adelaide. September. 
PEZIZA Dill. 
(L., peeiza, a kind of fungus.) 
‘ ‘ Ascophore sessile, but sometimes narrowed to a short, stem-like base, fleshy 
and brittle, closed at Arst, then expanding until cup-sliaped, saucer-shaped, or in 
some species quite plane or even convex; disc even, nodulose, or veined; externally 
w'arted, scurfy, or rarely almost glabrous; cortical cells irregularly polygonal. 
Asci cvlindrical, S-spored, spores obliquely 1 -seriate, continuous, hyaline (rarely 
tinged' brown), elliptical, epi.spore smooth or rough; paraphyses present. Growing 
on the ground. ’ ’ — Massee. 
5(58. Peziza vesiculosa Bull. (L., ve.'iicula, a little bladder). — “Clustered, often 
distorted from mutual pressure, sessile but more or less narrowed at the base, 
globose and closed at Arst, then exj)anding but the .margin usually remaining 
more or less incurved and somewhat notched ; disc pale bromi, externally brownish 
and eoarselv granular from the iiresence of minute irregular warts, Ijin. to 2-lin. 
(3 to 7 cm.) across. Excipulum parenchymatous, cells irregularly polygonal. 
