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glabrum. Plant 3-7 cm. high ; spores narrowly clavate ; 
paraphyses clavate at the tip, constricted at the septa. 
Peekianum. Plant 4-7 cm. high ; paraphyses longer than 
the asci, tips curled. 
pnmilum. Plant up to 9 mm. long; spores 15-septate. 
viseosulum. Ascigerous portion pitted or alveolate. 
Heufleriamim. Entire plant 3-4 mm. high ; spores 3-septate. 
Geoglossnm hirsutum, Persoon, Comment. Fung. Clav. 37, 1797 ; 
Pers., Syn. Fung. 608, 1801 ; Fries., Syst. Myc. i, 488, 1821 ; Cooke, 
Mycogr. 3, f. 3, 1875; Phillips, Brit. Disc. 34, pi. 2, f. 9, 1887 ; 
Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 150, 1889 ; Massee, Brit. Fung.-Fl. iv, 492, 1895 ; 
Rehm, Kr.-Fl. n. 5876, 1896. (PL XII, Figs. 31, 31 a, 32.) 
Gregarious or caespitose ; entire fungus 4-7 cm. high, black, dry, 
everywhere densely velvety ; ascigerous portion J-J the length of the 
entire fungus, lanceolate, ovate, oblong, or almost globose, generally 
more or less compressed and longitudinally wrinkled, sometimes 
irregular in form and crooked, densely velvety, due to the projection 
of closely packed, pointed black hairs (cystidia), up to 1-5 cm. broad, 
scarcely or not at all differentiated from the equally velvety stem. 
Asci clavate, apex narrowed, pore blue with iodine, 160-220 x 18-20 fx; 
spores 8, arranged in a parallel fascicle in the ascus, linear, almost 
cylindrical, ends very slightly narrowed, multiguttulate, then 7- and 
finally 15-septate, often slightly curved, 1 10-150 x 5-6 light umber 
brown, translucent ; paraphyses slender, septate, tips brown, clavate, 
curved, slightly longer than the asci ; cystidia or spines numerous, 
straight-pointed, black and opaque, paler towards the base, narrowly 
fusiform, 8-10 /x thick. 
Syn. — Clavaria simplex hirsuta, Schmidel, Icon. Plant. 92, tab. xxv, 
1762. 
Clavaria ophioglossoides, Sowerby, Eng. Fung. tab. 83, 1797. 
Geoglossum hirsutum /3 capitatum, Pers., Syn. Fung. 608, 1801. 
Trichoglossum hirsutum, Boudier, Bull. Soc. Myc. i, no, 1885. 
Exs. — Holl, Schmidt, and Kunze, Deutschl. Schw., n. cxxii ; Moug. 
and Nest., Stirp. Crypt, n. 94 ; Crepin , Herb. Bot. Beige, n. 1084 ; 
Roum., Fung. Gall. n. 4043 ; Rabenh., Fung. Eur. n. 523 ; Klotzsch- 
Rabenh., Herb. Myc. n. 44 and 237 ; Sydow, Myc. March, n. 440 and 
1069 ; Fuckel, Fung. Rhen. n. 1141 ; Allescher and Schnabl, Fung. 
Bavar. 352 ; Cooke, Fung. Brit. n. 393 ; Desm., Crypt. France, sdr. 1, 
