242 Mas see. — A Monograph of the Geoglosseae. 
n. 420; Karsten , Fung. Fenn. n. 451; Roumeg ., Fung. Gall. Select, 
n. 63; Vize, Micro.-Fung. n. 481. 
Hab. — On damp ground among grass, &c. 
Distr. — Britain, Ireland ; Portugal ( Henriquez ) ; France ; Denmark ; 
Sweden ; Germany ; Holland ; Belgium ; Austria ; Switzerland ; Italy ; 
Finland; Mauritius {Telfair) ; Bermuda (Devonshire marsh, Chal- 
lenger Exp.)) New Zealand {Colenso) ; Java; Victoria {Miiller)) 
United States (Sandlake, N.Y., Peck) New England; Massachusetts; 
Louisiana, Hale , n. 3661); Franz Josef Archipelago (Cape Flora, 
alt. 60 ft., Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Exp., coll. Fisher). 
The present species, in its typical form, is readily known by the 
densely velvety texture of every part of the fungus. The typical 
number of septa in the spore is 15, but not unfrequently there are 
fewer in some of the spores of a plant having as a rule the normal 
number, and in one instance I have seen two of the spores in an 
ascus with 19 septa each, the remaining six having the usual 15 septa. 
Persoon's var. capitata is not a constant variety, nor even a constant 
form ; it was established by Persoon upon two of the figures in 
Schmidel’s plate which occur in a long series showing the variation 
of form of the ascigerous portion, which passes gradually from the 
most usual, lanceolate, through ovate, shortly clavate, obovate, and 
subglobose. 
Form americanum. 
Spores 100-125 x 5-6 j u; usually 7-9-septate, pale brown; cystidia 
or spines scarcely longer than the asci, hence the hymenium appears 
to be almost glabrous when seen under a lens. 
Syn.- — Geoglossum hirsutum , var. americanum , Cooke, Mycogr. 3, 
fig. 1, 1875. 
Geoglossum americanum , Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 151, 1889. 
Hab. — On the ground among grass, &c. 
Distr. — Britain (Penzance; Glasgow, Bot. Garden; Twycross, 
Berkeley)) France (. Desm ., Crypt. France, sdr. i, n. 420, some of the 
specimens); Germany {Holl, Schmidt , and Kunze , Deutschl. Schwamme, 
xcvii, some of the specimens ; Mougeot and Nestler, Stirpes Crypt. 94, 
also 95, the lower specimen; Ratzeburg, Rudolphi) ; Hungary 
(. Thiimen , Fung. Austr. n. 927); Madeira {Lowe)) Cuba {Wright)) 
Mauritius ; Victoria ; Queensland ; United States (N. York, Gerard , 
n. 53 ; Louisiana, Hale). 
