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Hab. — On the ground. 
Distr. — New Zealand (Wellington, Travers ). 
Superficially resembling Persoon s capitate or globose form of 
G. hirsutum , but clearly distinguished by the longer spores and the 
almost straight paraphyses. 
Geoglossum glutinosum, Pers. f Obs. Myc. i, n, 1796; Che., 
Mycogr. 5, f. 6, 1875; Phil., Brit. Disc. 38, 1887; Sacc., Syll. viii, 
n. 136, 1889; Massee , Brit. Fung.-Fl. iv, 490, figs. 8-10 on p. 188, 
1895; Rehm ., Kr.-Fl. n. 5871, f. 7, p. 1145,1896. (PI. XIII, Figs. 
66, 67.) 
Gregarious, entire fungus 3-6 cm. high, black, sometimes with 
a tinge of olive or brown, more or less viscid; ascigerous portion 
lanceolate, glabrous, terete or compressed, 5-8 mm. broad, usually 
about -§• the length of the entire fungus ; stem cylindrical, rather 
slender, viscid, often brownish black. Asci subcylindrical, apex 
narrowed, pore blue with iodine, 210-240 x 12-14 /z; spores 8, 
arranged in an imperfectly parallel fascicle in the ascus, or inclined 
to become irregularly 2-3-seriate, linear, almost cylindrical, ends 
obtuse, pale brown, translucent, generally straight, for a long time 
3-septate, sometimes passing to 5-7'Septate; paraphyses slender, 
septate ; tips brown, varying from abruptly piriform to globose, 7-9 /z 
diameter. 
Syn. — Geoglossum viscosum , Pers., Comm. Fung. Clav. 38, 1797; 
Cooke, Mycogr. 8, f. 10, 1875; Phil., Brit. Disc. 37, 1887; Sacc., 
Syll. viii, n. 137, 1889; Massee, Brit. Fung.-Fl. iv, 490, 1895; Rehm, 
Kr.-Fl., n. 5870, 1896. 
Geoglossum glutinosum , forma minor , Sacc., Mich, i, 444, 1877 ; 
Sacc., Syll. viii, under n. 136, 1889 (ascophore hardly 1 cm. long). 
Geoglossum Muller i, Cooke, Mycogr. 4, f. 2, 1875 (spores and 
paraphyses incorrectly represented); Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 138, 1889. 
Exs. — Karsten, Fung. Fenn. n. 450; Roumeg ., Fung. Gall, 
n. 4044; Mougeot and Nestler, Stirp. Crypt, n. 780; Desm ., Crypt. 
France, s 6 r. 1, n. 422; Klotzsch-Rabenh., Herb. Myc., ed. ii, n. 319. 
Hab. — On the ground among grass, moss, &c. 
Distr. — Britain, Portugal ( Henriquez ), France, Sweden, Belgium, 
Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Finland, Australia (Port Philip, 
French ; Melbourne, Muller , Reader). 
The chief characteristics of the present species, as defined above, 
