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the entire length of the fungus, not sharply differentiated from the 
stem below, glabrous, cylindric-clavate or variously deformed, 3-8 mm. 
broad, sometimes laterally compressed ; stem rather slender, minutely 
squamulose, often wavy. Asci cylindric-clavate, apex narrowed, pore 
blue with iodine, 165-210 x 18-20 /i ; spores 8, arranged in a parallel 
fascicle in the ascus, elongate-clavate, straight or very slightly curved, 
clear brown at first, then dark smoky brown, 75-85 x 8-9 /z, 7-septate, 
very slightly constricted at the septa; paraphyses septate, becoming 
gradually clavate upwards for the upper half, septa often rather close 
together near the apex, and constricted at the septa, giving a monili- 
form appearance, brown, 7-9 /z thick at the apex, which may be 
straight or slightly curved. 
Syn. — Clavaria ophioglossoides, Linn., Sp. PI., ed. i, v, 2, p. 1182, 
1 753 (fide Saccardo). 
Geoglossum ophioglossoides , Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 141, 1889; Rehm, 
Krypt.-Flora, n. 5872, 1896. 
Geoglossum sphagnophilum , Ehrh., Sylv. Myc. 30, 1818; Sacc., 
Syll. viii, n. 142, 1889. 
Geoglossum ophioglossoides , var. sphagnophilum, Rehm, Krypt.-Flora, 
n. 5872, 1896. 
Geoglossum australe , Cooke, Mycogr. 6, f. 8, 1875 ; Sacc., Syll. viii, 
n. 144, 1889. 
Geoglossum simile , Peck, 25th Report N. Y. State Mus. 97, 1872 
(in the 29th Rep., Peck himself says this species is identical with 
G. glabrum). 
Exs. — Holl, Schmidt, and Kunze , Deutschl. Schw. n. xcviii; Ellis 
and Everh., N. Amer. Fung. s 6 r. 2, n. 2031; Jack , Leiner, u. Sitzen- 
berger , Krypt. Badens. n. 55; Moug. and Nest., Stirpes Crypt. 684, 
also the upper specimen in n. 95 of the same authors (the lower 
specimen is G. glabrum, form americanum, Cooke) ; Phil., Elv. Brit. 
Fasc. ii, n. 55 ; Rehm , Ascom. n. 503 a and b ; Roum ., Fung. Select. 
Gall. n. 262 ; Klotzsch-Rabenh., Herb. Myc. n. 238 ; Kars ten, Fung. 
Fenn. n. 452 ; Fuckel, Fung. Rhen. n. 1142; Sydow, Myc. March, 
n. 285; Rabenh- Winter, Fung. Eur. n. 2845. 
Hab . — On the ground among grass, &c. 
Distr.— Britain, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, 
Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Sikkim 
[Dr. [now Sir ] J. D. Hooker ), Tasmania [Archer), Victoria, 
Queensland, United States. 
