250 Mas see. — A Monograph of the Geoglosseae. 
Var. lignicolum. (PI. XII, Figs. 1, 2.) 
Gregarious on rotten wood, 4-5 cm. high, entirely black with 
a decided purple tinge; ascigerous portion narrowly clavate, about 
•J the entire length, about 3 mm. thick, round or compressed, 
becoming imperfectly hollow, glabrous, dry, passing gradually into 
the slender, usually crooked, equal, minutely velvety stem. Asci 
clavate, apex rounded and tinged blue with iodine, often curved, 
150X15/X; spores linear-clavate, apex thickest, brown, translucent, 
usually very slightly curved, 7-septate, arranged in a parallel fascicle 
in the ascus, 8 in number, 80-85 X 5~6 /* ; paraphyses straight, septate, 
clavate, apex tinged olive and about 6 fx thick. 
Syn. — Geoglossum lignicolum , Massee, Journ. Bot. xxxiv, 145, 
pi. 357, f. 19-20, 1896. 
Hab. — On rotten wood. 
Distr. — T asmania [A rcher). 
Growing on rotten wood along with the type specimen of Miirula 
vinosa , Berk., which it resembles superficially. 
Having again examined the present fungus, I come to the con- 
clusion that it must be reduced to a variety of G. glabrum , differing 
mainly in the purple tinge of the ascophore, and the less distinctly 
moniliform paraphyses. The spores are of the characteristic glabrum 
type. 
Geoglossum Peckianum, Cooke , Hedw. 1875, p. 10; Cooke, 
Mycogr. 5, f. 5, 1875; Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 147, 1889. (PI. XII, 
figs- 42 , 43-) 
Gregarious or tufted, black, stem viscid, entire fungus 4-7 cm. high, 
glabrous; ascigerous portion narrowly lanceolate, somewhat com- 
pressed, narrowing below into the stem, but the termination distinctly 
defined, less than half the length of the entire fungus; stem very 
minutely squamulose, viscid. Asci narrowly elliptic-fusiform, apex 
narrowed, pore blue with iodine, about 180-200 x 18-20/x; spores 8, 
arranged in a parallel fuscicle in the ascus, clear brownish-umber, 
translucent, linear-fusoid or subclavate, ends slightly narrowed, some- 
times slightly curved, 7-septate at first, finally 15-septate at maturity, 
115-125x6-7 /x; paraphyses slender, septate, longer than the asci, 
tips brownish, slightly thickened, variously curved and twisted. 
Syn. — Geoglossum glutinosum , Peck, 25th Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 
97, 1872, not of Persoon. 
