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Hab. — Swampy ground. 
Distr. — United States (Sandlake and Forestburgh, N.Y., Peck ; 
Gainsville, Fla., Ravenel, n. 89; New England, Murray, n. 5339; 
Lower Carolina, Curtis, n. 1227), England (a specimen from 
Sowerby’s herbarium, now at Kew, called Geoglossum dijforme ), 
France (Montmorency, Boudier). 
Distinguished among the glabrous species more especially by the 
paraphyses, which are longer than the asci, and strongly curved or 
spirally twisted at the thickened, coloured tips. Neglecting the 
spines, this species is almost indistinguishable from some forms of 
G. hirsutum. 
Form umbratile. 
Scattered or gregarious, elongato-clavate, 3-6 cm. high, 2-3 mm. 
thick, glabrous, even, longitudinally striate when dry, black. Asci 
cylindrical, very shortly stipitate, apex obtuse, 160x20/*; spores 
8, 2-3-seriate, rod-shaped-fusoid or somewhat clavate, 7-septate, not 
constricted, dusky, 80 x 5 /* ; paraphyses slender, 4 /* thick, tips pale 
brown, strongly circinate. 
Syn. — Geoglossum umbratile , Sacc., Mich, i, 444, 1879; Sacc., Syll. 
n. 146, 1889. 
Hab . — Swampy ground. 
Distr. — Italy (Bizzozero). 
As suggested by Saccardo, the present differs from G. Peckianum , 
mainly in the 7-septate spores. 
Form Barlae. 
Blackish- olive, 3-5 cm. high; ascigerous portion compressed, 
glabrous, somewhat tongue-shaped, 1-2 cm. broad ; stem paler, 
blackish furfuraceous at the apex. Hymenium blackish-olive, even, not 
at all or scarcely viscid in rainy weather, well defined from the stem. 
Asci fusiform-clavate, base narrowed and wavy, 300-320x18-20/*; 
spores 8, umber, linear-clavate, straight or slightly curved, 7-septate, 
85-95 X 6-7 /* ; paraphyses brownish, simple or branched at the base, 
septate, apex incrassated, torulose. 
Syn. — Geoglossum Barlae, Boudier, Soc. Mycol. France, iv, 7 6, 
1888; Sacc., Syll. viii, in a note under n. 146, 1889. 
Iiab. — On clay ground among grass. 
Distr . — France (Nice, Bar la). 
