252 Massee. — A Monograph of the Geoglosseae . 
Again, Boudier considers the present form to be distinguished from 
G. Peckianum more especially by the 7 -septate spores. The blackish- 
olive, broader ascigerous portion is the only tangible distinction 
between the present and form umbratile. 
Geoglossum pumilum, Winter , Grev. xv, 91, 1887 ; Sacc. , Syll. 
viii, n. 153, 1889. 
Small, blackish ; ascigerous portion ovate or somewhat deformed, 
capitate, distinct, slightly and irregularly compressed, perfectly smooth, 
up to 3 mm. long, and apparently viscid ; stem subcylindrical, often 
slightly compressed and grooved, up to 6 mm. long, furnished with 
squarrose fascicles of brownish hairs. Asci cylindric-clavate, sessile, 
8-spored, 230-255 x 25-27 ft ; paraphyses filiform, expanding up- 
wards into a thick brownish apex up to 10 ft broad, sometimes septate 
towards the apex, straight ; spores cylindrical, slightly narrowed and 
rounded at both ends, somewhat curved, generally 15-septate, very 
slightly constricted at the septa, brown, 94-1 10 x 7 ft. 
Hab. — On clay ground. 
Distr. — Brazil (Sao Francisco, Prov. Sta. Catharina, Ule , n. 338). 
The above is Winter’s diagnosis of the species. 
Geoglossum viseosulum, Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 140, 1889. 
Black, viscid, glabrous ; ascigerous portion gradually attenuated 
into the stem, the fertile surface divided into quadrate areolae ; these 
areolae are convex when moist and concave when dry. Asci clavate, 
apex narrowed ; spores 8, cylindrical, brown, 3-5-septate, somewhat 
shorter than the ascus ; paraphyses septate, apex capitate straight or 
curved. 
Syn. — Cibalocoryne viscosula , Hazsl., Ung. Akad. d. Wiss. xi, 8, 
1881. 
Hab. — On the ground among moss. 
Distr. — Hungary (Hazslinszky). 
Apparently a very distinct species, although the diagnosis un- 
fortunately leaves something to be desired. The areolation of the 
hymenial surface is the most tangible feature mentioned, and, if 
constant, will afford an easy means for distinguishing the species, or 
may even prove to be of generic value, thus forming a connecting link 
with the Morchella group ; but until the species is better known, it is 
perhaps best in Geoglossum , as placed by Saccardo. A more or less 
