Mas see. — A Monograph of the Geoglosseae. 257 
Distinguished from all known species by the dark velvety stem. 
The spores are thinner than in S.flavida , and I have not been able 
to demonstrate the existence of an investing mucilaginous sheath ; 
this however is best seen in fresh specimens, and is of no specific 
value. 
Type specimen examined. 
Spathularia nigripes, Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 16 1, 1889. 
Ascigerous portion ovoid-oblong, 1 cm. long, laterally compressed, 
rugose, undulate, yellowish or flesh-colour, apex rosy or rufescent ; 
stem cylindrical or compressed, 1 cm. long, base inflated, slightly 
rugulose, glabrous, violet-brown ; flesh soft, white, smell pleasant ; 
spores acicular, 50 /* long, guttulate, hyaline. 
Syn. — Mitrula nigripes , Qudlet, Suppl. xi, n, tab. vii, f. 3, Assoc. 
Fran^, 1883. 
Hab. — Caespitose or scattered in sandy woods. 
Distr. — Maritime Alps (Bar la). 
Qu 61 et suggested that the present species was allied to Mitrula 
rufa , but this resemblance is superficial only. Saccardo, on the other 
hand, thinks it may be Spathularia crispata , forma spathulata of 
Fuckel, Symb. Myc., Append, ii, 66. This again is meaningless, as 
no one has any idea as to what crispata is, since it was never 
described nor figured. 
Spathularia rufa, Swartz , Vet. Akad. Handl. 1812, p. 11 ; 
Coohe, Mycogr. 204, fig. 343, 1878; Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 162, 1889; 
Rehm, Kr.-Fl. n. 5879, 1896; not of Nees , Syst. 1 7 1 , tab. xvii, 
f. 156 B. 11. 
Gregarious, entire fungus 1-4 cm. high; ascigerous portion obovate, 
even, margin not crisped nor wavy, laterally compressed, decurrent 
down opposite sides of the stem, about 1 cm. high and 5-7 mm. broad, 
dingy rufous-orange, more or less powdered with lilac meal ; stem 
terete, usually more or less thickened at the base, reddish brown or 
bay. Asci clavate, apex narrowed, not blue with iodine, 100-130X 
10-12 fx; spores 8, arranged in a parallel fascicle, filiform-clavate, 
apex thickest, straight or slightly curved, multiguttulate then multi- 
septate, 60-70 x 2 fi; paraphyses slender, septate, sometimes branched, 
tips often curved, about 2 /u thick. 
Syn. — Mitrula lilacina , Qudlet, Enchir. 269, 1886. 
