258 Mas see. — A Monograph of the Geoglosseae. 
Exs . — Rabenh., Fung. Eur. n. 235 (called Spathulea rufa , Nees); 
Roum ., Fung. Gall. Exs. n. 2075. 
Hab. — On the ground in woods and shady places. 
Distr. — Germany, France. 
Distinguished from allies by its smaller size, dingy orange-brown 
colour, and in having the ascigerous portion even, and more or less 
powdered with lilac meal. A very fine series of specimens of this 
species are in the Kew Herbarium, having the following on the paper 
on which they are mounted : ‘ Spathulea bulbosa , Rud. Herb. Neuhoff, 
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, in pinetis. Dr. F. Rudolphi.’ 
Spathularia Neesii, Bres ., Fung. Trident. 66, tab. lxxii, fig. 3, 
1881 ; Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 163, 1889; Rehm , Kr.-Fl. n. 5878, 1896. 
Ascigerous portion ovoid, sphaeroid, or spathulate, laterally com- 
pressed, decurrent down opposite sides of the stem, even or rugulose, 
margin wavy, gelatinous-fleshy, whitish tan then lurid ochraceous, 
somewhat egg-yellow when dry, 1*5-2 cm. high, 1-1-5 cm * broad; 
stem roundish or somewhat compressed, even, becoming rugulose, 
glabrous, ochraceous-fuscous, apex paler, stuffed, 1-5-2 cm. long, 
3-4 mm. thick; flesh similarly coloured, inodorous, slightly acid. 
Ascus fusoid-clavate, not blue with iodine, 1 10-150 x 12-18 fx ; 
spores filiform-clavate, apex thickest, multiguttulate, slightly curved, 
tinged yellow, 60-80x1-5-2-5^, with an outer mucilaginous coat, 
tinged yellow, 8 in an ascus, arranged in a parallel fascicle ; para- 
physes numerous, branched, filiform, tips curved, about 2 n thick. 
Syn. — Spathularia rufa , Nees, Syst. 171, tab. xvii, f. 156 B. (not of 
Swartz nor Cooke); Pers., Myc. Eur. i, 198 ; Gillet, Disc. France, 26, 
with fig. 
Spathularia rufa , var. badipes , Pat. Tab. Anal. Fung. 70, f. 161. 
Mitrula rufa , var. Qu£l. xi, Suppl. p. 19. 
Hob. — On pine leaves, &c., densely gregarious. 
Distr. — Germany, France, Italy. 
Bresadola has shown that the fungus called Spathularia rufa by 
Nees is not the fungus so called by Swartz, and further considers that 
the fungus described above is the one Nees had in view. The above 
description and synonymy is from Bresadola. 
