26 o Massee. — A Monograph of the Geoglosseae. 
Vibrissea truncorum, Fries, Syst. Myc. ii, 31, 1823; Phil., 
Brit. Disc. 316, pi. x, f. 60, 1887; Phil., Trans. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), 
ser. 2, ii, 5, pi. 1, f. 1-9, 1881 ; Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 167, 1889 ; 
Rehm , Kr.-Fl. n. 5888, 1896 ; Massee, Brit. Fung.-Fl. iv, 487, 
%s. 32-35, p. 188, 1895. (PI. XII, Figs. 15-170.) 
Gregarious or scattered, often in clusters of 2-3 specimens, entire 
fungus 1-2 cm. high ; ascigerous portion rather fleshy, orbicular, 
slightly convex, margin thick, free, and inclined to be incurved, disk 
glabrous, even, usually clear orange-red, sometimes yellow or brownish 
red, minutely silky with the protruding spores at maturity, 3-5 mm. 
across; stem 6-15 mm. long, 1-5-3 mm. thick, round, almost equal 
throughout, densely covered with coloured obtuse-septate hyphae 
spreading at right angles to the stem ; when these hyphae are arranged 
in clusters the stem appears to be minutely squamulose, varying in 
colour from w r hite to pale grey, brownish,- or wdth an olive tinge. Asci 
very long, narrowly cylindrical, apex slightly narrowed, not blue with 
iodine, 225-250x6 ju. ; spores 8, filiform, hyaline, multiguttulate then 
multiseptate, 200x1 ju, arranged in a parallel fascicle in the ascus 
paraphyses very slender, sometimes branched, tips slightly thickened 
and often tinged yellow. 
Syn. — Leotia truncorum, Alb. and Schz., Consp. Fung. Nisk. 297, 
tab. 3, f. 2, 1805; Pers., Myc. Eur. i, 199, 1822. 
Leotia clavus , Pers., Myc. Eur. i, 200, tab. xi, fig. 9, 1822. 
Vibrissea Margarita, White, Scottish Nat. ii, 218, 1874; Phil., Brit. 
Disc. 317 ; Phil., Trans. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), ser. 2, ii, 6, pi. 1, f. 10-16, 
1881 ; Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 170, 1889. 
Vibrissea truncorum , Fr., var. albipes, Peck, 44th Rep. N.Y. State 
Mus. 37, 1891. 
Exs. — Phil., Elv. Brit. n. 4 and 4 bis', Roumeg., Fung. Sel. Gall, 
n. 536 ; Desm., Crypt. France, s£r. 1, n. 830 ; Moug. and Nest., Stirp. 
Crypt, n. 781 ; Ellis, N. Amer. Fung. n. 134. 
Hab. — On decaying and submerged wx>od, branches, and leaves, 
principally in subalpine districts. 
Distr. — England, Scotland, Wales, France, Germany, Italy, 
Hungary (Hazslinszky) , Finland, Belgium, Switzerland (Gadmenthal, 
G. Nicholson ), Portugal ( Henriquez ), United States (New England, 
Sprague ; N. Jersey, Ellis ; Cascade Mountains, Dr. Lyall). 
A truly aquatic fungus, completing its entire development only when 
entirely submerged, and attaining the largest size and most brilliant 
