26 2 Mas see . — A Monograph of the Geoglosseae. 
Most closely allied to Vibrissea lutea , Peck, under which species the 
two are compared. 
Specimens from Persoon examined. 
Vibrissea lutea, Peck , 25th Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 97, pi. i, 
figs. 19-23, 1872. (PI. XII, Figs. 5 - 7 .) 
Gregarious, 1*5-2 -5 cm. high; ascigerous portion subglobose, 
smooth, margin often lobed, indexed, free, concave below, 4-8 mm. 
across, yellow ; stem nearly equal, even, smooth, solid, longitudinally 
wrinkled when dry, rather deep yellow. Asci clavate, apex rather 
acutely narrowed, not blue with iodine, 1 15-130 x 12 /z ; spores 8, 
arranged in a parallel fascicle in the ascus, filiform and slightly 
thickened near the apex, often multiguttulate, 80-90x1*5/*; para- 
physes numerous, delicately septate, not thickened at the strongly 
curved tips, hyaline, longer than the asci, about 2 /z thick. 
Syn. — Cudonia lutea , Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 166, 1889. 
Hab. — Prostrate, mossy trunks of trees and among fallen leaves in 
woods. 
Distr. — United States (North Elba, Peck). 
Specimen from Professor Peck examined. The spores often 
contain a row of oil-globules, and in some instances there are 
indications of septa. 
Cooke, in Mycogr. 97, has quoted this species as a synonym of 
his Leotia circinans ( Vibrissea circinans, Hazsl.) ; this however is 
a mistake, the present species being quite distinct in the longer spores 
and form and colour of the ascophore. 
Vibrissea ochroleuca, Massee. (PI. XIII, Figs. 70-72.) 
Scattered, somewhat gelatinous, entire fungus 2-5-3 cm * high; 
ascigerous portion pileate, fleshy, undulate, margin involute, pale 
ochraceous, glabrous, up to 1 cm. across ; stem about 2-5 cm. high 
and 3 mm. thick, glabrous, white, rather flexuous. Asci clavate, 
apex narrowed, not blue with iodine, narrowed below into a long, 
slender pedicel, 100-1 10 x 8-9 /z ; spores 8, filiform, hyaline, slightly 
curved, at first 3-septate, then 5-7-septate, 25-30x2 y, arranged in 
a parallel fascicle in the ascus ; paraphyses very slender, septate, often 
branched, tips not thickened. 
Syn. — Leotia ochroleuca , Cooke and Harkness, Grev. ix, 8, 1880; 
Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 2515, 1889. 
Hab. — On damp ground. 
