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portion about half the entire length of the fungus, clavate or sub- 
cylindrical, hollow, often compressed, terminating abruptly and 
irregularly below, glabrous, rather slimy when wet; stem thinner 
than the ascigerous portion, nearly cylindrical, minutely squamulose 
or granulose ; flesh tinged green. Asci narrowly clavate, apex a little 
narrowed, pore blue with iodine, 100-130x11-12 y . ; spores 8, 
irregularly 2 -seriate above, 1 -seriate below, hyaline, smooth, narrowly 
elliptical, ends rather acute, often slightly curved, 3-5-guttulate, then 
3-septate, 13-18x5 fj>; paraphyses slender, septate, straight, apex 
clavate and tinged green. 
Syn . — C lav aria serpentina , O. F. MuelL, Zool. Dan. Prod. 256, 1776 ; 
Schrank, Baiersche FI. ii, 571, 1789. 
Geoglossum viride , Pers., Comm. 40, 1797 ; Fries, Syst. Myc. i, 489, 
1821; Cke., Mycogr. 9, fig. 14, 1875 (spores too large); Phil., Brit. 
Disc. 32, 1887. 
Clavaria mitrata , /3 viridis, Holmsk., Fung. Dan. 24, with fig., 1798. 
Clavaria viridis , Schrad., Flor. Dan. tab. 1258, f. 1, 1791. 
Leotia geoglossoides, Corda, Icon. Fung, iii, 37, fig. 94, 1839. 
Leotia viridis , Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 284, 1869-70. 
Mitrula viridis , Karst., Myc. Fenn. i, 29, 1871 ; Massee, Brit. Fung.- 
Fl. iv, 482, 1895 ; Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 124, 1889. 
Leptoglossum viride , Cke., Mycog. 250, 1879. 
Microglossum viride , Gillet, Disc. France, 25, with fig., 1879 ; Rehm, 
Kr.-FL, n. 5866, 1896. 
Exs. — Rad., Fung. Eur. n. 524, 1625; Rehm, Ascom. 151 ; Phil., 
Elv. Brit. 54 ; Vize, Brit. Fung. 482 ; Libert, Crypt. Ard. Fasc. ii, 
n. 123; Klotzsch, Herb. Myc. ed. Rab. n. 239; Fckl., Fung. Rhen. 
n. 1140; Cke., Fung. Brit. ed. ii, n. 395; Roum ., Fung. Gall. Exs. 
n. 2378; j Desm., Cr. France, sdr. i, n. 425; Moug. and Nest., Stirp. 
Cr., n. 994; Kunze, Fung. Sel. n. 196; Karsten, Fung. Fenn. n. 449; 
Westend, Herb. Crypt. Belg. ( Crepin ), n. 863 ; Ellis and Everh., N. 
Amer. Fung. ed. ii, n. 2030. 
Hab.— On the ground among grass and moss, in damp places. 
Distr. — Britain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, 
Finland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, United States (West 
Chester, Pa., Everhart), Sikkim (Sachoong, 8,000 ft., Yeumtong, 
1,200 ft., Dr. [now Sif\ /. D. Hooker). 
Variable to some extent in colour, depending on locality and season, 
ranging from yellowish green, through verdigris, to dark olive-green, 
