272 Mas see. — A Monograph of the Geoglosseae. 
white, or with a tinge of pink or yellow, becoming hollow. Asci 
narrowly clavate, apex narrowed, the minute pore slightly blue with 
iodine, 1 00-130 x 8-9 /z ; spores 8, obliquely 1 -seriate or often irregu- 
larly 2 -seriate near the apex, hyaline, smooth, elliptical ends blunt, 
usually slightly curved, often becoming distinctly 1 -septate at maturity, 
12-18 x 3-5-4 m ; paraphyses septate, sometimes branched, slightly 
thickened at the tip, about 2 /x thick. 
Syn. — Helvetia laricina , Villars, FI. Dauph. iii, 1045, tab. lvi (quoted 
lv in text), 1786-89. 
Clavaria phalloides , Bull., Champ. France, 214, pi. 465, f. 3, 
1791-98. 
Clavaria epiphylla , Dickson, Plant. Crypt, iii, 22, tab. ix, f. 10, 
1 7 93* 
Leotia laricina , Pers., Syn. Fung. 614, 1801. 
Leotia Ludwigii , Pers., Syn. Fung. 61 1, tab. 3, f. 13, 1801. 
Leotia Dicksoni , Pers., Syn. Fung. 612, 1801. 
Leotia Bulliardi , Pers., Syn. Fung. 612, 1801. 
Mitrula paludosa , Fries, Syst. Myc. i, 491, 1821 ; Phil., Brit. Disc. 
28, pi. ii, f. 6, 1887 ; Cooke, Mycogr. 101, fig. 175, 1879. 
Mitrula phalloides , Chev., FI. Paris, 114, 1826-27; Sacc., Syll. viii, 
n. 99, 1889; Massee, Brit. Fung.-Fl. iv, 481, figs. 29 and 30 on 
p. 188, 1895 ; Rehm, Kr.-Fl. n. 5860, figs. 1-4 on p. 1143, 1896. 
Leotia uliginosa , Grev., Scot. Crypt. FI. tab. 312, 1823. 
Mitrula paludosa , var. pachyceps , Karst., Revis. Mon. Ascom. Finl. 
no, 1885. 
Exs.—Roum ., Fung. Gall. 3722 ; Flor. Exs. Austr.-Hung. n. 1975 ; 
Phil., Elv. Brit. n. 2; Rehm , Ascom. n. 601; Rabenh. -Winter, Fung. 
Eur. n. 2844; FckL, Fung. Rhen. n. 1236; Klotzsch , Herb. Myc. ed. 
Rabenh. n. 132; Roum., Fung. Sel. Gall. n. 160; Zopf and Sydow, 
Myc. March, n. 31, with fig.; Karst., Myc. Fenn. n. 24; Thiimen , 
Myc. Univ. n. iii ; Moug. and Nestler, Stirp. Crypt, n. 685; Desm ., 
Crypt. France, s6r. 1, n. 606; Berk., Brit. Fungi, n. 278; Flor. Gall, 
and Germ. Exs. n. 796; Rav., Fung. Carol. Exs. n. 36; Ellis , N. 
Amer. Fung. n. 433. 
Hah . — On decaying leaves and rotten wood in damp places, or 
when floating in water. 
Distr. — Britain, France, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Den- 
mark, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, Russia, United States. 
When exceptionally large and having the pileus laterally compressed, 
