Massee. — A Monograph of the Geoglosseae. 273 
and with well-developed, decurrent lobes on opposite sides of the 
stem, the present species superficially resembles Spathularia clavata, 
from which species it is readily distinguished by the very different 
spores. Bulliard’s specific name is antedated by that of Villars, as 
given above ; the date given by Saccardo for Bulliard’s work is that 
of the last-named author’s Hist, des PI. Ven. et suspectes de la France, 
and not the Hist, des Champ, which forms the second part of the 
Herb, de la France, dating 1791-98. 
Form alba. 
Entirely white, head subglobose ; otherwise as in the typical form ; 
spores often 1 -septate. 
Syn. — Mitrula alba, W. G. Smith, Grev. i, 136, pi. 10, lower fig., 
1872; Cooke, Mycogr. 102, f. 177, 1875; Phil., Brit. Disc. 27, 1887 ; 
Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 103, 1889. 
Mitrula phalloides, v. alba , Massee, Brit. Fung.-Fl. iv, 482, 1895. 
Hab. — Among damp or submerged dead leaves. 
Distr. — England (East Budleigh, Perceval ; Carlisle, Dr. Carlyle ), 
Italy (. Bagnis ). 
Mitrula vitellina, Sacc., Misc. Mycol. ii. 15, 1885; Sacc., Syll. 
viii, n. 115, 1889; Rehrn , Kr.-Fl. n. 5865, 1896. (PI. XII, Figs. 3-4#.) 
Ascigerous portion subcylindrical, terete or somewhat compressed, 
apex narrowed, glabrous, bright egg-yellow, 1-1-5 cm - long, 2-5-3 mm. 
thick; stem somewhat compressed, white, fibrillose, stuffed, 1.5 cm. 
long, 2-5-3 mm - thick, substance spongy-fleshy, white. Asci narrowly 
clavate, apex rounded or inclined to be truncate, not blue with iodine, 
75-80 x 7-8 /x ; spores 8, obliquely 1 -seriate, or inclined to be 2-seriate 
above, continuous, smooth, elliptical, often slightly inaequilateral, with 
a very slight yellow tinge, 7-8 X 4 ft ; paraphyses slender, septate, 
slightly thickened upwards, rare. 
Syn. — Geoglossum ( Microglossum ) vitellinum, Bresadola, Revue 
Myc. iv, 212, 1882 ; Bres., Fung. Tridentini, 41, tab. xlv, f. 1, 1881. 
Hab. — Alpine pine woods. 
Distr. — South Tirol (Valle di Rabbi, Bresadola). 
Almost similar in habit arid colour, except the stem, to Clavaria 
ligula, with which it has probably been confounded. Intermediate 
between Geoglossum and Mitrula (Bres.). 
Specimens from Bresadola examined. 
