278 Mas see. — A Monograph of the Geoglosseae. 
also the flesh, base brown, 4-5 mm. long by § mm. thick. Asci 
cylindric-clavate, the minute pore blue with iodine, 130-150 x 8-12 \x ; 
spores subcylindrical, ends rounded, tinged yellow, minutely granular, 
2 - seriate, 15-18x6-7 n; paraphyses clavate at the tips, septate, 
3- 4 ix thick, containing ochraceous granules. 
Hah. — On fallen larch leaves. 
Distr.- — N. Italy. 
A near ally of Mitrula cucullata , Fr., the spherical headed form 
of which it closely resembles superficially, but is clearly distinct in 
the very different form and size of the spores. Bresadola states that 
as far as he has seen, the ascigerous portion is constantly globose. 
Not examined. 
Mitrula gracilis, Karsten, Revis. Mon. no, 1885; Sacc., Syll. 
viii, n. 105, 1889. 
Entire fungus 2-2*5 cm. high ; ascigerous portion variable in shape, 
generally oblong or ovoid, obtuse, fragile, glabrous, orange-brown 
when dry, 1-2 mm. long ; stem filiform, equal, flexuous, deep flesh- 
colour, 2 cm. high. Asci sublanceolate, 60-85 x 5-6 /i ; spores 
somewhat 2 -seriate, fusoid, straight, 8-12x2 fx ; paraphyses filiform. 
Hah.— — Among dead Hypnum . 
Distr. — Finland (Knjascha, on the White Sea, Karsten). 
Karsten considers the present species as occupying a position 
intermediate between Mitrula elegans, Berk., and M. phalloides, Chev. 
(= Mitrula laricina , Mass., of this work). 
Mitrula sclerotipes, Boud ., Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxiv, 309, 
pi. iv, f. 5, 1877 (the specific name was written ‘ sclerotipus ’ by the 
author); Cke., Mycogr. 220, f. 370, 1879; Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 108, 
1889. 
Entire fungus rusty yellow, 1*5-2 cm. high, springing from an 
irregularly elliptical, yellowish sclerotium 8-10 mm. long ; ascigerous 
portion clavate, more or less wrinkled, sharply differentiated from the 
stem, solid, glabrous, 4-7 mm. high, about 3 mm. thick; stem solid, 
even, glabrous, slender, sometimes dividing into 2-3 branches, each 
bearing an ascigerous portion at its apex, whitish and slightly 
thickened at the point where it springs from the sclerotium. Asci 
narrowly clavate, apex narrowed, pore blue with iodine, 50 X 4-5 n ; 
spores 8, irregularly 2 -seriate above, 1 -seriate below, hyaline, con- 
