282 Mas see. — A Monograph of the Geoglosseae. 
stem cylindrical, mostly equal throughout, minutely squamulose under 
a lens, or in some instances almost glabrous. Asci narrowly clavate, 
apex narrowed, pore blue with iodine, 115-130x12/1; spores 
irregularly 2 -seriate above, 1 -seriate below, hyaline, smooth, narrowly 
cylindrical, ends slightly narrowed, multiguttulate, then becoming 
3“5“7’ se ptate, usually slightly curved, 28-40 x 5 /* ; paraphyses 
numerous, cylindrical, septate, not at all or very slightly thickened at 
the tips, which are agglutinated together. 
Syn . — Geoglossum microsporum , Cke. and Peck, 25th Rep. N.Y. 
State Mus. 97, 1872; Cke., Mycogr. 1, f. n, 1875 (spore-measure- 
ment wrong); Phil., Brit. Disc. 39, 1887 (spore-measurement wrong). 
Leptoglossum microsporum , Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 157, 1889. 
Exs. — Desm.j Crypt. France, sdr. 1, n. 421 (called Geoglossum 
glabrum , Pers.). 
Hab.— On the ground, under ferns, &c. 
Distr. — Britain, France (Eesm., Crypt. France, n. 421, called 
Geoglossum glabrum, P.), United States (Greig, N.Y., Peck , n. 115). 
The above diagnosis is drawn up from the type specimen sent 
from the United States by Peck, and on which the species is founded. 
In the original description in the 25th Rep. N.Y. State Mus. p. 97, 
the spore measurements are •ooo7'-ooi3 / long. 
Some time afterwards Cooke again published the same species in 
Mycographia 8, f. n, as Geoglossum microsporum , C. and P., 
adding, ‘Figured from specimens communicated by C. H. Peck/ 
I have examined every specimen sent to Cooke by Peck from 
America, but find nothing agreeing with Cooke’s measurements, 
which I imagine to represent an uncorrected mistake, as the figures 
of the spores given by Cooke do not justify the statement. Phillips, 
in Brit. Disc., p. 39, has unfortunately given Cooke’s incorrect 
diagnosis from Mycographia instead of the approximately correct 
one from the 25th Report. It is evident that Phillips had not 
examined the specimens; finally, if Mr. C. Bucknall’s specimen 
found at Hanham, Clifton, has spores 10/x thick, it is not G. viicro- 
sporum , but a new species which would naturally be called Mitrula 
microspora , Massee. 
Var. tremellosa, Mass., Brit. Fung.-Fl. iv, 484, 1895. 
Somewhat tremelloid when living; ascigerous portion subcom- 
pressed, hollow, stem smooth, in other respects conforming with the 
typical form. 
