288 Mas see. —A Monograph of the Geoglosseae . 
innate granules. Asci clavate, apex slightly narrowed, pore not blue 
with iodine, 150-200 x 10-12 ft; spores 8, irregularly 2 -seriate above, 
1 -seriate near the base of the ascus, hyaline, smooth, narrowly 
elliptical, ends rather pointed, straight or slightly curved, 3-6-guttulate, 
eventually 5-septate, 1 9-2 7 x 5-6 ft ; paraphyses very slender, septate, 
frequently branched, tips piriform and greenish. 
Syn, — ■ Fungus gelatinosus flavus, Vaill. Paris, 201, tab. ii, f. 7-9, 
1727; Mull., Flor. Dan. tab. 719, 1797. 
Leotia gelatinosa capitulo subviridi. , Hill, Hist. PL 43, 1751. 
Elvella lubrica , Scop., Plant. Carn. ii, 477, 1772. 
Helvetia lutea , Berg., Phyt. i, tab. 151, 1783-84. 
Peziza cornucopiae, Ploffm., Veg. Crypt. Germ, ii, 26, tab. 6, f. 1, 
1790. 
Helvetia gelatinosa, Bull., Champ. France, 296, tab. 473, f. 2, 1791 ; 
Rehm, Kr.-Fl. n. 5880, f. 1-4, p. 1161, 1896. 
Leotia lubrica , Pers., Comm. Fung. Clav. 31, 1797; Pers., Syn. 
Fung. 613, 1801. 
Clavaria tremula , Holmsk., Fung. Dan., 27, with an excellent fig., 
1799- 
Merulius lubricus , Schum., PL SaelL ii, 368, 1803. 
Hygromitra tremula , Nees, Syst. fig. 144, 1817. 
Helvetia flavo-virens, Nees, Syst. fig. 162, 1817. 
Exs.— Cooke, Fung. Brit. n. 231; Roum., Fung. Gall. n. 712; 
Rahenh ., Fung. Eur. n. 714, 2405, 2509; Phil., Elv. Brit. n. 136; 
Rehm , Ascom. n. 101; Fuckel, Fung. Rhen. n. 1138; Sydow, Myc. 
March, nn. 278, 667 ; Klotzsch- Rahenh., Herb. Myc. 29 ; Vize, Brit. 
Fung. n. 480; Oudemans, Fung. Neerl. n. 286; Karsten , Fung. Fenn. 
n. 461 ; Thiimen, Fung. Austr. n. 517 ; Ellis, N. Amer. Fung. n. 57 ; 
Thiimen, Myc. Univ. n. 1112 ; Berk., Brit. Fung. n. 255; Desmazieres, 
Crypt. France, s 6 r. i, n. 426; Westendorp, Crypt. Belg. n. 763; 
Mougeot and Nestler, Stirp. Crypt, n. 583 ; Holt, Schmidt, and Kunze, 
Deutschl. Schw. n. ccxxiv. 
Hab. — On damp ground in woods and shady places, also in 
swamps, peat-bogs, &c. 
Distr. — Britain, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France, Switzerland, 
Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Finland, Sikkim (Sinchul, 
8,600 ft., Dr. [now Sir] J. D. Hooker , n. 131), Tasmania {Archer), 
New Zealand {Colens 0), Victoria {Mueller), United States (Salem, 
Schweinitz ; North and South Carolina, Curtis , nn. 508, 2400). 
