22—GEASTER LAGENIFORMIS. 
Unexpanded plant acute, ovate, (compared to shape of a flask ). 
Mycelium mostly basal. Exoperidium usually saccate. (*) Mycelial 
layer generally closely adnate, sometimes disposed to separate, often 
.split into parallel lines, (f) Fleshy layer thin, usually peeling off 
from the segments but remaining on the limb of the exoperidium. 
Endoperidium subglobose, closely sessile. Mouth conical, definite. (J) 
Columella elongated, in dried ripe specimens somewhat subglobose. 
Spores globose, rough, 5-6 me. 
Fig. 76. Geaster lageniformis. 
Fig. 77. 
Geaster lageniformis. 
(Unexpanded, dried.) 
The entire plant is a reddish brown. Morgan (in conversation) 
suggests that it is a depauperate form of G. triplex, a view that is not 
improbable. The expanded plant can with difficulty be told from G. 
saccatus, though segments are more acute. The distinction is in the 
form of the unexpanded plant. 
Specimens in our Collection. 
Pennsylvania, Dr. Herbst. Florida, Mrs. Delia Sams. Connecticut, E. P. Ely. 
Minnesota, Minn. Rot. Survey. Washington, W. N. Suksdorf. 
Germany, P. Magnus. 
Explanation of Figures. 
Fig. 76. Expanded plant from dried specimens in N. Y. Rot. Garden. 
Fig. 77. Unexpanded plant from Minn. Rot. Survey ; the shape is no doubt 
more abruptly acute than the fresh plant would be. 
(D In all our specimens and in Vittadini’s figure. Smith (Gard. Chronicle 1878, p. (>08) 
shows it recurved and it probably is so in fully expanded fresh plants. 
(f) Mentioned by Morgan as G. vittatus. 
(t) In some specimens the entire mouth is lighter color than remainder of endoperidium, in 
other the mouth is dark but has a light color basal line. 
