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]\Iost of tlic Geoglossa are not remarkable for their beauty
the present species is, however, an exception, being of an extremely
pleasing colour, both in the pileus or clavula, and the
stipes. It IS here also both figured and described for the first
time as a British plant.
The specimens kindly communicated to me b y Caiitaiii
C a r m i c h a e l , were accompanied b y a coloured drawing, which
agreed pretty exactly with the memorandum I had made from
e t c T iT r I, T A r n o t t two years before,
except that the clavula in Captain C a r m i c h a e l ’s drawing
was not so daj-coloiired as in mine, or in the figures published
H o lm s k i o l d . In this respect, how-
evei, the plant is notoriously liable to vary
In the dissection of the hymenium, I did not succeed in
acing the divisions of the sporidia, as represented in the otherwise
tolerably characteristic figure of D i t m a r , in the Fungi of
t T a t l T ? C a r m i c h a e l , I found as faithful as
that naturalists details always are. The remarkable sporidia
conspicuous 111 G. mscoswn and hirsutum, already repre-
2 - tl™ w„,k. a ,, species entice,y J J S ;
whcl, .f i t ,e ,e posable to set aside the general habit and exteinal
characters of the plant, would indicate a generic differ-
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size. Fig. 2. A plant longitudinally
physes' F itT 'r ' i ^ Fig. i, Tkecw and parapnyses.
big. 5. A p o n * « /—magnified.