. A text-book of mycology and plant pathology . Plant diseases; Fungi in agriculture; Plant diseases; Fungi. 170 MYCOLOGY The spores are brown, very long and many-celled, 100 to 120 by 4 to 7At. G. glutinosum, another American species, grows on the ground among the grass. It is black and smooth with the ascigerous portion one-third the entire length of the fruit body and in shape oblong- lanceolate, slightly viscid. The upper portion passes imperceptibly into the stalk. The spores are eight in number, arranged parallel to each other with obtuse ends and three-septate, 65 to 75 by 5 to 6/*, and
. A text-book of mycology and plant pathology . Plant diseases; Fungi in agriculture; Plant diseases; Fungi. 170 MYCOLOGY The spores are brown, very long and many-celled, 100 to 120 by 4 to 7At. G. glutinosum, another American species, grows on the ground among the grass. It is black and smooth with the ascigerous portion one-third the entire length of the fruit body and in shape oblong- lanceolate, slightly viscid. The upper portion passes imperceptibly into the stalk. The spores are eight in number, arranged parallel to each other with obtuse ends and three-septate, 65 to 75 by 5 to 6/*, and brown in color. Leotia chlorocephala is a fungus found in West Virginia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It is cespitose in habit and grows in mixed woods on moist ground, from July until late frosts. It is green and has a gelatinous appearance. The pileus is depressed globose, more or less wavy and with an incurved border, in color a dark verdigris-green. It is edible. Another species, £. lubrica, is found on the ground in woods from North Carolina and Minnesota to Massachusetts. It is yellowish, olive- green with an irregular hemispheric, inflated, wavy cap. Family 2. Helvellace^.—The fruit body in these edible fungi is fleshy and divided into a hollow stalk and ascigerous expanded portion. The upper part is cap-like and covered externally by the ascigeral layer. The asci are club-shaped and open by the lifting off of a distinct The spores are ellipsoid, colorless, or bright yellow and Fig. 61.—Geoglossum hirsulum. A, Appearance of fungus; B, asci with paraphyses; C spore. A, natural size; B, 300/1; C, 400/1. (Die naliir- lichen Pflanzenfamilien I. i, p. 165.) lid. Five genera are included in the family: Morchella, Gyromitra, Verpa, Cidaris and Helvetia. This family includes the largest of the sac fungi! Some species of Gyromitra weigh over a pound and forms of Morchella may growafoot tall. The cap of Morchella is more or less deeply ridged, crosswise and lengthwi
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