Plants usually densely clustered, more or less viscid-gelatinous, ochraceous-yellow, often with a greenish or olive tint, especially with age or on partial drying, 3-6 cm. or more high; ascigerous portion pileate, convex above, the surface often irregularly furrowed, with a recurved margin, wrinkled or nodulose, I-I.5 cm. broad: stem terete or somewhat compressed, usually slightly tapering upward, the adjacent ones often coalescing below, about I cm. thick below, 0.5 cm. thick above, minutely squamulose, sometimes with innate greenish granules; asci narrowly clavate, I30-I60 X I0-I2 1; spores 8, hyaline, smooth, subfusiform, I828 X 5-6 t, becoming 5-7-septate; paraphyses filiform, branched, hyaline. This species, said to be edible, is the commonest member of the Geoglossaceae in the eastern United States, occurring on rich humus or sandy soil in woods from Ontario to Alabama and west to Iowa. It is very variable in color and consistency, being [MYCOLOGIA for November, I909, was issued December i, 1909] 1