Distinguished among the clavate species by the long, narrow, brown, septate spores. The entire plant is black in all British species.
Growing on the ground, among grass, etc. Massee.
G. glutino´sum Pers. Ascophore 1.5–2 in. high, black, glabrous; ascigerous portion about ⅓ of the entire length, oblong, lanceolate, up to .4 in. broad, obtuse, slightly viscid, more or less compressed, passing imperceptibly into the somewhat slender, cylindrical, viscid, brownish-black stem; asci clavate, tapering downward into a long, slender pedicel. Spores 8, arranged more or less parallel near the apex of the ascus, cylindrical, ends obtuse, 3-septate and clear-brown at maturity, straight or very slightly curved, 65–75×5–6µ; paraphyses numerous, distinctly septate, about 2µ thick, pale-brown, apex broadly pyriform and filled with dark-brown coloring matter.
On the ground among grass, etc.
The most important features of the present species are 3-septate brown spores and compressed ascophore. Massee.
New Jersey, E.B. Sterling. Mt. Gretna, Pa., August, 1899, gregarious in wet ground. Over a quart found in one patch. McIlvaine.
Stewed it is delicious.
