464 ME. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
The present species agrees better with Helvella than Gyro- 
mitra. The pileus is more or less saddle-shaped, drooping, and 
quite free from the sides of the stem. The ribs on the hymenial 
surface are slight, and are indicated in many species included in 
-Helvella by common consent. 
MrrRULA VINOSA, Berk. in Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. p. 273 
(1860) ; Cooke, Mycogr. p. 104, fig. 181; Sace. Syll. viii. n. 118. 
(Pl. XVI. fig. 3.) 
Clustered or gregarious; entire fungus dingy vinous-purple, 
slender, straight or flexuous, 2-3:5 em. high; club cylindrical, 
entire, even, obtuse, about equal in length to the stem, from 
which it is clearly differentiated, 1:5-2:5 mm. thick ; stem slender, 
equal, glabrous, or sometimes apparently very minutely clothed 
with reddish down, especially near the base, rooting; asci 
narrowly eylindrie-clavate, apex rounded, 60x73 spores 8, 
irregularly 2-seriate, continuous, hyaline, smooth, straight or 
slightly curved, linear-elliptical, 9-12 x L5-2,4 ; paraphyses 
slender, almost cylindrical. 
On rotten wood. Tasmania (Archer). 
LEOTIA ELEGANS, Berk. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. v. 
(1846) p. 6. 
Stem slender, straight, erect, even, glabrous, 5-7 cm. long, 
2-3 mm. thick, equal ; head clavate, 3-5 mm. long, slightly thicker 
than the stem, sometimes bifid; whole plant dull orange-brown 
(when dry); asci cylindric-clavate, apex rounded, 8-spored ; 
spores irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, smooth, continuous, nar- 
rowly fusiform, ends acute, 7-8 x 1'5 p; paraphyses filiform, not 
thickened at the apex, hyaline, rather closely septate, about 
2 p thick. 
Mitrula elegans, Berk. in Grevillea, vol. iii. (1875) p. 149; 
Syn. Helv. Pileat., Cooke, in Hedwipia, 1875, p. 7 ; Sacc. Syll. viii. 
n. 119. 
On the ground among moss. United States ( Greene, n. 66). 
A peculiar species, remarkable for the long, straight, slender 
stem and small head, which seem to suggest the idea of having 
been drawn up by growing among tall moss, &c.; however, it 
ean scarcely be considered abnormal, as there are eight perfect 
specimens in the Kew collection, all having been collected at 
the same time and place; but where that place is, beyond being 
in the United States, is unknown. 
