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Die 12 genauer bekannten Arten, welche Phillips 
beschreibt, sind folgende: 
I. Stipitatae. 
1. V. truncorum (Alb. et Schw. sub Leotia). Fries, 
Syst. II. pag. 31. Fasciculate, gregarious or scattered; 
hymenium convex, golden yellow or blood-red, forming 
with the membranaceous receptacle an orbicular head; stipes 
terete, glaucous, squamulose, asei eylindrical; sporidia 8, 
fillform, multiseptate; paraphyses very slender, branched, 
slightly enlarged at the summits. — On decayed wood of 
alder, Birch, Pine etc. 
2. V. margarita White, Scott. Nat. vol. II. pag. 218. 
Simple; head orbicular, orange-vermilion, margin hispid; 
stem cylindrical, hirsute with black articulated hairs, inter- 
nally whitish einereous. — On dead sticks of heather. 
3. V. rimarum Fries (Syst. II. pag. 32). Subfasei- 
culate, yellowish, capitulum becoming tawny, stem compressed. 
On chinks of beams and other old wood in a house. 
4. V. vermicularis Weinm., Hymenom. et Gasterom. 
pag. 487. Simple; capitulum suborbiceular, sublacunose, 
watery pallid; stipes somewhat terete, fusco-nigrescent. — 
On decayed moist wood of Alnus incanus. 
5. V. flavipes Rabh. in Botan. Zeitg. 1852 pag. 286. 
Gregarious and subeaespitose or scattered, simple, rooting 
in the matrix; stem 1—3”’ long, erect or curved, terete, 
yellow, often pulveraceous; receptacle from greenish be- 
coming glauco-einerascent, floccose with the erumpent spo- 
ridia. — On Vitis vinifera. 
6. V. lutea Peck, XXV. Report of New-York State 
Museum pag. 97, taf. I., fg. 19—23. Head subglobose; hyme- 
nium smooth, yellow, margin slightly lobed, deflexed, free; 
stem equal, solid, yellow, but more highly coloured than 
the hymenium; asci clavate or cylindrical; sporidia long, 
filiform. 6— 12” high; head 2— 3” in diameter. — On 
prostrate mossy trunks of trees, and amongst fallen leaves. 
1. V. Fergussoni (Berk. et Broome). Synon.: Pa- 
tellaria Fergussoni Berk. et Broome in Ann. Nat. Hist. 1875. 
Vol. XV. pag. 39. Stipes short, thikened upwards; cups 
plane, externally dark brown, granulose; hymenium plane 
or pulvinate, yellow; asci elongated; sporidia filiform; sum- 
mits of the paraphyses globose. — On Prunus Padus. 
8. V. mieroscopica Berk. etBr., Ann, Nat. Hist. 1876, 
Vol. XVII. pag. 142. Very minute, plane or cup-shaped; 
hymenium and receptacle grey; stipes short, slender, black; 
asci clavate; sporidia eight, filiform; paraphyses filiform, 
numerous. — On damp fir wood. 
