LEOTIA. 23 



Leotia gelatinosa Hill., " Hist," 43. Elvela lubrica 

 Scop., " Cam./' ii. 477. Helvetia lutea Berg., " Phyt," 

 i. t. 151. H. gelatinosa, Butt., "Champ.," p. 296, t. 470, 

 f. 2; Sow., "Fung.," t. 70. 



Exs. Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 461; Schm. and Kzs, 

 224 ; " Erb. Grit. Ital.," i. 45 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," i. 231 ; 

 Moug. and Nest., 583 ; Rabh., " Fung. Eur.," 714 ; Rabh., 

 " Herb. Myco.," 29 ; FckL, "F. Eh.," li38 ; Eav., vi. No. 77 ; 

 Berk, " Brit. Fung," 255 ; Eehm., " Asco." 101 ; Winter, 

 " Fungi Eur," 2405 and 2509 ; Roumg., " Fung. Gal," 712 ; 

 Phil, "Elv. Brit," 130. 



On the ground in woods. Summer and autumn. 

 Not edible. 



Stem from 1 to 2 inches long, granular with minute 

 squamules ; at first pulpy within, then hollow. 



Name Lubricus, slimy. 



Cambridgeshire (Eelham). Balmuto, Scotland (Miss 

 Boswell). Appin (Capt. Carmichael). Foxhall (Capt. 

 Wauch). Anglesea (Rev. Hugh Davies). King's Cliife, 

 Penzance, Bungay, Aberystwith, Wicklow, Grundale 

 (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Near Bristol (Mr. C. E. Broome). 

 Twycross (Rev. A. Bloxam). Little Malvern (Mr. Edwin 

 Lees). North of Ireland (Templeton). Haw Wood, near 

 Bristol (Mr. C. Bucknall). Shere (Dr. Capron). North 

 Wootton, Castle Rising (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Epping 

 Forest (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Wrekin, Salop ! woods near 

 Hereford ! 



2. Leotia chlorocephala. Schw. 



Crespitose ; pileus globose, very glabrous, nearly 

 pellucid, seruginous green ; stem very long, twisted, 

 powdered ; asci clavato-cylindrical ; sporidia 8, fusi- 

 form, curved, 3-guttulate, 20 22 X op ; paraphyses fili- 

 form. 



Schw, "Syn.," p. 33; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 30; 

 Berk, and Curt, "Grevillea," iii. p. 149; Cooke, " Mycogr," 

 fig. 174; B. and Br, "Ann. Nat. Hist," No. 1985; 

 " Grevillea," xi. p. 15. 



Variable in size, reaching 4 inches in height ; the 



