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pileus and stem dark seruginous green. The Rev. M. J. 

 Berkeley says the tint of green is so dark that it is 

 nearly black. 



On the ground. Not edible. 



Name xXwpog, green, Kf^oXr), a head. 



Hampshire (Miss Broadwood). 



Form Stevensoni. Berk. 



Short, densely csespitose ; pileus and stem green. 

 B. and Br, "Ann. Nat. Hist," No. 1827. Steven., 

 " Myco. Scot," p. 297. 



On damp ground in woods. 



Name After the Rev. John Stevenson. 



Glamis, Hunter's Hill (Rev. J. Stevenson). 



B. CUDONIA. Fries. 



3. Leotia circinans. Pers. 



Gregarious, somewhat caespitose, or arranged in 

 circles; pileus fleshy, convex, afterwards undulate; 

 margin involute, nerves underneath running down into 

 the stem ; stem fistulose, somewhat powdery; asci clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, linear, cylindrical, or clavate, straight or 

 curved, multi-guttulate, 50 60 X 3/x ; paraphyses filiform, 

 curved at the apices. (Plate II. fig. 5.) 



Leotia circinans Pers., " Comm.," p. 31 ; " Icon, et 

 Descr.," p. 16, t. 5. figs. 5-7 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco,"ii. p. 27 ; 

 Steven., "Myco. Scot.," p. 297; Cooke, "Mycogr.," f. 172. 

 Cudonia circinans FckL, " Symb. Myco.," 332 ; Karst.. 

 "Myco. Fenn.," p. 25, Leotia gracilis Pers, "Myco. 

 Eur," i. 198. Helot circinans Swartz, " Vet. Ac. 

 Hand!.," 1812, p. 15. Hdvella revolutaW&hl., " Tips.," 

 p. 464 Leotia lutea Peck (sub. Vibrissea) in " Reports 

 New York Museum"; Cooke in "Bullet. Buff. S. N. 

 Sc," 1875. Cudonia circinans Quelet, " Champ," pt. ii. 

 p. 380, 



Exs. Karst, "Fung. Fenn," 153; Rabh, "Fung. 

 Eur," 38, 312; Fckl, " F. Rh," No. 1139. 



