26 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



white, pallid, or rufescent ; the pileus at first plane, with 

 a slight depression in the centre, then convex, the margin 

 sometimes undulating, but generally straight ; the stem 

 slender, bent, occasionally branched. 



Name Acicula, a small pin ; from its form. 



Near Halifax (Bolton). Pophills (Mrs. Rufford). 

 Appin (Capt. Carmichael). Homstock Wood, King's 

 Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Attingham Park, Salop ! 

 Almond Park, Salop ! Ercall Hill, Salop ! 



Doubtful Species. 



Leotia ndna With, (dwarf Leotia). Small; pileus 

 lobed, rugose, white, even beneath, and brown; stem 

 stuffed, cylindrical, white. 



Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 28 ; With., iv. p. 296. 



Amongst moss, on a shady bank. 



Pendarvis, Cornwall (Mr. Stackhouse). 



" Pileus snowy-white, leathery, hard, crumpled and 

 deflected in various forms, smooth and brown under- 

 neath, about j\j of an inch over ; stern white, solid, 

 smooth, not at all wrinkled, J of an inch high, thick as 

 a crow-quill " (With., I. c.). 



This was included in Berkeley's " Outlines," but ex- 

 cluded from Cooke's " Handbook." It is placed here on 

 the chance of some plant being discovered answering to 

 the description. 



GENUS VI. MITRULA. Fries. 



Receptacle globose or oval, even, immarginate, concrete 

 with the stem ; substance fleshy ; asci cylindrical, or 

 somewhat clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform, hyaline. (Plate II. 

 % 6.) 



Small slender plants, of which there are but six 

 species (now that Dr. Cooke has created the genus 

 Leploglossum), four of which are British, and are dis- 

 tinguished from Leotia by having no decided margin to 

 the receptacle, from Leptoglossum by the broader and 

 shorter capitulum, and from Spathularia by the capitu- 

 lum not being compressed. 



