MITRULA. 27 



On decaying vegetable matter on the ground in damp 

 places. Spring and autumn. Whether edible or not is 

 unknown. 



Name Diminutive of fiirpa, a little mitre. 



Three species . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Totally white . . . . . . . . . . . alba. 



Stem paler than the pileus . . . . . . . . paludosa. 



Stem as dark or darker than the pileus . . . . cucullata. 



1. Mitrula cucullata (Batsch). Fries. 



Head ovate or conical, even, nearly ferruginous ; stem 

 filiform, flexuous, brown, approaching black, glabrous, or 

 tomentose downwards ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 

 8, narrowly fusiform, bi- or tri-guttulate, 12 X 3^ ; para- 

 physes filiform. 



Elvella cucullata Batsch., "EL," f. 152. Mitrula 

 cucullata Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.;' 347 ; Berk., 

 "OutL," 360; Gooke, "Handbk." 1951; Karst, "Myco. 

 Fenn./' p. 28; Fckl., " Symb. Myco," p. 332; Cooke, 

 "Mycogr," fig. 170; Quelet, ; < Champ," pt. 1, p. 378; 

 Gill, " Champ," p. 27, c. i. Mitrula (Heyderia) abietis- 

 Fries, "Sys. Myco," i. p. 493. M. HeyderiPers., 

 "Disp," 56, t. 3, f. 12; "Flo. Dan," t. 1670, f. 2. M. 

 Pusilla Fries, " Sys. Myco," i. p. 493. Leotia mitrula 

 Pers, "Syn. Fung," 611 ; " Myco. Eur," i. p. 199; A. 

 and S, 295; Grev, "Flo. E lin," p. 416; "Sc. Crypt. 

 Flo," t. 81. L. putiHaNees, " Sys," p. 173, t, 17, f. 160. 

 Geoglossum cucullatum Fries, " Elench," i. 233 ; " Eng. 

 Flo," v. 179. Clavaria fcrruc/inea Sow., t. 84. 



Exs. Desm, "Crypt. Fr," i. 1155; " Erb. Grit. Ital," 

 i. 466 ; Rabh, " Fung. Eur," 37, 669 ; Kze. and Schm, 98 : 

 Fckl, "F. Eh," 1237; Wartm. and Sch, 431; Cooke', 

 " Fung. Brit," 233 ; Berk, " Brit. Fung," 254 ; Phil, " Elv. 

 Brit," No. 53; Karst, "Fung. Fenn," 447; Roumg, 

 "Fung. Gal," 713. 



On decaying pine-leaves. Autumn. 



A small plant, not more than 2 inches high, very 

 slender, gregarious. The head varies in form, being ovate, 



