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globose, subclavate, or conical, of a yellowish red or pale 

 cinnamon colour, and fleshy texture ; the stem is rather 

 firm, darker in colour than the head, even, solid, and 

 flexuous. 



Name Cucullus, a hood; from the shape of the 

 pileus. 



Balmuto, Scotland (Miss Boswell). Near Norwich 

 (Sowerby). Bungay (D. Stock). Wiltshire (Mr. C. E. 

 Broome). Castle Rising, Norfolk ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 

 Joydens Wood (Mr. F. Currey). Linlithgow ; Hunslow, 

 Middlesex (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Wrekin, Salop! 

 Penicuick, near Edinburgh ! 



2. Mitrula paludosa. Fries. 



Head ovate, obtuse, inflated, even, yellow or orange 

 yellow ; stem rather slender, straight or flexous, hollow, 

 paler than the head ; asci subcylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 nearly fusiform, 12 14 X 3'5^u ; paraphyses filiform. 

 (Plate II. fig. 6.) 



Mitrula paludosa Fries, " Sys. Myco.," i. 491 ; 

 " Summa Veg. Scan.," 346 ; " Ena. Bot," v. p. 180 ; Berk, 

 "Outl." p. 360; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 1952; Huss., 

 "Myco.," i. t. 9; Karat., "Myco. Fenn," p. 28; Fckl, 

 " Symb. Myco.," 332 ; Kickx, " Flo. Flan," i. 501 ; Crouan, 

 "Flo. Fin," 58; Cooke, " Mycogr," fig. 175; Quelet, 

 " Champ," pt. i. p. 378 ; Gill, " Champ," p. 27, c. i. ; Pat, 

 p. 39, f. 97 (spor. bad). Clavaria phalloides Bull, 

 " Champ," t. 465, f. 3. C. epiphylla Dicks, " Crypt," 

 t. 3, f. 10. Leotia Ludwigii Pers, " Syn. Fung," t. 3, 

 f. 13. L. Dicksonii, L. Bulliardi, L. laricina Pers, 

 "Syn. Fung," 612. L. uliginosa Grev., "Sc. Crypt. 

 Flo.," t. 312; Pers, "Myco. Eur," i. 200. 



Exs. Klotzsch, " H. M," 238 ; Desm, " Crypt. Fr," i. 

 606; Rabh, "Herb. Myco," 132; Fck], "F. Rh," 1236; 

 Berk, " Brit. Fung.," 278; Phil, "Elv. Brit," 2; Karat., 

 "Fung. Fenn," 24; Winter, "Fungi Eur," 2844; Rehm, 

 " Asco," 601 ; Ellis, "N. A. Fungi," 433. 



On decaying leaves in wet places. Spring to 

 autumn. Qualities unknown. 



