MITRULA. 29 



Gregarious, csespitose, or solitary, soft, glabrous 

 hollow, rather brittle, 1 to 3 inches in height ; head very 

 variable in form, globose, ovate, or broadly clavate ; 

 summit generally obtuse, bright orange }'ellow, filled 

 when young with silky filaments, which disappear with 

 age, leaving it hollow; stem white, varying from a 

 yellowish to a pinkish tinge, enlarged upwards, even, 

 and crooked. 



Name Palus, a marsh ; found in marshes. 



Kames Castle, Isle of Bute (Dr. Greville). Pitlochrie 

 (Dr. Thomson). Penzance (Mr. Ralfs). Aboyne, New 

 Pitsligo (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Bournemouth ; St. 

 George's Hill, Weybridge (Mr. F. Currey). Keston 

 Common ; Horsham ; Penicuick (Dr. M. C. Cooke). North 

 of Ireland (Templeton). Baldovan Woods (Gardener). 

 North Wootton, Norfolk (Dr. John Lowe). Trefrew, North 

 Wales ! Capel Curig, North Wales ! Llyn Ogvvin, North 

 Wales ! 



3. Mitnda alba. Wor. Smith. 



Head globose, even, white ; stem stuffed, white ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia lanceolate, hyaline, eguttulate, 

 16 x 3/i. 



Mitrula albctrW. G. Smith, " Grevillea," i. p. 136, 

 t. 10, lower figure ; Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 177. 



Differs entirely from M. paludosa, Fries, in colour, 

 and especially in the globose head and stuffed stem (W. 

 G. Smith, I. c.). 



Amongst submerged leaves. April, 1877. 



Name Albus, white. 



East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton (Mr. Cecil H. Sp. 

 Perceval). 



Excluded Species. 



Mitrula minuta Sow. (small orange Mitrula). Very 

 minute ; receptacle lanceolate, orange ; stem equal, pallid. 



Fries, " Sys. Myco.," i. p. 492. Clavaria minuta 

 Sow., t. 391. ' 



On the bractese of Dipsacus pilosus. 



Rayleigh, Essex (Rev. R. B. Francis). 



