LEOTIA. 21 



Terrington St. Clement's, and North Wootton ! (Mr 

 C. B. Plowright). 



3. Verpa conica. Swartz. 



Pileus campanulate, nearly even, brown, margin sub- 

 sinuate, yellow beneath, as well as the equal stem ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic. 



Verpa conica Swartz, " Vet. Ac. Hand!.," p. 136 ; 

 Pers., " Myco. Bur.," p. 204 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 24 ; 

 "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 185; Berk., " OutL," p. 359; Cooke, 

 "Handbk.," No. 1950; Gill., "Champ.," p. 21. Phallus 

 conicus" Flo. Dan./' t. 654; Timm, " Megap.," p. 263. 

 Leotia conica Pers., " Syn. Fung./' p. 613. Helvella 

 Relhani Sow., t. 11. 



On the earth on heaths. 



Stem 1 to 2 inches long, even, round, fistulose, slenderer 

 than in V. digitaliformis. Pileus slightly fleshy, cam- 

 panulate (Fries). 



I have seen no specimen of this, but the characters 

 are so marked that it must be retained. 



Name Conus, a cone ; from the shape of the pileus. 



Gogmagog Hills, Cambridgeshire (Relhan). 



Doubtfully recorded. 



Verpa speciosa--Vitt., " Mang.," p. 120, t. xv. figs. 

 5-8; " Grevillea," x. p. 51. 



Berkeley and Broome record this doubtfully from 

 Coed Coch, in "Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.," No. 1922, as 

 follows : " Agreeing in size and colour with Vittadini's 

 figure ; but the sporidia are not oblong, so that there is 

 some doubt about the species." 



GENUS V. LEOTIA. Hill. 



Receptacle pileate, supported in the centre, orbicular, 

 spreading, revolute at the margin, clothed above and at 

 the margin with the hymenium ; hymenium confluent, 

 undulated or even, persistent ; asci fixed, clavate-cylin- 



