22 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



drical ; sporidia 8, oblong, oblong-fusiform or filiform ; 

 paraphyses slender. (Plate II. fig. 5.) 



Stem always present, distinct, wholly diffused into 

 the receptacle. Pileus somewhat irregular, always free 

 from the stem, convex, gradually depressed, tumid, 

 viscous when bearing fruit, soft, margin repand. Sub- 

 stance fleshy, soft, somewhat tremellose. 



Gregarious, terrestrial, medium sized, occurring in 

 summer and autumn ; without odour, and insipid ; not 

 edible (vide Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 25). 



Name Supposed to be from Xaori]?, smoothness. 



AKEANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 



A. Eu-Leotia . . . . . . . . species 1-2 



B. Cudonia ...... . . 3-4 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Sporidia filiform . . 

 Sporidia fusiform 



, ("Not exceeding 1 inch in height, stem filiform 

 ' \0ne to two inches in height, stem stout 



n (Pileus yellowish green . . 

 ' \Pileus dark seruginous green . . . . 



circinans. 



1 



acicularis. 



2 



lubrica. 



cldorocepliala. 



A. EU-LEOTIA. 



1. Leotia lubrica. Pers. 



Gregarious, somewhat caespitose, tremellose ; pileus 

 tumid, repand, yellow-olivaceous-green; stem at length 

 hollow, nearly equal, yellow ; asci nearly cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, narrowly elliptic, 25 X 8/^; paraphyses fili- 

 form. 



Leotia lubrica Pers., "Syn. Fung.," p. 613; Pers., 

 " Myco. Eur," t. ix. ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. 29 ; Berk., 

 " Outl," t. 22, f. 1 ; Grev., " Sc. Crypt. Flo.," t. 56 ; Cooke, 

 " Handbk.," No. 1964, fig. 327 ; " Mycogr.," fig, 171 ; 

 Karst, " Myco. Fenn.," 26 ; FckL, " Symb. Myco.," p. 284 ; 

 Sacc, "Myco. Yen. Sp." p. 162; Kickx., "Flo. Flan.," i. 

 p. 500 : Crouan, " Flo. Fin.," p. 59 ; Quelet, " Champ./' 

 pt. i. p. 379. 



