LEOTIA. 25 



On the ground in fir woods. Autumn. Not edible. 



Named from its habit of growing in circles. The 

 pileus is of a soft fleshy consistence, somewhat rotund, 

 at times much undulated, variable in colour with age 

 and dryness, pallid-yellow, sometimes with a fleshy 

 tinge; stem 1 to 2 inches high, J of an inch thick, 

 crooked, often sulcate, solid or fistulose, expanding up- 

 wards into the pileus. 



Name Circino, to make round; from growing in 

 rings. 



Forres, Scotland ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Aviemore, Scot- 

 land ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Claims, Crane's Hill, Scot- 

 land ! (Rev. J. Stevenson). Menmuir, Scotland (Rev. 

 M. J. Berkeley). 



4. Leotia acicularis. Pers. 



Gregarious or scattered, small, milk-white ; pileus 

 waxy, fragile, undulate-convex, margin straight, under 

 side granulose ; stem simple or branched, becoming 

 crooked, discoloured ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform, 

 biguttulate, becoming pseudo-uniseptate, 25 28 X 4/* ; 

 paraphyses filiform. 



Leotia acicularis Pers., " Obs.," ii. p. 20, t. 5, fig. 1 ; 

 t. 6, figs. 1, 2. Fungus minimus Ray., "Syn.," p. 12 ; 

 " Hist.," iii. p. 24. Helvetia acicularis Bull., " Champ.,'' 

 p. 296, t. 473, f. 1, Helvella agariciformis Bolt., " Fung.," 

 t. 98, f. 1 ; Sow., " Fung.," t. 57. Helotium aciculare- 

 Pers., " Syn. Fung.," 677 ; " Myco. Eur," 343 ; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco.," ii. p. 156; A. and S., 349. Peziza adcularis- 

 "Eng. Flo," v. p. 208, Berk, Outl," 371, Cooke, 

 'Handbk." No. 2129; Steven., "Myco. Scot," p. 328. 

 Cudonia Queletii Fries, " Icon. Select.," fas. vi. ; Quelet, 

 " Champ," pt, i. p. 380 , Gill, " Champ," p. 23 ; c. i. Leotia 

 Queletii Cooke, " Mycogr," fig. 369. 



Exs. Cooke, " Fung. Brit," No. 400 ; Roume., " Fung. 

 Gal," 1210. 



On decayed stumps of trees, near the ground. 

 Autumn. 



Varying from J an inch to 1 inch or more high, 



