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GUIDE TO THE MODELS OF FUNGI. 



182. Leotia lubrica Pers. — Receptacle irregularly globular, 

 yellow-olivaceous-grten, slimy ; stalk pulpy within, at length 

 hollow, nearly equal, yellowish, clammy, with 

 minute squamules. 



L. lubrica grows in woods and in damp, 

 bushy places ; not uncommon ; gregarious, some- 

 what cacspitose. 



183. Leotia acicularis Pers. — Receptacle 

 waxy, white, fragile, undulate and convex at 

 maturity ; stalk simple, slender, rarely branched, 

 white, becoming crooked and discoloured. 



On decayed stumps near the ground ; gre- 

 garious or scattered. 



GENUS XLIL—MITRULA Fr. 



Receptacle stipitate, globular or oval, im- 

 marginate, even, concrete 

 with the stalk. There are 

 three British species, two of 

 which are represented by 

 models. 



Fig. 76. — Leotia lubrica 

 Pers. (Natural size.) 



184. Mitrula cucuUata Fr. — Receptacle 

 ovate, globose, or mitrate, even, yellowish-red 



or ferruginous, ap- 

 proaching black; stalk 

 slender, solid, even, 

 or tomentose down- 

 wards, fl e X u o u s , 

 darker than recep- 

 tacle or brown-black. 

 Grows gregariously 

 on decaying pine 

 leaves in the autumn. Fig. 77, 



Fr. 



— Mitrula paludosa 

 (Natural size.) 



Fig. 78. — Spathul.-iria flavida Pei s. 

 (Natural size.) 



185. Mitrula paludosa Fr. — -Recep- 

 tacle usually globose or ovate, bright yel- 

 low or orange ; stalk slender, straight or 

 flexuous, often enlarged upwards, white 

 or tinted with ochre. 



On decaying leaves and twigs, in 

 marshes, pools, and wet places, in spring, 

 summer, and autumn; generally gregarious 

 or casspitosc. 



GENUS XUII.—SPATHULARIA Pers. 

 Receptacle stipitate, vertical, compressed laterally, decurrent 



