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p ileus and stem dark aeruginous green. The Rev, M. J. 

 Berkeley says the tint of green is so dark that it is 

 nearly black. 



On the ground. Not edible. 



Name — yAwpoc, green, ke^oX?), a head. 



Hampshire (Miss Broad wood). 



Form Stevensoni. Berk. 



Short, densely caaspitose ; pileus and stem green. 

 B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1827. Steven., 

 " Myco. Scot," p. 297. 



On damp ground in woods. 



Name — After the Rev. John Stevenson. 



Glamis, Hunter's Hill (Rev. J. Stevenson). 



B. cudonia. Fries. 



3. Leotia, circinans. Pers. 



Gregarious, somewhat caespitose, or arranged in 

 circles; pileus fleshy, convex, afterwards undulate; 

 margin involute, nerves underneath running down into 

 the stem ; stem fistulose, somewhat powdery; asci clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, linear, cylindrical, or clavate, straight or 

 curved, multi-guttulate, 50 — 60 X %ja ; paraphyses filiform, 

 curved at the apices. (Plate II. fig. 5.) 



Leotia circinans — Pers, " Coram," p. 31 ; " Icon, et 

 Descr," p. 16, t. 5. figs. 5-7 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco,"ii. p. 27 ; 

 Steven, "Myco. Scot," p. 297; Cooke, " Mycogr," f. 172. 

 Cudonia circinans — Fckl, " Symb. Myco," 332 ; Karst, 

 "Myco. Fenn," p. 25 Leotia gracilis — Pers, "Myco. 

 Eur," i. 198. Helot circinans — Swartz, " Vet. Ac. 

 Handl," 1812, p. 15. Helvetia revoluta—Wshl, " Ups," 

 p. 464 Leotia lutea — Peck (sub. Vibrissea) in "Reports 

 New York Museum"; Cooke in "Bullet. Buff. S. N. 

 So," 1875. Cudonia circinans — Quelet, " Champ," pt. ii. 

 p. 380, 



Exs.— Karst, "Fung. Fenn," 153; Rabh, "Fung. 

 Eur," 38, 312; Fckl, " F. Rh," No. 1139. 



