32 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Key to the Species. 



Hymenium seruginous green . . . . . . . . viride. 



Hyinenium smoky olive or dingy purple . . . . olivaceum . 



1. Leptoglossum viride. (Pers.) 



Fasciculate, verdigris-green ; receptacle distinct ; steir 

 squamulose ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong- 

 elliptic, hyaline, 15 X Ofi ; paraphyses filiform, hardly 

 enlarged upwards. (Plate II. fig. 8.) 



Geoglossum viride — Pers., " Oomm.," p. 40 ; Fries 

 "Sys. Myco.," i. 48; Weinm, "Hym," p. 498; Grev. 

 "Sc. Crypt. Flo.," t. 211; Sturm, "Flo," t. 48; Nees 

 "Sys," t. 17, p. 158; "Eng. Flo," v. p. 179; Berk. 

 " Outl," p. 361 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 1956 ; " Mycogr,' 

 tig. 14; Kickx, "Flo. Flan," i. 501; Seer, "Mycogr./ 

 iii. 621; Fckl, " Symb. Myco," 284; Quelet, "Champ./ 

 p. 377; Pat, p. 29, f. 66. Mitrvla viridis— Karst, "Myco 

 Fenn," i. 29. Clavaria mitrata viridis — Holms, " Ot," 

 p. 24. G. viridis— " Flo. Dan," t. 1258, f. 1. C. Ser- 

 pentina — Mull, " Zool. Dan," p. 256. Leotia geoglossoides 

 -r-Corda, " Icon," iii. p. 37, t. vi. f. 94. Microglossias 

 viridi — Gill, " Champ," p. 26, c. i. 



Exs.— Fckl, "F. Rh," 1140; Renin, "Asco," 151; 

 Rabh, "Fung. Eur," 524 and 1625; Desm., "Crypt. Fr," 

 i. 423 ; Karst, " Fung. Fenn," 449; Cooke, "Fung. Brit," 

 ed. ii. 395 ; Phil, " Elv. Brit.," 54. 



On the ground in woods, amongst moss and decaying 

 leaves. Autumn. Qualities unknown. 



From 1 to 3 inches high ; about J of an inch in 

 broadest part. The club-shaped head is generally obtuse 

 at the summit, and terminates abruptly and unevenly 

 at the base, occupying about one-third to one-half the 

 entire length of the plant, not unfrequently compressed, 

 glabrous, and, when wet, slippery ; the stem is cylindrical, 

 squamulose, rather paler than the head ; the flesh is also 

 green ; the asci are narrowly clavate ; the sporidia 

 elliptic-oblong ; paraphyses abundant ; gelatina hymenia 

 greenish. The sporidia in my Herefordshire specimens 

 did not exceed the size given above, but Dr. Cooke 

 (" Mycogr.") gives 30 X 10/x. 



