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Temngton St. Clement's, and North Wootton ! (Mr. 

 C. B. Plowright). 



3. Verpa conica. Swartz. 



Pileus campanulate, nearly even, brown, margin sub- 

 sinuate, yellow beneath, as well as the equal stem ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic. 



Verpa conica — Swartz, " Vet. Ac. Handl.," p. 136 ; 

 Pers, " Myco. Eur.," p. 204 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 24 ; 

 "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 185; Berk., " Outl.," p. 359; Cooke, 

 "Handbk," No. 1950; Gill., "Champ.," p. 21. Phallus 

 conicus—" Flo. Dan," t. 654 ; Timm, " Megap.," p. 263. 

 Leutia conica — Pers, " Syn. Fung," p. 613. Helvetia 

 Relhani — Sow, t. 11. 



On the earth on heaths. 



Stem 1 to 2 inches long, even, round, fistulose, slenderer 

 than in V. digitaliformis. Pileus slightly fleshy, cam- 

 panulate (Fries). 



I have seen no specimen of this, but the characters 

 are so marked that it must be retained. 



Name — Conus, a cone ; from the shape of the pileus. 



Gogmagog Hills, Cambridgeshire (Relhan). 



Doubtfully recorded. 



Verpa speciosa — Yitt, " Mang," p. 120, t. xv. figs. 

 5-8; "Grevillea," x. p. 51. 



Berkeley and Broome record this doubtfully from 

 Coed Coch, in "Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist," No. 1922, as 

 follows : — " Agreeing in size and colour with Vittadini's 

 figure ; but the sporidia are not oblong, so that there is 

 some doubt about the species." 



Genus V. — Leotia. Hill. 



Receptacle pileate, supported in the centre, orbicular, 

 spreading, revolute at the margin, clothed above and at 

 the margin with the hymenium ; hymenium confluent, 

 undulated or even, persistent ; asci fixed, clavate-cylin- 



