LEPTOGLOSSUM. 3.'* 



Name — Viridis, green. 



Near Melrose (Mr. Walter Arnott). Appin (Capt. 

 Carmichael). Coed Coch ; Holm Lacy ; Bristol ; Aberyst- 

 with ; Kilmory, Fern, N.B. (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Corby 

 Castle, Cumberland, and about Carlisle (Dr. Carlyle). 

 Tyntesfield, near Bristol (Mr. C. Bucknall). Dinmore, 

 Hereford ! Moccas Woods, near Hereford ! (Mr. C. B. 

 Plowright). 



2. Leptoglossum olivaceum. (Pers.) 



Glabrous, dry, smoky olive ; stem glabrous, yellowish 

 brown, base slightly incrassated, whitish ; club com- 

 pressed, distinct, as long or longer than the stem, in 

 growing old greenish black, white within ; asci cylin- 

 draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, hyaline, con- 

 tinuous, 25 x 8/u ; paraphyses filiform. 



Geoglossum olivaceum — Pers., " Obs. Mvco," i. p. 40, 

 t. 5, fig. 7 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," i. p. 419 ; Weinm, « Hym," 

 498 ; Berk., " OutL," t. 22, f. 3 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 

 1957; "Mycogr," fig. 13; Pat., p. 29, f. 65; Price, 

 t. 16, f. 102. Microglossum olivaceum — Gill., " Champ.," 

 y) 26 c i 



Exs.— Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," i. 650, and ed. ii. 396; 

 Phil., " Elv. Brit," 5 ; Rabh, " Fung. Eur," 1820. 



On the ground in open grassy places. Autumn. 



Gregarious or csespitose, from 1J to 2 inches high. 

 The club, though distinct from the stem, passes gradually 

 into it without any marked depression ; it is compressed, 

 sometimes sulcate, and twisted, very variable in outline, 

 about \ of an inch thick. The stem is cylindrical, usually 

 paler than the club, one-third to three-quarters of the 

 entire height, \ of an inch thick. 



Name — Oliva, an olive ; from the olivaceous colour. 



j3. purpureum—'BQYk. in "OutL," t. 22, f. 2, differs 

 only in colour, which is dingy purple ; but, as the colour 

 of the type is very variable — brown, olive, or purple — it 

 is better to take no account of these differences, further 

 than calling attention to the fact. 



Name — Puvpureus, purple-coloured. 



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