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globose, subclavate, or conical, of a yellowish reel or pale 

 cinnamon colour, and fleshy texture ; the stem is rather 

 firm, darker in colour than the head, even, solid, and 

 flexuous. 



Name — Cucullus, a hood; from the shape of the 

 pileus. 



Balmuto, Scotland (Miss Boswell). Near Norwich 

 (Sowerby). Bungay (D. Stock). Wiltshire (Mr. C. E. 

 Broome). Castle Rising, Norfolk ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 

 Joydens Wood (Mr. F. Currey). Linlithgow ; Hunslow, 

 Middlesex (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Wrekin, Salop ! 

 Penicuick, near Edinburgh ! 



2. Mitrula pedudosa. Fries. 



Head ovate, obtuse, inflated, even, yellow or orange 

 yellow ; stem rather slender, straight or fiexous, hollow, 

 paler than the head; asci subcylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 nearly fusiform, 12 — 14 X 3'5/j. ; paraphyses filiform. 

 (Plate II. fig. 6.) 



Mitrula pedudosa — Fries, " Sys. Myco.," i. 491 ; 

 " Summa Veg. Scan.," 346 ; " Eng. Bot./' v. p. 180 ; Berk., 

 "Outl." p. 360; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 1952; Huss., 

 "Myco.," i. t. 9; Karst, "Myco. Fenn," p. 28; Fckl., 

 " Symb. Myco.," 332 ; Kickx, " Flo. Flan.," i. 501 ; Crouan, 

 "Flo. Fin.," 58; Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 175; Quelet, 

 " Champ.," pt. i. p. 378 ; Gill., " Champ.," p. 27, c. i. ; Pat., 

 p. 39, f. 97 (spor. bad). Clavaria phalloides — Bull., 

 " Champ.," t. 465, f. 3. C. epiphylla — Dicks., " Crypt.," 

 t. 3, f. 10. Leotia Ludivigii — Pers., " Syn. Fung.," t. 3, 

 f. 13. L. Dicksonii, L. Bidliardi, L. laricina — Pers , 

 "Syn. Fung.," 612. L. uliginosa — Grev., "Sc. Crypt. 

 Flo.," t, 312; Pers., "Myco. Eur," i. 200. 



Exs.— Klotzsch, " H. M.," 238 ; Desm, " Crypt. Fr.," i. 

 606; Rabh, "Herb. Myco," 132; Fckl, "F. Rh," 1236; 

 Berk, " Brit. Fung," 278; Phil, "Elv. Brit," 2; Karst, 

 " Fung. Fenn," 24 ; Winter, " Fungi Eur," 2844 ; Rehm, 

 "Asco," 601 ; Ellis, "N. A. Fungi," 433. 



On decaying leaves in wet places. Spring to 

 autumn. Qualities unknown. 



