20 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Exs.— Klotzsch, "Myco. Eur.," 1629; Rabh., "Fung. 

 Eur.," 1113; "Erb. Crit. Ital.," ii. 340. 



On hedge-banks. Spring. 



Pileus at first nearly even, olivaceous-umber, dark at 

 the apex. Stem obese, furnished at the base with a few 

 subrufous radicles, white, with a slight rufous tinge 

 marked, with transverse rufous spots ; smooth to the 

 naked eye, but under a lens clothed with fine adpressed 

 flocci, the rupture of which gives rise to the spots, which 

 are, in fact, minute scales. In the mature plant the 

 pileus is | of an inch high, campanulate, digitaliform, or 

 subglobose, more or less closely pressed to the stem, but 

 always free, the edge sometimes inflexed so as to form a 

 white border, wrinkled, but not reticulated, under side 

 slightly pubescent ; sporidia yellowish, elliptic ; stem 

 3 inches high, J an inch or more thick, slightly attenuated 

 downwards, loosely stuffed, by no means hollow (" Eng. 

 Flo."). 



Name — Digitate, a finger-stall, and forma, form ; 

 from the shape of the pileus. 



2. Verpa rufipes (nov. sp.). Phil. 



Pileus conical, rugulose, sublobate, umber, whitish and 

 tomentose beneath ; stem ventricose, rufus, squamulose, 

 stuffed ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, faintly 

 coloured, 22 X 13yit; paraphyses filiform, sub-equal, sep- 

 tate. (Plate I. fig. 4.) 



Verpa digitaliformis — Phil, in " Elv. Brit.," exs. 

 No. 52. 



On hedge-banks. Spring. 



The pileus is thin, wrinkled, dark umber, and stands 

 well away from the stem ; it is nearly white on the 

 under side. The stem is much slenderer at the top than 

 below, and is tinged within, at the base, with the rufus 

 colour of the outside. Height about 1 J inches ; broadest 

 part of stem f of an inch ; pileus § of an inch high. This 

 is intermediate between conica and digitaliformis. 



Name — Rufus, reddish, pes, a foot ; from the colour 

 of the stem. 



