VERPA. 19 



Name — tyunriogy belonging to a horse; from the 

 saddle-shaped pileus. 



King's Cliffe and Apethorpe (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 

 Near Bristol (Mr. C. E. Broome). Sufton Court, Here- 

 fordshire ! Thuxton, Herefordshire ! Wrekin, Salop ! Coed 

 Coch, North Wales. 



Genus IV. — Verpa. Swartz. 



Receptacle clavato-pileate, supported in the centre, 

 equally deflexed all round, conical, concave beneath, 

 free, entirely clothed above with the hymenium ; hyme- 

 nium even or wrinkled, not ribbed, persistent ; substance 

 fleshy — membranaceous; stem always present, hollow, 

 nearly distinct from the pileus ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 

 8, elliptic ; paraphyses filiform. (Plate I. fig. 4.) 



The pileus in this genus is conical, neither inflated 

 nor lobate, nearly even, with the margin pressed to the 

 stem, but free (Cooke, "Mycogr," p. 215). 



Name — Verpa, a Latin word synonymous with 



Three species .. .» . . .. .. .. 1-3 



Key to the Species. 



Pileus obtuse at the summit . . . . . . . . (licjitaliformis. 



Pileus subacute at the summit . . . . 1 



. (Stem yellow, eqiial . . . . . . . . . . conica. 



' (Stem rufus, ventricose . . . . . . . . . . rufipes. 



1. Verpa digitaliformis. Pers. 



Pileus campanulate, finger-shaped, rugulose, umber; 

 stem equal, transversely squamulose; asci cylindrical; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, 23 — 25 X 20/x; paraphyses septate, 

 clavate above, brown, granular within. 



Verpa digitaliformis — Pers., " Myco. Eur.," 202, t. 7, 

 f. 1.-3; Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. 24;' Cooke, "Handbk." 

 No. 1949; "Mycogr," fig. 364; Berk, "Outl.," t. 21, f . 6 ; 

 Corcla in Sturm, " Flo." t. 7, f. 6 ; Payer, fig. 380 ; Vitt, 

 Mang," 1. 15, f. 1-3 ; Barla, t. 44, f. 1-6 ; Quelet, " Champ," 

 pt. i. p. 380 ; Gill, " Champ," p. 20, c. i. 



