CUDONIA — MITROPHOEA. 473 



of the two species included, one — C. circinans — Las multi- 

 septate spores. 



Growing on the ground in pine woods. 



Cudonia circinans. Fries, Sumnia Yeg. Scand., 

 p. 348; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 165. 



Gregarious or caespitose, usually growing in circles ; 

 pileus fleshy, convex, becoming wavy, margin incurved, 

 pale dingy yellow, often with a brown or pink tinge, 

 glabrous, 1-2 cm. or more broad ; stem 3-5 cm. long, about 

 |- cm. thick, often bent and grooved, glabrous, paler than 

 the pileus ; asci clavate, apex narrowed, 8-ispored ; spores 

 hyaline, elongated, linear-clavate, multiguttulate for a long 

 time, finally becoming multiseptate, curved when free, 

 50-60 x 2 '5— 3 [x; paraphyses very slender, branched, wavy 

 at the tips, longer than the asci. 



Leotia circinans, Pers., Comment., p. 31 ; Cooke, Mycogr., 

 fig. 172 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 24, pi. ii. fig. 5. 



On the ground in fir woods. 



Specimen in Fuckei, Fung. Rhen., n. 1139, examined. 



The pileus is of a soft, fleshy consistence, somewhat 

 rotund, at times much undulated, variable in colour with 

 age and dryness, pallid-yellow, sometimes with a fleshy 

 tinge ; stem 1-2 inches high, \ of an inch thick, crooked, 

 often sulcate, solid or fistulose, expanding upwards into the 

 pileus. (Phillips.) 



The cells of the hypothecium show continuity of proto- 

 plasm as in Spathularia. 



MITEOPHORA. Lev. 



Ascophore stipitate; pileus conical or campanulate, the 

 lower half free from the stem, surface furnished with stout 

 anastomosing ribs enclosing deep, elongated pits ; stem 

 stout, elongated, hollow ; asci cylindrical, 8-spored ; spores 

 hyaline, continuous, elliptical, 1-seriate ; paraphyses septate, 

 clavate. 



Mitrophora, Leveille, Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. iii., vol. v 

 p. 249; (1846); Gillet, Champ. France, Disc, p. 17. 



Morchella, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 2 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. p. 8 



