Leotia 37 



Ascophores entirely yellowish-ochraceous, sometimes oli- 

 vaceous. 1. L. lubrica. 



Hymenium aeruginous-green; stem white to yellowish. 2. L. stipitata. 



Ascophores entirely green; stem furfuraceous, substance 



firm, stems slender. 3. L. chlorocephala. 



According to Durand the type of CiidonieUa is a Leotia. 

 The color varies much in the species listed above, but the 

 three listed seem to be reasonably distinct. 



1. Leotia lubrica (Scop.) Pers. Neucs Mag. Bot. 1: 97. 1794. 

 (Plate 82, Fig. 1.) 



Elvela lubrica Scop. Fl. Carn. 2: 477. 1772. 

 Helvetia gelatinosa Bull. Hist. Champ. Fr. 296. 1791. 



Ascophores usually densely cespitose, stipitate, more or less 

 viscid-gelatinous, ochraceous-yellow, often with a greenish or 

 olive tint, 3-6 cm. or more high; ascigerous portion pileate, 

 convex above, the surface often irregularly furrowed, with a 

 recurved margin, wrinkled or nodulose, 1-1.5 cm. or more broad; 

 stem terete or somewhat compressed, usually tapering slightly 

 upward, the adjacent ones often coalescing below, about 1 cm. 

 thick below, .5 cm. above, up to 5 cm. or more high, minutely 

 squamulose, sometimes with innate, greenish granules; asci 

 narrowly clavate, apices rounded, slightly narrowed, not blue 

 with iodine, reaching a length of 130-160 y. and a diameter of 

 10-12 ju, 8-spored; spores 2-seriate above, 1-seriate below, hya- 

 line, smooth, cylindric-oblong to fusiform, ends obtuse, or sub- 

 acute, straight or curved, 5-6 X 18-28 /x (20-23), at first simple, 

 then with three to eight oil-drops, finally becoming 5-7-septate; 

 paraphyses filiform, branched, the apices clavate to pyriform, 

 hyaline, the tips agglutinated by amorphous matter. 



On rich humus or sandy soil rarely on rotten wood, in woods. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Ontario to Alabama and Iowa; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 473, f. 2; Sow. Engl. 

 Fungi pi. 70: Fl. Dan. pi. 719; Berk. Outl. Brit. Fung. pi. 22, 

 f. 1; Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. pi. 56; Cooke, Mycographia pi. 44, 

 f. 171; Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. pi. 23; Rab. Krypt.-Fl. 1'^: 1161, 

 /. 1-4; Ann. Bot. 11: pi. 13, J. 61-64; Atk. Mushrooms/. 221; 

 Ann. Myc. 6: pi. 11, f. 106; pi. 20, f. 213;Seaver, Bull. Lab. Nat. 

 Hist. State Univ. Iowa pi. 2,f. 1; Mycologia 2: pi. 17, f. 1. 



ExsicCATi: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 57; Ellis & Ev. Fungi Co- 

 in mb. 1738. 



