ViBRISSEA 39 



1-seriate below, hyaline or with a faint greenish tint, narrowly 

 ellipsoid to ellipsoid-fusiform, ends obtuse or subacute, at first 

 simple, finally about 5-septate, straight or curved, 5-6 X 18-20 n; 

 paraphyses filiform, branched, the apices pyriform, green. 



On sandy soil in rich woods, on knolls, or along wood roads 

 or among mosses in ravines. 



Type locality: Salem, North Carolina. 



Distribution : New Hampshire to Alabama. 



Illustrations: Cooke, Mycographia pi. 44, f. 174; Ann. 

 Myc. 6: pi. 11 J. 110; pi. 20, f. 211, 2i2; Mycologia 2: pi. 17, f. 2. 



Doubtful and Excluded Species 



Leotia exigim Schw. Schr. Nat. Ges. Leipzig 1: 113. 1822; Mitrula e.xigua 

 Fries, Elench. Fung. 1: 235. 1828. Durand states: "No specimens are 

 known to be in existence, certainly not in the herbaria of Schweinitz or Fries. 

 It was probably Helotiaceous." 



Leotia mjundibuliformis (Schaeff.) Fries, Obs. Myc. 2: 299. 1818; 

 Elvela infundibuliformis Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: Ind. 111. 1774. Durand 

 states: "Whatever may be thought of the European specimens the one pre- 

 served in the Schweinitzian herbarium, from New York, is an Helvetia related 

 to H. elastica." 



Leotia marcida (Mull.) Pers. Syn. 613. 1801; Phallus marcidus Mull. Fl. 

 Dan. Fasc. II: 7, pi. 654, f. 1. 1777. Durand states: "This species has been 

 reported several times from the United States, but all the specimens which I 

 have been able to examine, both from Europe and America, are indistinguish- 

 able internally from L. lubrica." 



Leotia rufa Rostrup, Med. Gr0nl. 3: 536. 1888. "Pileus repandus, 

 margine revoluto, latit. 1-2 mm. rufus; stipes inaequaliter teres, furo-ferru- 

 gineus, altit. 5-6 mm. Asci cylindraceo-clavati, pedicellati, long. 60-70 m crass. 

 2 M- Inter, muscos. Agdluitsok [Greenland] (Vahl)." Durand states: "The 

 above is Rostrup's original description. I saw a small fragment of the original 

 collection in the Botanical Museum Copenhagen, but did not examine it 

 microscopically. It is probably Helotiaceous." 



Leotia chlorocephala f. Stevensoni (Berk. & Br.) Massee, Brit. Fungus — Fl. 

 4: 472. 1895; Leotia Stevensoni Berk. & Br. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. V. 3: 212. 

 1879. This form has been reported from Missouri by J. B. Routien (My- 

 cologia 34: 579. 1942). The writer has no knowledge of the form. 



9. VIBRISSEA Fries, Syst. Myc. 2:31. 1822. 



Ascophores stipitate, pileate, soft, waxy, or subgelatinous; 

 ascigerous portion hemispherical, bearing the hymenium on its 

 upper, convex surface, sterile below; asci long-cylindric, narrow, 

 8-spored, spores in a parallel fascicle and nearly as long as the 

 ascus, hyaline, filiform, many-septate; paraphyses slender. 



