252 NATURAL HISTORY BULLETIN. 



Spathularia clavata (Schaeff.) Sacc. 

 Plate I, fig. i. 



1800 Elvella clavata Schaeff er, t. CXLIX. 



1801 Spathularia Jlavida Persoon, Syn. Fung., II, p. 610. 

 1818 Spath it /aria Jlavida Martius, Flora Crpt. Erlang. , p. 400. 

 1860 Spathularia jlavida Berkeley, Outl. of Brit. Fung., p. 360. 

 1871 Spathularia Jlavida Cooke, Handbk. of Brit. Fung., II, p. 661. 

 1884 Spathularia Jlovid a Ellis and Everhart, N. A. Fung. No. 1268. 

 1887 Spathularia Jlavida Phillips, Brit. Disc, p. 30. 



1889 Spathularia clavata Saccardo, Sylloge Fung. , VIII, p. 48. 



1896 Spathularia clavata Underwood, Minn. Bot. Studies, reprint, p. 498. 



Receptacle spatulate, compressed, nearly even, yellow; mar- 

 gin often crisped or undulated, i to 3 inches high; stem light 

 colored, whitish; asci clavate; sporidia S, filiform, 50 to 60 by 

 2 to 3 microns, guttulate or granular within; paraphyses fili- 

 form, branched, numerous. 



Habitat — On the ground in woods, summer; collected by 

 B. Shimek, Winneshiek county, Iowa. 



Plants distinguished by their yellow color. The pileus is 

 flattened laterally so as to be spoon-shaped or spatulate and is 

 often much contorted and twisted. The plants are found 

 among leaves and sticks on damp soil in woods. 



Genus II— L E O T I A Hill. 



Receptacle stipitate, gelatinous, pileate, roundish or spread- 

 ing, revolute at the margin; hymenium covering the upper 

 surface and the margin of pileus, under surface sterile; hymen- 

 ium undulated or even. Stem cylindrical or laterally com- 

 pressed. Asci clavate, 8-spored; sporidia fusiform or linear, 

 colorless. 



Leotia stipitata (fiosc.) Schrceter. 

 Plate I, fig. n. 



1823 Leotia chlorocephala Fries, Syst. Myc. , II, p. 30. 



1874 Leotia chlorocephala Berkeley, Grev. , III, p. 149. 



1887 Leotia chlorocephala Phillips, Brit. Disc., p. 23. 



1889 Leotia chlorocephala Saccardo Sylloge Fung. VIII, p. 609. 



1896 Leotia chlorocephala Underwood, Minn. Bot. Studies, reprint, p. 498. 



1897 Leotia stipiata Engler-Prantl, Pflan. Famil. , II, p. 166. 



