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3. L. circinans, P. ; gregarious, somewhat ca^spitose, or 

 arranged in circles ; pileus fleshy, convex, afterwards undu- 

 late, margin involute, nerves underneath running down 

 into stem; stem fistulose, somewhat powdery; asci clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, linear, cylindrical, or clavate, straight or curved, 

 multi-guttulate, 50-60 x 3 mm., paraphyses filiform, curved 

 at apices. — Pers. Icon, et Descr., t. 5,/. 5-7 ; Cooke, Mycogr.^ 



f. 172. 



On the ground in fir woods. Autumn. Forres. Avie- 

 more. Glamis. Menmuir. 



4. L. aeicularis, P. ; gregarious or scattered ; small ; 

 white ; pileus waxy, fragile, undulato-convex, margin 

 straight, under-side granulose ; stem simple or branched, 

 becoming crooked, discoloured ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 fusiform, biguttulate, becoming pseudo-uniseptate, 25-28 



X 4 mm., paraphyses filiform. — Cooke, Mycogr., f. 369. 



On decayed stumps of trees near the ground ; ?>— 1 in. 

 high. Halifax. Pophills. Appen. King's Lynn, etc. 



5. L. nana, Fr. (p. 360). 



249. VIBKISSEA, Fr. (p. 361). 

 A. S'tipitate, 



1. V. truncorum, Fr. (p. 361). 



2. V. Margarita, White ; simple ; head orbicular, 

 orange-vermilion, margin hispid ; stem cylindrical, hir- 

 sute with black articulated hairs ; internally whitish- 

 cinerous ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, filiform, multi- 

 septate, 180 X 2 mm., paraphyses filiform, branched near 

 apices, which are subclavate and brown. — Phill. Transx 

 Linn. Soc, Ser. 2, vol. ii., /. 1,/. 10-16. 



