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The smooth, orbicular, revolute head, with its tumid margin, characterizes this genus. The typical species 
has an extremely wide range. (Name probably from Aetos, smooth.) | 
1. Leotia lubrica (Pers. Syn. p. 613). 
Has. On the ground, Archer. 
Gen. LXVI. MITRULA, Fr. 
Carnoso-mollis, capitatus. Zeceptaculum clavatum, inflatum, a stipite discretum. Asci fixi.—Fungi 
late colorati. 
Distinguished principally from Geoglossum by their brighter colours and different habit. (Name, a diminution 
of Mitra.) 
1. Mitrula vinosa (Berk.) ; vinoso-purpurea, gracilis, lineari-clavata, sporidiis lineari-oblongis mi- 
nutis curvis. 
Has. On dead wood, Archer. 
About 2 inches high, of a vinous-purple. Stem filiform, smooth, swelling above into a cylindrical head. Spo- 
ridia linear-oblong, curved, 4455 inch long.—Closely allied to Mitrula Berterii, M., which is of a deep-brown tint, 
and has the sporidia scarcely curved. 
Gen. LXVII. GEOGLOSSUM, Pers. 
Carnosum. Receptaculum simplex, claveeforme, stipitatum. Hymenium clavam ambiens. Aset 
_elongati.—Fungi saturate colorati. 
The more typical species are very distinct from Mitrula ; others are almost confluent with that genus. The 
only Tasmanian species belongs to a European type, and is very widely diffused. (Name from yy, the earth, and 
yAwooa, a tongue.) 
1. Geoglossum glabrum (Pers. Syn. p. 488). 
Has. On the ground, amongst Moss, and on Fern-stems, Archer. 
Gen. LXVIII. PEZIZA, Dill. 
Receptaculum carnosum vel subcarnosum, marginatum, cupuleforme, primo clausum, subtus sterile. 
Asci fixi. 
This large genus is amply represented in Tasmania, and under a great variety of forms, which belong, how- 
ever, to European types. (Name from Pezica, a term used by Pliny for stemless Fungi.) : 
1. Peziza aurantia (Pers. Obs. ii. p. 76). 
Haz. On the ground, Guan. 
2. Peziza cochleata (Huds.; Fr. Syst. vol. ii. p. 50). 
Haz. On the ground, J. D. H. 
Very irregular, so as to look sometimes like a Psilopezia. 
3. Peziza recurva (Berk.); cupula subsessili undulata convexa recurva badia, sporidiis globosis 
granulatis. (TAB. CLXXXIII. Fig. 12.) 
Haz. On the ground, Archer. 
Cup nearly sessile, dark-bay, 3-3 inch across, 
borders recurved. Asci linear, obtuse. Sporidia globose, 
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inclined to be turbinate, undulated and arched above, with the 
granulated, ez of an inch in diameter.—When moistened, 
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