20 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Exs.—Klotzsch, “Myco. Eur.,” 1629; Rabh., “Fung. 
Eur.,” 1113; “Erb. Crit. Ital.,” ii. 340. 
On hedge-banks. Spring. 
Pileus at first nearly even, olivaceous-umber, dark at 
the apex. Stem obese, furnished at the base with a few 
subrufous radicles, white, with a slight rufous tinge 
marked with transverse rufous spots; smooth to the 
naked eye, but under a lens clothed with fine adpressed 
’ flocci, the rupture of which gives rise to the spots, which 
are, in fact, minute scales. In the mature plant the 
pileus is ? of an inch high, campanulate, digitaliform, or 
subglobose, more or less closely pressed to the stem, but 
always free, the edge sometimes inflexed so as to form a 
white border, wrinkled, but not reticulated, under side 
slightly pubescent; sporidia yellowish, elliptic; stem 
3 inches high, 4 an inch or more thick, slightly attenuated 
downwards, loosely stuffed, by no means hollow (“ Eng. 
Flo.”). 
N ame—Digitale, a finger-stall, and forma, form; 
from the shape of the pileus. 
2. Verpa rufipes (nov. sp.). Phil. 
Pileus conical, rugulose, sublobate, umber, whitish and 
tomentose beneath ; stem ventricose, rufus, squamulose, 
stuffed; asci cylindrical; sporidia, 8, elliptic, faintly 
coloured, 22 x 134; paraphyses filiform, sub-equal, sep- 
tate. (Plate I. fig. 4.) 
i“ Verpa digitaliformis—Phil, in “Elv. Brit.,” exs.. 
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On hedge-banks. Spring. 
The pileus is thin, wrinkled, dark umber, and stands 
well away from the stem; it is nearly white on the 
under side. The stem is much slenderer at the top than 
below, and is tinged within, at the base, with the rufus 
colour of the outside. Height about 14 inches ; broadest 
part of stem 3 of an inch; pileus of an inch high. This 
is intermediate between conica and digitaliformis. 
Name—Rufus, reddish, pes, a foot; from the colour 
of the stem. 
