LEOTIA. 21 
Terrington St. Clement’s, and North Wootton ! (Mr. 
C. B. Plowright). 
3. Verpa conica. Swartz. 
Pileus campanulate, nearly even, brown, margin sub- 
sinuate, yellow beneath, as well as the equal stem; asci 
cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic. 
Verpa conica—Swartz, “Vet. Ac. Handl,” p. 136; 
Pers., “ Myco. Eur.,” p. 204; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 24; 
“Eng. Filo.,” v. p. 185; Berk., “OutL,” p. 359; Cooke, 
“ Handbk.,” No. 1950; Gill., “Champ.,” p. 21. Phallus 
conicus—‘ Flo. Dan.,” t. 654; Timm, “ Megap.,” p. 263. 
Leotia conica—Pers., “Syn. Fung.,” p. 613. Helvella 
Relhani—Sow., t. 11. 
On the earth on heaths. 
Stem 1 to 2 inches long, even, round, fistulose, slenderer 
than in V. digitaliformis. Pileus slightly fleshy, cam- 
panulate (Fries). 
I have seen no specimen of this, but the characters 
are so marked that it must be retained. 
Name—Conus, a cone ; from the shape of the pileus. 
Gogmagog Hills, Cambridgeshire (Relhan). 
Doubtfully recorded. 
Verpa speciosa—Vitt., “ Mang.,” p. 120, t. xv. figs. 
5-8; “ Grevillea,” x. p. 51. 
Berkeley and Bréome record this doubtfully from 
Coed Coch, in “ Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.,” No. 1922, as 
follows :—“ Agreeing in size and colour with Vittadini’s 
figure; but the sporidia are not oblong, so that there is 
some doubt about the species.” 
Genus V.—Leot1a. Hill. 
Receptacle pileate, supported in the centre, orbicular, 
spreading, revolute at the margin, clothed above and at 
the margin with the hymenium; hymenium confluent, 
undulated or even, persistent ; asci fixed, clavate-cylin- 
