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pileus and stem dark zruginous green. The Rev. M. J. 
Berkeley says the tint of green is so dark that it is 
nearly black. 
On the ground. Not edible. 
Name—yAupée, green, xepadr, a head. 
Hampshire (Miss Broadwood). 
Form Stevensoni. Berk. 
Short, densely czespitose; pileus and stem green. 
B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.” No. 1827. Steven., 
“Myco. Scot.,” p. 297. ' 
On damp ground in woods. 
Name—After the Rev. John Stevenson. 
Glamis, Hunter’s Hill (Rev. J. Stevenson). 
B. CUDONIA, Fries. 
8. Leotia circinams. Pers. 
Gregarious, somewhat cespitose, or arranged in 
circles; pileus fleshy, convex, afterwards undulate; 
margin involute, nerves underneath running down into 
the stem ; stem fistulose, somewhat powdery; asci clavate ; 
sporidia 8, linear, cylindrical, or clavate, straight or 
curved, multi-guttulate, 50—60 x 3u; paraphyses filiform, 
curved at the apices. (Plate IT. fig. 5.) 
Leotia circinans—Pers., “Comm.,” p. 31; “Icon. et 
Deser.,” p. 16, t. 5, figs. 5-7; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 27 ; 
Steven., “ Myco. Scot.,” p. 297; Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” f. 172. 
Cudonia circinans—Fekl., “Symb. Myco.,” 332; Karst., 
“Myco. Fenn.,” p. 25. Leotia gracilis—Pers., “ Myco. 
Eur.” 1 198. Helot circinans—Swartz, “Vet. Ac. 
Handl.,” 1812, p. 15. Helvella revoluta—Wahl,, “ Ups.,” 
p. 464, Leotia lutea—Peck (sub. Vibrissea) in “ Reports 
New York Museum”; Cooke in “Bullet. Buff §. N. 
Se.,” a Cudonia circinans—Quelet, “ Champ.,” pt. ii. 
p- 880., 
Exs.—Karst., “Fung. Fenn.,” 153; Rabh., “ Fung. 
Eur.,” 38, 312; Fekl., “ F. Rh,,” No. 1139, 
