LEOTIA. 25 
On the ground in fir woods. Autumn. Not edible. 
Named from its habit of growing in circles. The 
pileus is of a soft fleshy consistence, somewhat rotund, 
at times much undulated, variable in colour with age 
and dryness, pallid-yellow, sometimes with a fleshy 
tinge; stem 1 to 2 inches high, } of an inch thick, 
crooked, often sulcate, solid or fistulose, expanding up- 
wards into the pileus. 
Name—Cirecino, to make round; from growing in 
Forres, Scotland ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Aviemore, Scot- 
land! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Glamis, Crane’s Hill, Scot- 
land! (Rev. J. Stevenson). Menmuir, Scotland (Rev. 
M. J. Berkeley). 
4, Leotia acicularis. Pers. 
Gregarious or scattered, small, milk-white; pileus 
waxy, fragile, undulate-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 Au 
paraphyses filiform. 
Leotia acicularis—Pers., “ Obs.,” ii. p. 20, +. 5, fig. 1; 
t. 6, figs. 1, 2. Fungus minimus——Ray., “Sy nL, # Pp. 12 ; 
“ Hist.,” iii. p. 24. Helvella acicularis—Bull., ve Champ. 
p- 296, 't 473, £1. Helvella agariciformis—Bolt., i ‘ee 
t. 98, f. 1; Sow., “Fung.” t. 57. Helotium aciculare— 
Pers., “ ‘Syn. Fung.,” 677; “ Myco. Eur.,” 343 : Fries, “Sys. 
Myco.,” li. p. 156; A. and 8., 349. Peziza acicularis— 
“Eng. Flo.” v. p. 208, Berk., “OutL,” 371, Cooke, 
“Handbk.,” No. 2129 ; Steven. “ Myco. Scot., x p. 328. 
Cudonia Queletii—Fries, “Teon. Select.,” fas. vi.; Quelet, 
“Champ.,” pt. i. p. 380, Gill., “ Champ.,” p. 23, ¢. i, Leotia 
sda cam fe Mycogr.,” ‘fig. 369. 
Exs.—Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” No. 400 ; Roumg., “ Fung. 
Gal.,” 1210. 
On decayed stumps of trees, near the ground. 
Autumn. 
Varying from }4 an inch to 1 inch or more high, 
