26 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
white, pallid, or rufescent ; the pileus at first plane, with 
a slight depression in the centre, then convex, the margin 
sometimes undulating, but generally straight; the stem 
slender, bent, occasionally branched. 
Name—Acicula, a small pin; from its form. 
Near Halifax (Bolton). Pophills (Mrs. Rufford). 
Appin (Capt. Carmichael). Homstock Wood, King’s 
Lynn! (Mr. C. B. Plowright), Attingham Park, Salop ! 
Almond Park, Salop! Ercall Hill, Salop! 
Doubtful Species. 
Leotia nédma—With. (dwarf Leotia). Small; pileus 
lobed, rugose, white, even beneath, and brown; stem 
stuffed, cylindrical, white. 
Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 28; With., iv. p. 296. 
Amongst moss, on a shady bank. 
Pendarvis, Cornwall (Mr. Stackhouse). 
“Pileus snowy-white, leathery, hard, crumpled and 
deflected in various forms, smooth and brown under- 
neath, about 3, of an inch over; stem white, solid, 
smooth, not at all wrinkled, } of an inch high, thick as 
a crow-quill ” (With, 0. ¢.). 
This was included in Berkeley’s “ Outlines,” but ex- 
cluded from Cooke’s “ Handbook.” It is placed here on 
the chance of some plant being discovered answering to 
the description. 
Genus VI.—Mirruta. Fries. 
Receptacle globose or oval, even, immarginate, concrete 
with the stem; substance fleshy; asci cylindrical, or 
ee clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform, hyaline. (Plate IT. 
g. 6. 
Small slender plants, of which there are but six 
species (now that Dr. Cooke has created the genus 
Leploglossum), four of which are British, and are dis- 
tinguished from Leotia by having no decided margin to 
the receptacle, from Leptoglosswm by the broader and 
shorter capitulum, and from Spathularia by the capitu- 
lum not being compressed. 
