28 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
globose, subclavate, or conical, of a yellowish red or pale 
cinnamon colour, and fleshy texture; the stem is rather 
firm, darker in colour than the head, even, solid, and 
flexuous. 
Name—Cucullus, a hood; from the shape of the 
ileus. 
: Balmuto, Scotland (Miss Boswell), Near Norwich 
(Sowerby). Bungay (D. Stock). Wiltshire (Mr. C. E. 
Broome). Castle Rising, Norfolk! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
Joydens Wood (Mr. F. Currey). Linlithgow; Hunslow, 
Middlesex (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Wrekin, Salop! 
Penicuick, near Edinburgh ! 
2. Mitrula paludosa. Fries, 
Head ovate, obtuse, inflated, even, yellow or orange 
yellow ; stem rather slender, straight or flexous, hollow, 
paler than the head; asci subcylindrical; sporidia 8, 
nearly fusiform, 12—14 x 3:54; paraphyses filiform. 
(Plate II. fig. 6.) 
Mitrula spaludosa—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” i. 491; 
“Summa Veg. Scan.,” 346; “Eng. Bot.,” v. p. 180; Berk., 
“Outl,” p. 360; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 1952; Huss., 
“Myco.,” i. t. 9; Karst, “Myco, Fenn,” p. 28; Fekl., 
“Symb. Myco.,” 332; Kickx., “ Flo. Flan.,” i. 501; Crouan, 
“Flo, Fin,” 58; Cooke, “Mycogr.” fig. 175; Quelet, 
“Champ.,” pt. i. p. 378; Gill, “ Champ.,” p. 27, ci; Pat., 
p. 39, £ 7 (spor. bad). Clavaria phalloides—Bull., 
“Champ.,” t. 465, £3. C. epiphylla—Dicks., “Crypt.,” 
t. 3, f 10. Leotia Ludwigii—Pers,, “Syn. Fung.,” t. 3, 
f. 13. L. Dicksonii, L. Bulliardi, L. laricina—Pers., 
“Syn. Fung,” 612. L. uliginosa—Grev., “Se. Crypt. 
Flo.,” t. 312; Pers., “Myco. Eur.,” i. 200. 
Exs.—Klotzsch, “ H. M.,” 238; Desm., “Crypt. Fr.,” i. 
606 ; Rabh., “Herb. Myco.,” 182; Fekl., “F. Rh,” 1286; 
Berk., “ Brit. Fung.,” 278; Phil, “Elv. Brit,” 2; Karst., 
“Fung. Fenn.,” 24; Winter, “Fungi Eur.,” 2844; Rehm., 
“ Asco.,” 601; Ellis, “N. A. Fungi,” 433. 
On decaying leaves in wet places. Spring to 
autumn. Qualities unknown. 
