MITRULA. 29 
Gregarious, czspitose, or solitary, soft, glabrous 
hollow, rather brittle, 1 to 3 inches in height ; head very 
variable in form, globose, ovate, or broadly clavate ; 
summit generally obtuse, bright orange yellow, filled 
when young with silky filaments, which disappear with 
age, leaving it hollow; stem white, varying from a 
yellowish to a pinkish tinge, enlarged upwards, even, 
and crooked. 
Name—Palus, a marsh; found in marshes. 
Kames Castle, Isle of Bute (Dr. Greville). Pitlochrie 
(Dr. Thomson). Penzance (Mr. Ralfs). Aboyne, New 
Pitsligo (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Bournemouth; St. 
George’s Hill, Weybridge (Mr. F. Currey). Keston 
Common; Horsham ; Penicuick (Dr. M. C. Cooke). North 
of Ireland (Templeton). Baldovan Woods (Gardener). 
North Wootton, Norfolk (Dr. John Lowe). Trefrew, North 
Wales! Capel Curig, North Wales! Llyn Ogwin, North 
Wales! 
3. Mitrula alba. Wor. Smith. 
Head globose, even, white; stem stuffed, white; asci 
cylindrical ; sporidia lanceolate, hyaline, eguttulate, 
16 xX 3u. 
aia alba—W. G. Smith, “Grevillea,” i. p. 136, 
t. 10, lower figure ; Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” fig. 177. 
Differs entirely from M. paludosa, Fries, in colour, 
and especially in the globose head and stuffed stem (W. 
G. Smith, 7. ¢.). 
Amongst submerged leaves. April, 1877. 
Name—Albus, white. 
East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton (Mr. Cecil H. Sp. 
Perceval). 
Excluded Spectes. 
Mitrula minuta—Sow. (small orange Mitrula). Very 
minute ; receptacle lanceolate, orange ; stem equal, pallid. 
Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” i. p. 492. Clavaria minuta— 
Sow., t. 391. 
On the bractez of Dipsacus pilosus. 
Rayleigh, Essex (Rev. R._B. Francis). 
