32 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Key To THE SPECIES. 
Hymenium eruginous green .. “es sca ws viride. 
Hymenium smoky olive or dingy purple oe .. olivaceum. 
1. Leptoglossum viride. (Pers.) 
Fasciculate, verdigris-green ; receptacle distinct ; stem 
squamulose ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong- 
elliptic, hyaline, 15 x 54; paraphyses filiform, hardly 
enlarged upwards. (Plate II. fig. 8.) : 
Geoglossum viride—Pers., “Comm.,” p. 40; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” i. 48; Weinm., “Hym.,” p. 498; Grev., 
“Se. Crypt. Flo,” t. 211; Sturm, “Flo,” t. 48; Nees, 
“ Sys.,” t. 17, p. 158; “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 179; Berk, 
“OutL,” p. 361; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 1956 ; “ Mycogr.,” 
tig. 14; Kickx., “Flo. Flan.,” i. 501; Seer., “ Mycogr.,” 
iii. 621; Fekl., “Symb. Myco.,” 284; Quelet, “Champ.,” 
p. 377; Pat., p. 29, £66. Mitrula viridis-—Karst., “Myco. 
Fenn.,” i. 29.  Clavaria mitrata viridis—Holms., “ Ot.,” 
p. 24 C. viridis—“Flo. Dan.,” t. 1258, f. 1. C. Ser- 
pentina—Mul.., “ Zool. Dan.,” p. 256. Leotia geoglossoides 
—Corda, “Icon.,” iii. p. 37, t. vi. f£. 94. Microglossum 
viridi—Gill, “Champ.,” p. 26, ¢. i. 
Exs.—Fekl., “F. Rh.,” 1140; Rehm., “ Asco.,” 151; 
Rabh., “ Fung. Eur.,” 524 and 1625; Desm., “Crypt. Fr.,” 
i, 423 ; Karst., “Fung. Fenn.,” 449; Cooke, “Fung. Brit.,” 
ed. ii. 395; Phil. “Elv. Brit.,” 54. 
On the ground in woods, amongst moss and decaying 
leaves. Autumn. Qualities unknown. 
From 1 to 3 inches high; about 4} of an inch in 
broadest part. The club-shaped head is generally obtuse 
at the summit, and terminates abruptly and unevenly 
at the base, occupying about one-third to one-half the 
entire length of the plant, not unfrequently compressed, 
glabrous, and, when wet, slippery; the stem is cylindrical, 
squamulose, rather paler than the head; the flesh is also 
green; the asci are narrowly clavate; the sporidia 
elliptic-oblong ; paraphyses abundant; gelatina hymenia 
greenish. The sporidia in my Herefordshire specimens 
did not exceed the size given above, but Dr. Cooke 
(“ Mycogr.”) gives 30 x 10u. 
