LEPTOGLOSSUM. 33 
Name—Viridis, green. 
Near Melrose (Mr. Walter Arnott). Appin (Capt. 
Carmichael). Coed Coch; Holm Lacy; Bristol ; Aberyst- 
with ; Kilmory, Fern, N.B. (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Corby 
Castle, Cumberland, and about Carlisle (Dr. Carlyle). 
Tyntesfield, near Bristol (Mr. C. Bucknall). Dinmore, 
Hereford! Moccas Woods, near Hereford! (Mr. C. B. 
Plowright). 
2. Leptoglossum olivacewm. (Pers.) 
Glabrous, dry, smoky olive; stem glabrous, yellowish 
brown, base slightly incrassated, whitish; club com- 
pressed, distinct, as long or longer than the stem, in 
growing old greenish black, white within; asci cylin- 
draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, hyaline,. con- 
tinuous, 25 x 84; paraphyses filiform. 
Geoglossum olivaceum—Pers., “ Obs. Myco.,” i. p. 40, 
t. 5, fig. 7; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,”i. p. 419; Weinm., “ Hym.,” 
498; Berk., “Outl.,” t. 22, £3; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 
1957; “Mycoor.,” fig. 13; Pat., p. 29, f 65; Price, 
t. 16, £102. Microglossum olivacewm—Gill, “ Champ.,” 
p. 26,01 
Exs.—Cooke, “Fung. Brit.,” i. 650, and ed. ii 396; 
Phil, “Ely. Brit.,” 5; Rabh., “Fung. Eur.,” 1820. 
On the ground in open grassy places. Autumn. 
Gregarious or cespitose, from 14 to 2 inches high. 
The club, though distinct from the stem, passes gradually 
into it without any marked depression ; it is compressed, 
sometimes sulcate, and twisted, very variable in outline, 
about } of an inch thick. The stem is cylindrical, usually 
paler than the club, one-third to three-quarters of the 
entire height, } of an inch thick. 
Name— Oliva, an olive; from the olivaceous colour. 
B. purpurewm—Berk. in “Outl,” t. 22, f 2, differs 
only in colour, which is dingy purple; but, as the colour 
of the type is very variable—brown, olive, or purple—it 
is better to take no account of these differences, further 
than calling attention to the fact. 
Name—Purpureus, purple-coloured. 
