MYCOLOGIA 



Vol. II January, 1910 No. i 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF FUNGI— V 



William A. Murrill 



Most of the species here figured belong to the Gasteromycetes. 

 The illustrations were made from specimens collected in or near 

 Bronx Park," New York City. The three species of Leotia, 

 belonging to the Discomycetes, were found at Chappaqua, New 

 York. The descriptions of these three species are mainly drawn 

 from Durand's excellent monograph of the Geoglossaceae of 

 North America. 



Leotia lubrica (Scop.) Pers. 

 Yellow Leotia 



Plate 17. Figure i. X i 



Plants usually densely clustered, more or less viscid-gelatinous, 

 ochraceous-yellow, often with a greenish or olive tint, especially 

 with age or on partial drying, 3-6 cm. or more high ; ascigerous 

 portion pileate, convex above, the surface often irregularly fur- 

 rowed, with a recurved 'margin, wrinkled or nodulose, 1-1.5 cm. 

 broad: stem terete or somewhat compressed, usually slightly 

 tapering upward, the adjacent ones often coalescing below, about 

 I cm. thick below, 0.5 cm. thick above, minutely squamulose, 

 sometimes with innate greenish granules; asci narrowly clavate, 

 130-160 X 10-12 /x; spores 8, hyaline, smooth, subfusiform, 18- 

 28 X 5-6 /X, becoming 5-7-septate; paraphyses filiform, branched, 

 hyaline. 



This species, said to be edible, is the commonest member of the 

 Geoglossaceae in the eastern United States, occurring on rich 

 humus or sandy soil in woods from Ontario to Alabama and 

 west to Iowa. It is very variable in color and consistency, being 



[Mycologia for November, 1909, was issued December i, 1909] 



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