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colour when occurring in alpine streams. Very beautiful specimens 
were found by Mr. G. Nicholson, Curator of the Royal Gardens, Kew, 
in a small stream in the Gadmenthal, opposite Feldmoos, Switzerland, 
in September, 1896. Peck’s var. albipes is nothing more than the 
typical form, which was originally described and figured by Albertine 
and Schweinitz as having a white stem. When removed from the 
water in which it grows, every part of the fungus becomes darker in 
colour. 
Vibrissea eireinans, Hazsl. , Rendh. Koggornbak, in Ung. Akad. 
d. Wiss. xi, 15, 1881. (PI. XII, Figs. 13, 14.) 
Gregarious, often growing in circles; ascigerous portion fleshy, 
somewhat viscid when moist, pileate, convex, becoming more or less 
irregular, margin incurved, usually wavy; under surface concave, 
minutely wrinkled, the ridges often running down the stem, glabrous, 
pale yellowish flesh-colour or yellowish, 1-2-5 cm - broad ; stem 2-6 cm. 
long, often crooked, imperfectly hollow, cylindrical or thickened above 
or below, pallid or reddish, pulverulent, glabrous. Asci clavate, apex 
rather acutely narrowed, pore not blue with iodine, 150-180 x 10-12 /z; 
spores 8, arranged in a parallel fascicle, linear-clavate, often slightly 
curved, at first multiguttulate, then multiseptate, 50-60 x 2 j u ; para- 
physes filiform, sometimes branched, tips not thickened, often 
curved. 
Syn. — Leotia eireinans , Pers., Comm. Fung. Clav. 31, 1797 ; Pers., 
Icon, et Descr. 16, t. 5, f. 5-7, 1798-1800 ; Fries, Syst. Myc. ii, 27, 
1823 j Cke., Mycogr. 97, fig. 172, 1879; Phil., Brit. Disc. 24, pi. ii, 
f. 5, 1887. 
Helotium eireinans , Swartz, Vet. Akad. Handl. p. 15, 1812. 
Cudonia eireinans , Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 348, 1846; Rehm, 
Kr.-Fh, n. 5887, 1896; Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 165, 1889. 
Leotia gracilis, Pers., Myc. Eur. i, 198, 1722. 
Helvetia revoluta , Wahlb., FI. Upsal. 464, 1820. 
Exs. — Rabenh., Fung. Eur. n. 38 and 312 (called Podonia eireinans 
(Pers.), Fries , Mspt.) ; Karst., Fung. Fenn. n. 153; Thum Myc. 
Univ. n. 1809; FckL, Fung. Rhen. n. 1139 ; Roum ., Fung. Sel. Exs. 
4738 . 
Hab.—~ Among moss, &c., in woods, chiefly pine. 
' Disir. — Britain, France, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Germany, 
Bohemia, Austria, Finland, Lapland, United States. 
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