Massee. — A Monograph of the Geog/osseae. 291 
‘Pileus convex, undulate, not so viscous as L. lubrica ; dark green, J-f in. 
broad. Stem hollow, thick or compressed and sulcate, expanding into 
pileus, covered with a greenish powder, the cavity filled with 
a gelatinous matter. Sometimes caespitose, in clusters of 2-3-4 ; 
growing in light sand beds, mostly preferring roads but little used, 
generally only the pileus appearing above ground. Autumn and 
winter. This is probably the plant which Bose describes as Tremella 
siipitata ( Leotia viscosa , Fr.) ; I think it is a large state of L. chloro- 
cephala. Found in Aiken and in the Santee Canal, S. Car.’ 
When of large size, this form appears to be very distinct, but it 
passes back by every transition into chlorocephala , as observed by 
Ravenel ; and when the stem is yellowish, some forms approach the 
typical form in general appearance. 
The most pronounced features of the species, including its forms, 
are : very slender, branched paraphyses with small piriform tips, ascus 
and spore-measurements as given in the diagnosis, and the minutely 
granulose or squamulose stem, which appears to be pulverulent as 
seen with the naked eye. When the stem is pale coloured, the 
granules are whitish ; when dark coloured, they are green. See note 
under L. atrovirens. 
Specimens of the typical form named by Persoon examined. 
Leotia mareida, Pers., Syn. 613, 1801 ; Pers., Myc. Eur. i, 202, 
1822 ; Fries , Syst. Myc. ii, 28, 1823. (PI. XII, Figs. 18-20.) 
Fasciculate or gregarious, somewhat gelatinous when moist; asci- 
gerous portion pileate, convex then becoming irregular, often more or 
less umbonate, margin incurved, wavy, concave below, thin, yellow, 
about 1 cm. broad; stem 4-10 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick, wavy, equal 
or tapering downwards, coloured like the pileus, every part glabrous. 
Ascus narrowly clavate, apex narrowed and the wall thickened, not 
blue with iodine, 140-150x11-12 fx ; spores 8, 2-seriate above, 
1 -seriate below, fusiform, ends rather acute, usually slightly curved, 
4-6-guttulate, finally 5-septate, 30 x 5 ^ ; paraphyses slender, very 
slightly or not at all thickened at the apex, straight. 
Syn. — Phallus marcidus , Miill., Flor. Dan., tab. 654, f. 1, 1775. 
Cudonia mareida , Quel., Enchirid. 267, 1886 (?). 
Cudoniella mareida , Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 132, 1889. 
Hab. — On the ground among moss, &c. 
Distr. — France, Denmark. 
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