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Leotia stagnalis, Massee. 
Ascigerous portion convex, orbicular, the free margin incurved, 
glabrous, waxy, rather firm, yellowish flesh-colour, then dingy, 4-5 mm. 
diameter; stem slender, apex grooved, pale ochraceous, base tinged 
olive, 1-1*5 cm. long, scarcely 1 mm. thick. Asci (?) ; spores con- 
tinuous, narrowly elliptic, 2-guttulate, 12-14 /* long. 
Syn. — Cudonia stagnalis, Qu£l., Assoc. Frang. xii, 1883, 13, pi. 7,f. 10. 
Cudoniella stagnalis , Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 134, 1889. 
Hab. — On leaves and decaying vegetable matter on the margins of 
swamps. 
Distr. — Germany (Alsace, Que'lel). 
Doubtful Species. 
Leotia platypoda, Pers., Myc. Eur. i, 202, 1822 ; Fries , Sysk 
Myc. ii, 28, 1823; Sacc., Syll. viii, n. 2513, 1889. 
This species was first described by De Candolle (Flor. Frang. vi, 
29, 1815) as follows : ‘This species of Helvella is one of the smallest 
of the genus, and rarely reaches more than six lines high ; its consis- 
tence is gelatinous, slightly coriaceous; the pedicel is entirely com- 
pressed, of a dirty white colour, terminated by an irregularly wrinkled 
or undulated, small, brownish cap, the margin slightly turned down. 
M. Aubin found this fungus growing on the ground in the neighbour- 
hood of Grasse, in Provence.’ 
Syn. — Helvella platypoda , De Candolle, Flor. France, vi, 29, 1815. 
Hab. — On the ground. 
Distr. — F ranee. 
The above description does not convey a very clear conception as 
to what the species was like that De Candolle had in view. Patouillard 
(Tab. Analyt. Fung. n. 447) had figured and described a fungus which 
he considers to be the species of De Candolle, collected by MM. Bom- 
mer and Rousseau, near Brussels. His description is as follows : — 
‘Fungus i-2 cm. high. Pileus gelatinous, wrinkled, undulated, 
russet. Stem compressed at the summit, attenuated below, whitish. 
Asci containing eight spores, 2-seriate; spores elongated, clavate, 
3-4-guttulate, hyaline; paraphyses branched.’ 
According to the figure the spores are narrowly cylindric-clavate, 
21-2 2 x 5-6 [X. 
