BERKELEY'S TYPES OF FUNGI. 463 
figure in Cooke’s illustration is a copy of Berkeley’s figure 
enlarged tbree times, and the third figure is an imaginary section 
of the same; the ascus with its 8 uniseriate spores is also 
imaginary. The original diagnosis given by Berkeley and Curtis 
is too brief to be of service, and from every point of view— 
unless specimens exist in the United States—the name should 
be allowed to drop. 
HELVELLA GUEPINOIDES, Berk. $ Cooke in herb., Cooke, 
Mycogr. p. 198, fig. 337 (1878) ; Phil. Brit. Disc. p. 15; Gillet, 
Disc. France, p. 12, cum icon.; Sace. Syll. viii. n. 65; Massee, 
Fungus-Flora, vol. iv. p. 462. (Pl. XVI. fig. 2.) 
Pileus nearly entire, drooping on opposite sides and deeply 
depressed at the centre, the margin usually slightly wavy, quite 
free from the sides of the stem ; substance rather thin, almost 
even, ochraceous, paler, even, and almost glabrous underneath, 
2—4 em. across; stem hollow from the first, 4-8 cm. high, up to 
1 em. thick, nearly equal tbroughout, even or with a tendency to 
become lacunose, whitish or with a more or less decided ochraceous 
tinge; asci cylindrical, apex somewhat truucate; spores 8, 
obliquely l-seriate, smooth, continuous, hyaline, elliptical, ends 
obtuse, 18-20 x10-11 u; paraphyses septate, tips clavate. 
On the ground, the type collected by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley 
at Coed Coch, near Bangor, Wales; also met with in France. 
GxRoMITRA TASMANICA, Berk. $ Cooke, Mycogr. p. 193, fig. 
331 (1878); Sace. Syll. vii. n. 40. (Pl. XVI. fig. 1.) 
Pileus drooping, margin more or less lobed, somewhat umbili- 
eate or depressed at the centre, glabrous, rather fleshy, upper 
surface ornamented with slightly raised, anastomosing veins, 
bay-brown, under surface paler, entirely free and distant from 
the sides of the stem, 5-6 cm. across, 4 cin. deep; stem hollow, 
slightly thickened at the base, whitish smooth, somewhat channelled 
longitudinally, 7-8 em. long, 1 cm. or more thick at the apex ; 
asci cylindrical, apex ratber truncate; spores 8, obliquely 1- 
seriate, hyaline, smooth, continuous, elliptical, ends obtuse, 
averaging 25 x12; paraphyses rather stout, clavate and brown 
at the tip, septate. 
Helvella tasmanica, Berk. in herb. 
On the ground. Tasmania (Archer). 
Type in Herb. Kew examined. 
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