8 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



J. E. Leefe). Apethorpe, Northamptonshire (Rev. M. J. 

 Berkeley). Twycross (Rev. A. Bloxam). Orchardleigh, 

 Somersetshire ; Clifton Down, Bristol (Mr. C. Bucknall). 

 Wetherby, Yorkshire (Dr. H. F. Parsons). North Wootton, 

 Norfolk! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Eaton Constantine, 

 Salop ! (Mr. W. E. Beckwith). 



GENUS II. GYROMITRA. Fries. 



Receptacle pileate, stipitate, deflexed, bullato-inflated, 

 clothed above by the hyrnenium ; the ribs of the hyme- 

 nium raised, gyrose, persistent ; substance fleshy ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic or elongate-elliptic, smooth 

 (in British species) ; paraphyses linear. (Plate I. fig. 2.) 



On the earth. Spring. 



In the two British species the pileus is somewhat 

 globose, supported by a short stout stem enlarged at the 

 base. They are esculent, and very rare. 



Name yvpbz, round, juirpa, a turban; from the shape 

 of the pileus. 



Sporidia elliptic .. . . .. .. -. .. esculenta. 



Sporidia subfusiform . . . . . . . . . . 



1. Gyromitra esculenta. Fries. 



Pileus inflated, irregularly undulated, gyroso-rugose, 

 brown ; margin annexed to the even villous stem ; asci 



* O ' 



cylindrical ; sporidia 8, oblongo-elliptic, biguttulate, 

 20 X lOjui ; paraphyses thickened and brown above. 

 (Plate I. fig. 2.) 



Gyromitra esculenta Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.," 

 p. 346 ; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 1842 ; "Mycogr." fig. 328 ; 

 Quelet, " Champ.," pt. i. p. 382. Helvetia esculenta- 

 Pers., "Comm.," p. 64; Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. 16 ; Karst., 

 " Myco. Fenn.," 33 ; B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," 825 ; 

 Badham, "Fung.," ii. t. 12, f. 3-5; Harzer, t. 47; Barla, 

 t. 43, f. 12, 13 ; Lenz, fig. 59, 60. Elvela mitraSchsdff. t 

 "Icon.," t. 160, 161. Helvetia phalloides Afz., "Act. 

 Holm.," 1783, p. 303. 



Exs. Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," ii. 264; Rabh., "Fung. 



