8 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



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

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

 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 hymenium ; the ribs of the hyine- 

 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 — yvpbg, round, fiirpa, a turban ; from the shape 

 of the pileus. 



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



Sporidia subfusiform . . . . . . . . . . gigas. 



1. Gyromitra esculenta. Fries. 



Pileus inflated, irregularly undulated, gyroso-rugose, 

 brown; margin annexed to the even villous stem; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, oblongo-elliptic, biguttulate, 

 20 X 10/x ; 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 mitra — Schseff., 

 " Icon.," t. 160, 161. Helvetia pfialloides — Afz., " Act. 

 Holm," 1783, p. 303. 



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



