MORCHELI A 



PILEUS A.DNATE AT THE BASE. 



1. MorcheUa escidenta. (Linn.") 



Pileus round, ovate, or oblong, adnate at the base to 

 tlie Btem ; ribs firm, anastomosing, intervals forming 

 pits; stem even; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 20 — 22 X lO/i; paraphyses filiform, slightly thickened 

 above. (Plate I. fig. 1.) 



Phallus escvZentvs — Linn., " Suec," L262 ; SchaefT., 

 1. 199 ; Bolt., t. 91. MorcheUa esculenta — Pers., 1. c. ; Fries, 

 " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 6 ; Tratt., " Essb. Schw.," p. 208, f. ee ; 

 Harzer, t. 50; Favre-Guill., 47; Vitt., "Mang.," t. xiv. 

 f. 5, xiii. f. 1-3; Lenz, figs. 64, 65; Rabh., " Krypt. Flo.," 

 i. p. 382 ; Hussey, i. t. 13 ; Badham, t. 12, f. 6 ; Fries, " At. 

 Sv.," t. 54; Cooke, "Handbk," p. 655, c. i. ; "Mycogr.," 

 f. 312, 313; Karst., "Myco. Fenn.," p. 32; Quelet, 

 "Champ.," pt. i. p. 382; Gill., "Champ," p. 15, c. i. 



Exsiccati — Cooke, " Fung. Brit," ed. i. 645, ed. ii. 

 181; Fckl, "F. Rh," 1243; Karst, "Fung. Fenn," 139; 

 Phil, "Elv. Brit," 1; Rav., "Fung. Car," i. 36; Rehm., 

 "Asco," 501; Thum, " Mycoth. Univ.," 714; Ellis, "N. 

 A. Fungi," 979. 



Odour faint, taste grateful. Stem rarely hollow, or, 

 except in the young state, stuffed ; one inch long (but 

 very variable) ; soft, white, squamulose on the surface ; 

 not truly striate, sometimes equal, sometimes attenuate ; 

 pileus more or less ovate, obtuse ; ribs frequently anas- 

 tomosing, without transverse ribs ; but as regards form, 

 magnitude, and colour, very variable (Fries, I. a). 



On the earth in spring and summer. 



Name — Escidentus, esculent. 



Blair Athol (Dr. Greville) ; Castle Rising, Norfolk ! 

 Terrington, Norfolk (C. B. Plowright). Witchingham, 

 Norfolk (Mr. F. Norgate). Fotheringhay (Rev. M. J. 

 Berkeley). Cambridge (Mr. J. Ball). Audley End (Rev. 

 J. Leefe). Warwick (Mr. Spencer Perceval). Stainton, 

 Cumberland ; Ambrose, Cumberland (Dr. Carlyle). 



