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Helvetia crispa — Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 14; Berk., 

 " Outl," t. 21, fig. 4; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 1944; Grev., 

 t. 143; Yitt., " Mang.," t. 31, f. 1 ; Lenz, fig. 57; Badham, 

 t. v. f. 1 ; Barla, t. 43, f. 1-5 ; Price, " Illus.," £. 57 ; Cooke, 

 "Mycogr.," fig. 159; Quelet, "Champ.," pt. i. p. 383; 

 Gill., " Champ.," p. 8, c. i. ; Pat., p. 120, f. 270. H m tiro— 

 Purt, " Midi. Flo," iii. t. 16 ; Bull, t. 466, f. A. H. leuco- 

 phosa — Tratt, "Austr," f. 36. 



Exs.— Fold, "F. Rh," 1242; Berk, "Brit. Fung," 

 No. 264 ; " Erb. Crit. Ital," i. 464 ; Rabh, " Fung. Eur," 

 239; Cooke, "Fung. Brit," i. 555, ed. ii. No. 541. Phil, 

 " Elv. Brit," 102. 



On the ground. Autumn. Esculent. 



Solitary, large, 3 to 5 inches high ; at first sight 

 glabrous. Stem snow-white, becoming yellow in drying, 

 stout, ventricose downwards, sulcato-costate, and lacu- 

 nose ; ribs plane fistulose ; the dissected stem composed of 

 many distinct tubes. Pileus deflexed, inflated, lobed ; at 

 first the margin is adnate to the stem, afterwards free, 

 undulate, sinuato-contorted, and crisped. Esculent, savoury 

 (Fries, I. a). 



Name — Crispus, curled, wrinkled ; from the wrinkled 

 pileus. 



King's Cliffe (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Kew Gardens 

 (Sir Joseph Hooker). Beggar's Bush Lane and Haw 

 Wood, near Bristol (Mr. C. Bucknall). Hampstead, Din- 

 more, Herefordshire, Epping Forest, and Lyndhurst (Dr. 

 M. C. Cooke). Blackford Bridge, Woodside, and around 

 Carlisle (Dr. Carlyle). Castle Rising, Norfolk ! (Mr. C. B. 

 Plowright). About Shrewsbury and Hereford 1 



3. Helvetia lacunosa. Afz. 



Pileus inflated, lobed, cinereous-black ; lobes deflexed, 

 adnate ; stem fistulose, costate-lacunose ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, 18 X 10/x ; paraphyses filiform, slightly 

 enlarged above. (Plate I. fig. 3.) 



Helvetia lacunosa — Afz. in "Act. Holm," 1783, p. 

 304 ; Klotzsch, " Flo. Bor," t. 383 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. 

 p. 15; Holms, "Ot.," p. 45, t. 24; Cooke, "Handbk," 



