IIKLVELI.A. 15 



On sandy ground in mountain woods. Spring and 

 autumn. Esculent (?). 



Nearest to the preceding, hut well distinguished hy 

 the adduced forms and vernal growth. Stem 1 to 2 

 inches long, attenuated upwards, scarcely J an inch 

 thick; at first round, then subcompressed, marked 

 towards the base by a lacuna. Pileus at length crisped 

 and undulate; variable in colour — brown spadiceous, 

 violaceous, nigresceous, etc. (Fries, I. &). 



Name — Monachv.8, a monk ; diminutive. 



Old Roar Wood, St. Leonards (Mr. F. Currey, in 

 " Kew Herb."). 



7. Helvetia guepinioides. Berk, and Cooke. 



Pileus entire, deflexed, free, ochraceous; stem elon- 

 gated, equal, even, hollow, whitish ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, 20 X 11/u; paraphyses clavate at the 

 apices. 



Helvetia guepinioides. Berk, and Cooke in " Herb 

 Berk." ; " Mycogr.," fig. 337 ; Gill, " Champ," p. 12, c. i. 



On the ground. Edible (?). 



"A very singular species, resembling a Guepinia; 

 hence the name " (Cooke). 



Name — Guepinia, a genus of fungi, c«Soc, likeness ; 

 Guepinia-like. 



C. STEM SLENDER, EVEN. 



(a) Externally pruinose, furfuraceous, or glabrous. 



8. Helvetia elastica. Bull. 



Pileus free, even, inflated, at length acutely lobed; 

 stem elongated, slender, attenuated upwards, pruinose ; 

 asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, 20 X 10 — 11/x; para- 

 physes filiform, slightly enlarged above. 



Helvetia elastica— -Bull., "Champ," p. 289, t. 242; 

 Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. 21 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 1947 ; 

 " Mycogr," fig. 163 ; Kromb, t. 21, f. 21 ; Karst, "Myco. 

 Fenn," p. 35; Fckl, " Symb. Myco," p. 333; Quelet, 



