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meous ; stem enlarged upwards, stuffed, then hollow, 

 smooth, often here and there irregularly lacunose, pallid, 

 slightly villous ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 23 — 25 X 12/i ; paraphyses clavate at the apices, brown. 



Helvetia infula — Schseff, t. 159; Pers., " Syn. Fung.," 

 f. 617; A. and S., p. 300; Karst, "Myco. Fenn.," p. 34; 

 Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 17 (part) ; Barla, t. 43, f. 14-16 ; 

 Lenz, f. 61 ; Quelet, " Champ.," pt. i. p. 383 ; " Scott. Nat.," 

 vi. 122. 



Exs.— Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 445; "Erb. Crit. Ital.," 

 i. 330; Roumg, "Fung. Gal," 1208. Phil, "Elv. Brit," 151. 



On the ground in woods. Autumn. 



The Brandon specimens were very variable in form 

 and size : pileus sometimes nearly globose, bullate, and 

 w r rinkled, at others expanded, and unequally lobed at 

 the margin ; the stem attenuated upwards or in the 

 centre ; varying in height from 3 to 7 inches ; the para- 

 physes branched, septate, pyriform at the apices ; sporidia 

 furnished with two large guttulse, 18 — 22 X 8jk. Probably 

 esculent. 



Name — Infula, fillet ; from the shape of the pileus. 



Rothimurchus, Scotland, and Brandon, Norfolk ! 

 (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



6. Helvetia monachella. Fries. 



Pileus deflexed, lobate, adnate, even, subspadiceous ; 

 stem hollow, even, glabrous, white ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, 18 X 10/x; paraphyses clavate, and 

 brown apices. 



Helvetia monachella — Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 18 ; 

 Kromb, t. xix. f. 22-26; Lenz, fig. 62; Cooke, " Mycogr," 

 fig. 335 ; Quelet, " Champ," pt. i. p. 383 ; Gill, " Champ," 

 p. 10, c. i. M. monacella — " Port. Hist," x. c. 70. 

 Fungoides — Mich, " Gen," t. 86, f. 8. Boletus albus — 

 Batt, t. 2, f. h. Phallus monachella — Scop, p. 476. 

 j3. Helvetia spadicea — Schasff, t. 283 ; Pers, " Comm," 

 p. 113. H. grandis—Cum., "Act, Tur," t. 2. 



Exs.— Thum, " Fung. Aus," No. 11. 



