18 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



11. Helvetia Klotzschiana. Corda. 



Pileus nearly two-lobed, deflexed, membranaceous, 

 even, opaque, brown, margin repand, even beneath, and 

 yellowish ; stem slender, subcylindrical, pale yellow, 

 clear white within ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 uniguttulate, 12 — 14 X Q/u; paraphyses clavate, with 

 brown apices. 



Helvetia Klotzschiana — Corda in Sturm., "Flo.," iii. 

 t. 57; Cooke, "Mycogr.," fig. 168; " GrevilJea," x. p. 51. 

 Helvetia, elastica — Rabh., " Fung. Eur.," No. 130. 



Exs.— "Erb. Crit. Ital.," i. 137; Rabh., "Fung. Eur.," 

 130. 



Easily known by the yellow stem and under side of 

 the pileus. 



Name — After J. H. Klotzsch. 



In the Fernery, Coed Coch, North Wales (Mrs Lloyd 

 Wynn). 



(b) Externally villose. 



12. Helvetia ephipiDium. Lev. 



Pileus deflexed, two to three lobed, free, cinereous 

 villose beneath ; stem cylindrical, even, villose, stuffed ; 

 Hsci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 18 X 10^; paraphyses 

 thickened and filled with brown granules in the upper 

 part. 



Helvetia cphippiwrn — Lev., "Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1841, 

 p. 240, t. 16, f. 7; B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist," 

 No. 552; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 1948; " Mycogr.," 

 fig. 169; Gill., "Champ.," p. 13, c. i. ; Pat., p. 168, f. 370. 



Exs.— Winter, "Fungi Eur," 1907. 



Gregarious ; smaller than most of the species, rarely 

 exceeding 1 inch high ; somewhat resembling H. elastica 

 in a young state, but more velvety on the stem and 

 under side of the pileus. 



On the ground in woods. Summer and autumn. 

 Esculent (?). " 



