ELVELLACEl. 



657 



Pileus when youn^ conic or snb-globose-com'c, yellowisli-olive, the reticu- 

 lations formed by ribs running down with tolerable regularity Irom the apex, 

 oblong, with a fe^ wrinkles within ; stem short, thickest at the base, slightly 

 furfuraceous; pileus when mature I5 in. high, nearly as broad, darker, free 

 for rather more than half its height, reticulations still oblong, but occa 

 sionally some are rhomboidal ; sporidia large, oval, yellowish ; stem 5 in. or 

 more high, 1 in. thick at the base, hollow, pitted and wrinkled below, more 

 or less grooved through its whole length, flexuous. slightly tinged with red- 

 dish brown, decidedly furfuraceous, crisp ; taste pleasant. — Eiig. Fl. 



Gen. 287. 



GYROMITRA, Fr. 



Receptacle inflated, bullate, 

 rough, with raised gyrose ribs. — 

 Berk. Outl.p. 358. (Fig. 322.) 



1842. Gyxoxnitxa esculenta. 



Fr. "Edible Gyromitra." 



Pileus inflated, irregular, un- 

 dulated, gyroso-rugose, brown , 

 margin adnexed to the even, vil- 

 lous stem ; sporidia imiseriate, 

 oblong-ovate, with two nuclei. — 

 ■p- 3.7.-) B. (5' Br. Ann. N. H. no. 825. 



Hdvelli esculenta, Fr. S.M. ii-i^. 16. Schcejr. 1. 160 ? Fckl. exs. 

 no. 2067. Tratt. Essh. t. C.C. A7. exs. no. 138. Badh. ii. t. 12, f. 

 3-5. 



In pine woods. April. Rare. Weybridge. 



{Fig. 322.) 



HELVELLA, Linn. 



Receptacle pileate, hanging down 

 over the stem ; concave and barren 

 below ; hymenium even. — Fr. S.M. 

 ii.;?. 13. "Berk.Outl.p.SoS. 



(Fig. 323.) 



1943. Helvella gigas. Kroml). 

 " Large Helvella." 



Fig. 323. 



Pileus large, lobed, undulate, 

 plicate or crisp, pallid, whitish or 

 ochraceous ; lobes sub-adnate, ad- 

 pressed to the stem ; stem thick, 

 ceUular, waxy, whitish, lacunose, 



