ELVELLACEI. 



659 



194:7. Helvella elastica. Bull. '•' Peziza-like Helvella." 



Pilens free, even, inflated, at leng*tli acutely lobed ; stem 

 elongated, thin, attenuated, pruinose. — Fl. Dan. 16l8,/. 2, 

 Corda. \. f. 70. Corda. Anl. t. 67, f. 4-6. CooJce exs. no. 233. KI. 

 exs. no. 137. Fr. S.M. ii. p. 21. Bull. t. 242. Bolt. t. 95. Soiv. t. 

 154. Schcpff. t. 220. Fng. Fl. t.jj. 184. Ann. ^^.H. no. 86. Fckl. 

 exs. wo. 2086. Kromh. t. 21,/. 21. Berk. exs. no. 2QQ. 



In woods. 

 Much resembling in some of its forms Peziza macropus. {Fij. 323.) 



" Minute Helvella." 



1948. 



Lev 



Helvella ephippium. 



Small ; pilens deflexed, lobed, decidedly velvety beneath. — 

 Lev. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. ii. vol. xvi./>. 240, 1. 14,/. 7. B. 4' Br. Ann. 

 N.H. no. 552. Schcsff. t. 321. Rav. exs. vi. no. 74. 



On the ground in wood. Spring and autumn. [S. Carolina.] 



Scarcely 1 in. high. Very near to H. elastica, and differs principally in its 

 dwarf size and decidedly velvety coat. — B. <t Br. 



Gen. 289. VERPA, Swartz. 



Receptacle clavato-plicate, hollow 

 below, and inflated, or conical and 

 adpressed, equally deflexed all 

 round ; hymenium rugulose, but not 

 costate, or nearly even. — Berk. Outl. 

 p. 359. (F/^. 324.) 



1949. Verpa digitalifoxmis. Pers. 



" Finger-shaped Verpa." 



Pileus campanulate, finger-shaped, 

 rugulose, umber ; stem equal, trans- 

 versely squamulose ; sporidia yellow- 

 Fig. 324. ish, elliptic— i^r. S.M. ii. p. 24. Pers. 

 M.E. t. l,f. 1-3. Berh. Outl. t.2\, f. 6. Corda. Sturm, t. 7, t. 6. 

 Eng. Fl. v.;;. 184. Pay.f. 380. Kl. exs. no. 1629. 



Under hedges. Rare. 



Pileus at first nearly even, olivaceons-nmber, dark at the apex; stem 

 obese, furnished at the base with a few subrufous radicles, white, with a 

 slight rufous tinge marked with transverse rufous spots, smooth to the naked 

 eye, but under a lens clothed wdth fine adpressed flocci, the rupture of which 

 gives rise to the spots which are, in fact, minute scales. In the mature plant 

 the pileus is | in. high, campanulate, digitaliform, or subglobose, more or 

 less closely pressed to the stem, but always free, the edge sometimes in- 

 flexed so as to form a white border, wrinkled, but not reticulated, under side 



