MORCHELLA 239 



On the ground in woods and open places. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Dlstribution: Massachusetts to Michigan and Colorado, 

 south to South Carolina; probably throughout North America; 

 also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Sow. Engl. Fungi pi. 51 (in part); Bolton, 

 Hist. Fung. pi. 91; Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 195, 196 and 202; Bull. 

 Herb. Fr. pi. 216; Cooke, Mycographia pi. 81 (in part) ; Grev. 

 Scot. Crypt. Fl. 2: pi. 68; Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. pi. 13; 

 Massee, Brit. Fungus-Fl. 4: 188, /. 1-3; Phill. Brit. Discom. 

 pi. 1, f. 1; Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. pi. 298, 299; Krombh. Abbild. 

 pi. 19, f. 6-7. 



ExsiccATi: N. Am. Fungi 979. 



3. Morchella conica Pers. Champ. Comest. 257. 1819. 



?PhaUus aciiminatus Batsch. Elench. Fung. 133. 1783. 

 ?Morchella continna Tratt. Fungi Austr. 67. 1830 (in part). 

 Morchella esculenta conica Fries, Syst. Myc. 2: 7. 1822. 

 Morilla conica Quel. Ench. Fung. 271. 1886. 

 Phalloholetus conicus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 865. 1891. 



Pileus elongated, subconic, acute at the apex or subobtuse, 

 reaching a length of 6-8 cm. and a diameter of 4 cm.; pits elon- 

 gated and more or less inclined to rectangular in form, yellowish 

 within, becoming brown or blackish when dry, reaching a length 

 of 5 mm. to 1 cm. and about half as broad; ribs more or less 

 longitudinally disposed, anastomosing or connected by cross ribs, 

 the edges about 1 mm. thick, rounded and lighter in color than 

 the interior of the pits; stem about two-thirds the diameter of 

 the base of the pileus, irregularly lacunose below, nearly even 

 above, whitish to yellowish, lighter than the pileus, delicately 

 pubescent, reaching a length of 4-7 cm.; asci cylindric or sub- 

 cylindric, reaching a length of 200-250 ix and a diameter of 

 18-20 /x; spores 1-seriate, ellipsoid, hyaline, yellowish in mass, 

 12-14 X 20-24 /x; paraphyses strongly enlarged above, where 

 they reach a diameter of 12-15 ix, faintly colored. 



On the ground in woods and open places in the margins of 

 woods. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Washington and Iowa; also in 

 Europe. 



Illustrations: Tratt. Fungi Austr. pi. 6, f. 11; Rab. Krypt.- 

 Fl. V: 1178,/. 1-4; Atkinson, Stud. Am. Fungi ed. 2, 218,/. 217; 



