Verpa 243 



On the ground in burnt places. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Washington and Oregon; also 

 in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 15: pi. 3, f. 2; Bond. 

 Ic. Myc. pi. 294; Jour. Bot. 31: pi. 334; Mycologia 11: pi. 1. 



3. VERPA Swartz, Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1815: 129. 



Pileus bell-shaped, with the stem attached to the center of 

 the under surface; hymenium covering the entire outside of 

 the pileus, varying in color from yellow to dark-brown, even or 

 more or less lacunose; stem rather stout, hollow or loosely stuffed, 

 lighter colored than the hymenium, usually even or very slightly 

 lacunose, naked or delicately pubescent; asci cylindric or clavate, 

 2-8-spored; spores ellipsoid, smooth, medium sized to very 

 large; paraphyses rather stout. 



Type species. Phallus conicus Miiller. 



Asci 8-spored; spores medium sized. 1. V. conica. 



Asci typically 2-spored; spores very large. 2. V. hohemica. 



1. Verpa conica (Miill.) Swartz, Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1815: 

 136. 1815. (Plate 38, fig. 2.) 



Phallus conicus Muller, Fl. Dan. pi. 654, f. 2. \ni . 



Leotia conica Pers. Syn. Fung. 613. 1801. 



Verpa digitaliformis Pers. Myc. Eu. 1: 202. 1822. 



Verpa Krombhohii Corda in Sturm, Deutsch. Fl. 2: 5. 1829. 



Verpa heheUoides Krombh. Abbild. 1: 76. 1831. 



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



Verpa chicoensis Copeland, Ann. Myc. 2: 508. 1904. 



Pileus bell-shaped or subconic, whitish beneath, the margin 

 often slightly reflexed, exposing a whitish border, entirely free 

 from the stem, reaching a depth of 2 cm. and a diameter of 

 1-2 cm.; hymenium becoming dark-brown, even or slightly 

 lacunose; stem cylindric or subcylindric, slightly narrowed above, 

 whitish or slightly floccose or scaly, the scales giving a transverse- 

 ly striate appearance, hollow or very loosely stuffed, reaching a 

 length of 5-6 cm.; asci cylindric or subcylindric, gradually 

 tapering below into a more or less contorted, stem-like base, 

 reaching a length of 300 ^t and a diameter of 20 fx, 8-spored; 

 spores 1-seriate or irregularly crowded, ellipsoid, slightly yellowish 

 at maturity, 12-16 X 22-26 m; paraphyses stout, sparingly sep- 

 tate, reaching a diameter of 10 /x. 



