244 The North American Cup-Fungi 



On the ground. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Colorado; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 220; Cooke, Mycographia 

 pi. 101, f. 364; Fl. Dan. pi. 654, f. 2; Pers. Myc. Eu. 1: pi. 7, 

 f. 1-3; Sturm, Deutsch. Fl. 2: pi. 1; Ann. Myc. 2: pi. 12, f. 1-5; 

 Rab. Krypt.-Fl. !•': 1175,/. 2-3. 



2. Verpa bohemica (Krombh.) Schrot. Krypt. Fl. Schles. 3-: 

 25. 1893. (Plate 38, fig. 1.) 



Morchella bohemica Krombh. Abbild. 3: 3. 1834. 



Morchella gigaspora Cooke, Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 10: 442. 1870. 



Morchella hispora Sorokin, Mycol. Unters. 21. 1872. 



Morchella bohemica hispora Cooke, Mycographia 188. 1878. 



Morilla bohemica Quel. Ench. Fung. 271. 1886. 



Morilla gigaspora Quel. Ench. Fung. 271. 1886. 



Phalloboletus bohemicus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 865. 1891. 



Phalloboletus gigasporus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 865. 1891. 



Phalloboletus bisporus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 865. 1891. 



Morchella bispora truncata Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 46: 38. 1893. 



Pileus bell-shaped or subconic, white underneath, often with 

 the margin slightly reflexed, exposing a white border below, 

 2-3 cm. deep and reaching a diameter of 1-2 cm.; hymenium 

 folded into longitudinal and rather freely anastomosing ribs, 

 yellowish to brownish; stem almost cylindric, hollow or loosely 

 stuffed, externally white or slightly floccose, not wrinkled or 

 lacunose, reaching a length of 6-8 cm.; asci cylindric or sub- 

 cylindric, tapering below into a much contorted stem-like base, 

 the entire ascus reaching a length of 300-325 /x and a diameter of 

 20-22 /I, typically 2-spored; spores ellipsoid, straight or slightly 

 curved, smooth externally, and minutely granular within, 15-18 

 X 60-80 p., subhyaline or slightly yellowish; paraphyses clavate, 

 stout, reaching a diameter of 7-8 /x at their apices. 



On the ground. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Minnesota; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 218; Krombh. Abbild. 

 pi. 15, f. 1-13; Minn. Bot. Studies 3: pi. 49, f. 7-9; Trans. Bot. 

 Soc. Edinb. 10: 442,/. 2; Rab. Krypt.-Fl. P: 1176,/. 1-3; Cooke, 

 Mycographia pi. 87, f. 324-326; Bot. Zeit. 34: pi. 10; E. & P. 

 Nat. Pfl. 11 : 168,/. 141, E-F and 169, f. 142, G. 



