Elvela 247 



Fung. Bavar. pL 154; Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 228; Cooke, My- 

 cographia pi. 41, f. 160; Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. pi. 2, /. 1 

 and pi. 3; Bull. Herl). Fr. pi. 466, f. B; Minn. Bot. Studies 3: 

 pi. 48, f. 11-13. 



ExsiCCATi: Clements, Crypt. Form. Colo. 130, 302; N. Am. 

 Fungi 3039; Fungi Columb. 1931. 



2. Elvela crispa (Scop.) Fries, Syst. Myc. 2: 14. 1822. (Plate 



39, FIG. 2.) 



?EIveIa pallida Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: 112. 1770. 

 Phallus crispus Scop. Fl. Carn. 2: 475. 1772. 

 Elvela nivea Schrad. Jour. Bot. Schrad. 2-: 66. 1799. 

 Elvela leucophaea Pers. Obs. Myc. 2: 19. 1799. 

 Elvela fusca Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 9. 1879. 



Pileus mitrate or more often saddle-shaped, reflexed and 

 usually irregularly lobed, reaching a diameter of 4-5 cm.; hy- 

 menium white, becoming cream or yellowish with age and 

 especially when dried, even or more or less convoluted; stem 

 reaching a length of 6-7 cm. and a diameter of 2-3 cm., deeply 

 fluted, entirely white when fresh, becoming cream or yellowish 

 with age, still darker when dry; asci cyUndric or subcylindric, 

 reaching a length of 300 /x and a diameter of 15-18 ju; spores 1- 

 seriate, ellipsoid, containing one large oil-drop, about 12 X 20 //; 

 paraphyses enlarged above, where they reach a diameter of 8 fx. 



On soil usually in wooded places. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Alberta and California; also in 

 Europe. 



Illustrations: Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 225; Cooke, Mycographia 

 pi. 41, f. 159; Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. pi. 2, f. 2; Krombh. 

 AhhM. pi. 19, f. 27-29; Massee, Brit. Fungus-Fl. 4: 188, /. 

 17-18; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 1^: 168, /. 141, G-II; Bull. Lab. Nat. 

 Hist. State Univ. Iowa 6: pi. 5, f. 1; Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 466, 

 f. A; Minn. Bot. Studies 3: pi. 49, f. 10; Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 

 pi. 282. 



ExsiccATi: Fungi Columb. 3329. 



3. Elvela palustris Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 33: 31. 



1880. 

 ?Elvela pallescens Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: Ind. 114. 1774. 



Pileus widely expanded, the margin reflexed, at first slightly 

 adnate with the stem but at maturity entirely free, reaching a 



