Morchella.] FUNGI. 1 83 



2. 31. pcitula, Pers. (obtuse free-bordered 3Iorell) ; pileiis 

 obtuse its base free Iialf-way up, cells rhoniboidal. Pers. Syn. 

 p. 619. Trait. Fung. Aust. t. 6. n. 12. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. 

 p. 10.— ^HelveUa esculenta, Sow. t. 51, middle fig. 



On banks : very rare. Kent, 3Ir. Jacob llayer. — Obtusely and 

 broadly conic. " Stem 2 inches high. Cells even M'ithin." Fr. I. c. 



3. 31. semUibera, Dec. {long -stemmed 3Icrell) ; pileus conic 

 its base free half-way up, ribs longitudinal forming oblong veiny 

 cells. Dec. Fr. v. 2. p. 212.— Fr. Syst. 3Iyc. v. 2. p. 11 — 

 Helvella hijbrida, Soiv. t. 238. Purt. v. 2 Sf 3. n. 1018.— J/o?'- 

 chella hybrida, Pers. Syn. p. 620. Grev. So. Crypt. Fl. t. 89. 

 Fl. Ed. p. 4 1 8. — Phallus esculentus, vur. 2. With. v. 4. p, 315. 



Hedge-banks and woods ; spring and early summer, rare. Darling- 

 ton, 3Ir. Robsou. Badsey. — vVoic, 3Ir. Rujford. Sambonrne, Warw. 

 Purt. 3ISS. Foxhall near Edinburgh, Copt. Wauch. King's ClifTe, 



Apethorpe, Norths., Rev. 31. J. Berkeley Pdeus when young conic 



or subgloboso-conic, yellowish olive, the reticulations formed by ribs 

 running down with toleu'ible regularity from the apex, oblong with a 

 few wrinkles within; stem short, thickest at the base, slightly fnrfnraccous- 

 Pileus (in the full-grown plant) H inch high, nearly as much broad, 

 darker, free for rather more than half its height ; the reticulations still 

 oblong, but occasionally some are rhomboidal ; sporidia* large, oval, 

 yellowish. Stcui 5 inches or more high, 1 inch thick at the base, 

 hollow, pitted and wrinkled below, more or less grooved through its 

 whole length, flexuous, slightly tinged with reddish-brown, decidedly 

 furfuraceous, the powdery scurf consisting of branched threads, v.ith 

 irregular, globose or oblong obtuse articulations : inner walls fiufuraceous, 

 as also the under side of the {»ileus. Crisp ; its taste pleasant. 



* In the forogoiiig tribes I linvc used the word " xponilcs" to denote lliP 

 seed-like bodi»^s wliicii are generally rej,nu'ded as the iej)roduetive organs of 

 l'uii;;i. In this 1 followed the practice of Dr. Greville in the Flora Edhicusis^ 

 and the caidicr portion of the Scottish CrijjAogamic Flora. But as considerable 

 inconvenience arises in certain Fungi from the use of this term, the bodies in 

 question being compound bodies, \vliose parts it is desirable to di.>tijigui»h by 

 iiame, I shall in the remainder <»f tlie volume adopt the nomenclature used by 

 Fries and by Cneville in the latter parts of the Cryptogamic Flora, only by way 

 of caniion, stating here tliat wherever " sporules" are mentioned in the former 

 portion of the vidnme, tlie same thing is meant as I»y " s/mrii/ia'' in the present. 

 The t(!rm sporiJia then will denote generally tiie reproductive bodies analogous 

 to Kiu'ds in perfect jdants. These are often placed end to end, so as to form au 

 elongated separate body, as in many Sj>/iaria,Sp<)ridesmium, &c., or even side by 

 bide as well as longitudinally, as in JiJiicrosporiuin Clii'nanlhi, bnt these com- 

 j»otind sporiiliii, wheie there is not an evident di>jnnclion of tin- comiioneiiL 

 jtarts, will still lie termeil Sjioridia. When the gianular mass \^ith which the 

 vesicles are filled is collected into one or more distinct bodies, as in some /VrirtP, 

 the bodies will be railed s])ori>/ivla, the name of Sporules being reserved lor 

 the individual t;iains anahii;ons to embrjos of wbicJi the nnclens is composed. 

 In saying that these bodies are analogous to seeds and embryos, some latittubi 

 must he allowed, as the mode of reproduction in j)erfect plants an<l I'nngi is s(» 

 «IitVerent ; it having been ascertained that nuillilndes of sporidia conspire t<» 

 prodin-.e an individii;il Fungus. (Jreat care is retpiiHite to distingnish elooiinted 

 s])uriiUa, containing a row of sporidi'ila from septate, «ir, «-orrectly speaking, 

 concatenated .v/iL»//(u</. \\'ithont a good microscop*' and favonrable lit;ht, «lieii 

 they are very transparent, it is M-mctin'.es almost im]>ossiLde to arrive at a 

 SHtlafftctorv conclusion. 



