184 FUNGI. [Verpa, 



23. Helvella. Liwi. ITelvella. 



Heceptacle pileate, deflexed, lobed. Hymenium even. — Named 

 from Helvella, the Latin name of some fungus. 



1. H, crispa, Scop, (pallid Helvella) ; pileus deflexed lobed 

 free crisped pallid, stem fistulose costato-Iacunose. I^r. Sysf. 



Mijc. V. 2. p. 14. — Phallus crispus, Scop, n, 1606 El. albida, 



Schaff. t. 2S2.—H. ?nifra, Sow. t. 39. With. v. 4. p. 297. m 



part. Part. n. 1015. ^ 16. (exc. middle jig ^ Poqucs, t. l.f.S. 

 — //. leucop/icea, Pers. Syn. p. 616. Tratt. Essb. Schiv. t. DD, 

 Idling. Aust. t. 18. w. 36. Grev. El. Ed. p. 417. Scot. Crypt. 

 Fl. t. 143. 



Woods, &c. ; autumn. Not uncommon. — Pileus whitish, flesh- 

 coloured or yellowish. Stem 3 — 5 inches high, snowy-white, deeply 

 lacunose and ribbed, the ribs hollow. Esculent. 



2. H. lacunosa, Afz. (ciiiereous Helvella) ; pileus inflated 

 lobed cinereous, lobes deflexed adnate, stem fistulose costato- 

 Iacunose. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. p. 15. — EL Mitra, Schwf. t. 154. 

 — Hel. Mitra, Pers. Syn. p. 615. With. v. 4. p. 297. in part. 

 Purt. t. 16. central fiy. Grev. Scot. Crypt. FL t. 36. FL Ed. 

 p. 417. 



Woods, on the ground and in hollow stumps. Less common than 

 the last. — Stem white or dusky. 



3. H. eldstica, Bull. (Peziza-like Helvella) ; pileus free even 

 inflated at length acutely lobed, stem nearly even slender 

 elongated attenuated pruinose. Bull. t. 242. Fr. Syst. Myc, 

 V. 2. p. 21. — H. mitra, Bolt. t. 95. — H. albida, Pers. Syn. p. 616. 

 — H. fuliginosa, Bichs. 2. ^:>. 25. Sow.! t. 154. With. v. 4. 

 p. 299. Pelh. n. 1297. Part. n. 1495. 



Woods and shady places ; rare. Near Halifax, Bolton, Scotland, 

 Bickson. Birdbrooke, Essex, T. Walfurd, Esq. Madingley. lielhan. 



Ragley woods near Pophills, Alcester. Burton Much resembling in 



some of its forms Peziza macropus. 



24. ViiiPA. Swartz, Verpa. 



Becpptacle conlco-deflexed, equal. Hymenium even or wrinkled. 

 — Name from Verpa, a Latin word synonymous with (paKKog. 



\. V. digitaliformis, Pers. (fox-glove Verpa); pileus cam- 

 panulate drgitaliform slightly ^wrinkled umber, stem equal 

 transversely squamulose. Pers. 3I(/c. Eur. v.\. p. 202. t. 7. 

 /. 1—3. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. p. 24. EL 2. p. 2. Corda in 

 Sturnis Beutsch. FL v. 2. t, 7.— V. Krombholtzii, L c. t. 6. 



Hedge-rows, with Morchella semilibera, King's Clifte, Norths., May 3, 

 1833, abundantly. Rev. M. J. Berkeley. — Pileus at first nearly even, 

 olivaceous-umber, dark at the apex. Sletn obese, furnished at the base 

 with a few subrufous radicles, white with a slight rufous tinge, marked 

 with transverse rufous spots ; smooth to the naked eye, but under a 



