Some Western Helbelliner 
ID, SL JEL eysfie 
The Helvellineew listed here were collected 
in the western United States and Canada dur- 
ing various expeditions to the Minnesota Sea- 
side Station. The specimens were preserved 
in 2 per cent formaline and 7o per cent alcho- 
hol, or were dried. All the species described 
are in the collection of the museum and her- 
barium of the University of Minnesota. 
The following works have been consulted: 
Schreeter’s generic classification as outlined in 
Engler and Prantl, Die Naturlichen Pflanzen- 
familien. 1: 1894; Dr. H. Rehm’s work in 
Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamenflora. Pilze. 1°: 1896; 
Cook’s Mycographia, 1879; Massee’s Mono- 
graph of the Geoglossacee, Ann. Bot., 11:225- 
307. 1897; also his British Fungus-Flora 4: 
1895; Phillip’s Gyromitra gigas (Krombholz) 
Cooke. Journ. (Bot. (1120-132) 1304, -and 
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