Genus Helvetia 



Attachment 

 of stem 



Helvella laCUnOSa (SEE PLATE FACING PAGE 146) 



Cap Of one piece, thin and flexible like rubber cloth, folded to 

 saddle the apex of the stem. The two saddle-flaps are at- 

 tached on their 

 margins at irreg- 

 ular intervals 

 when young, and 

 are puffed out 

 like a balloon ; 

 but when ma- 

 ture, the pieces 

 separate. Their 

 outer surface is 

 brownish grey, 

 and their inner 

 surf a ce light 

 grey, creased and 

 folded. 



Stem Irregularly and 

 deeply furrowed. 



Flesh Odour offen- 

 sive. 



Habitat The speci- 

 men pictured was 

 found growing 



imbedded in deep moss on old bark in the Lake Placid 

 woods. 



LXc-ti-no'-si 



Stem 



H. lacunosa (diagrammatic) 



