400 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Pileus hooded, in 24 irregular, drooping lobes, at length 

 undulate, strongly adherent to the sides of the stem, reddish- 

 brown or cinnamon more or less deep in colour, whitish and 

 downy underneath, 48 cm. broad; stem, 36 cm. long, 1 cm. 

 and more thick, usually smooth and even, sometimes com- 

 pressed and irregularly lacunose, pallid or tinged with red, 

 covered with a white meal or down, solid when young but 

 becoming hollow with age ; asci cylindrical, apex somewhat 

 truncate, 8-spored ; spores 1-seriate, hyaline, smooth, con- 

 tinuous, elliptical, ends obtuse, 21-23 x 11-12 /x, ; paraphyses 

 septate, clavate and brown at the tips. 



On the ground in woods. 



Differs from H. guepinioides in the pileus being adnate to 

 the stem, and from H. monachella in the stem not being 

 glabrous. 



Specimen in Eoum., Fung. Gall., 1208, examined. 



The Brandon specimens were very variable in form and 

 size; pileus sometimes nearly globose,' bullate, and wrinkled, 

 at others expanded, and unequally lobed at the margin ; the 

 stem attenuated upwards or in the centre ; varying in height 

 from 3 to 7 inches ; the paraphyses branched, septate, pyri- 

 form at the apices ; sporidia furnished with two large gut- 

 tulae, 18-22x 8 p. Probably esculent. (Phillips, Brit. Disc., 

 p. 14.) Is this the right species? 



Helvella monachella. Fries, Syst. Myc., ii. p. 18; 

 Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 14; Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 335; Sacc., 

 Syll.,viii. n. 62. 



Pileus drooping, irregularly lobed and folded, depressed at 

 the centre, adnate to the sides of the stem, pale brown or 

 sometimes almost bay, paler below, 3-4 cm. broad ; stem, 

 2 4-cm. lon<?, about 1 cm. thick, narrowed more or less 

 upwards, hollow, becoming compressed and sometimes lacu- 

 nose on one side at the base, white, minutely pubescent at 

 first, then quite glabrous ; asci cylindrical, apex somewhat 

 truncate, 8-spored ; spores obliquely 1 seriate, hyaline, 

 smooth, continuous, broadly elliptical, ends obtuse, 1617 X 

 10 //,; paraphyses septate, brown at the clavate tips. 



On the ground in woods. 



Distinguished by the hollow, white, glabrous, almost even 

 stem, and adnate pileus. 



