Helvellacese 



narrowly elliptical, straight or very (Plate CXLVII.) 



slightly curved, 22 25x5 6/x; paraphy- 

 ses slender, cylindrical, hyaline. 



On the ground in woods. Massee. 



North Carolina, Curtis; Massachu- 

 setts, Frost; Minnesota, Jo Jin son; New 

 York, Ellis. 



New York, Peck, 23d Rep. ; Trenton, 

 N. J. Cespitose on damp ground in 

 woods. Forty specimens, July, 1898. 

 E. B. Sterling; New Jersey; Pennsyl- 

 vania. Gregarious and cespitose in 

 several localities. July to frost. Mc- 

 Ilvaine. 



Irregular in appearance. Helvella- 

 like but with a very soft gelatinous 



stem, yellow. The color of the stem distinguishes it from L. chloro- 

 cephala, which has a green stem. It is a small plant, but of good food 

 value. Where it occurs there is often a goodly quantity. 



Leotia. 



LEOTIA LUBRICA. 

 Natural size. 



MOKCHEL'LA Dill. 

 Gr. a mushroom. 



Stipitate or subsessile. Pileus globose or ovate, adnate throughout Morcheiia. 

 its length to the sides of the stem, remaining closed at the apex, hollow 

 and continuous with the cavity of the stem ; externally furnished with 

 stout, branche'd and anastomosing ribs or plates, every part bearing the 

 hymenium. Stem stout, stuffed or hollow; asci cylindrical, 2-4-8- 

 spored. Spores i-seriate, continuous, hyaline, elliptical; paraphyses 

 septate, clavate. 



Most nearly allied to Gyromitra ; differs in the ribs of the pileus be- 

 ing deep and plate-like, and anastomosing to form elongated or irregu- 

 larly polygonal deep pits. 



Growing on the ground in the spring. Massee. 



Stem stout; pileus ovoid or conical, deeply folded into pits, resem- 

 bling honeycomb. 



Notwithstanding Dill, the author of the genus, describes the caps as 

 adnate throughout their length to the stem, such is not the case. Pro- 



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