MORCHELLA. 7 
united by transverse ribs, the intervals forming irregular 
oblong pits; the height varies from 2 to 3 inches, the 
width about 2} inches; the stem is hollow, about 1 inch 
wide at the top, and 24 inches at the bottom, sulcate, 
coated with rust-coloured squamules. It is said to be 
_ esculent. 
Name—yiyac, a giant ; from the large size. 
Coed Coch, North Wales (Mrs. Lloyd Wynn). North 
Wootton! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
6. Morchella semilibera. D.C. 
Pileus conical, free half-way up; ribs longitudinal, 
forming oblong pits, which are veined within; stem 
nearly even; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, 22 x 14y; 
paraphyses scarcely thickened above. 
Morchella semilibera—pD. C., “ Flo. Fr.,” 11, 212; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 10; Vitt.; “Mang.,” t. xiv. figs, 1-4; 
Cooke, “Mycogr.,” fig. 321; Quelet, “Champ.,” pt. i. 
v. 3881. Morchella patula—Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 1940? 
M. rete—Pers., “Myco. Eur.,”” i, 205. M. hybrida— 
“Gen,” +t. 84, £2. Helvella hybrida—Sow., “ Fung.,” 
t. 238. Phallus patulus—Gled., “ Meth.” 59.  Mitro- 
phora semilibera—Lev., “Ann. Se. Nat.,” 1846, p. 250; 
Gill, “ Champ.,” p. 19, ¢. i. 
Exs.—Oooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” ii. No. 861; “ Erb. Crit. 
Ital.,” i. 270, ii. 289 ; Rabh., “Fung. Eur.,” 1417; Desm., 
“Orypt. Fr.,” i. 424; Fekl, “F. Rh,” 2088; Phil. “ Elv. 
Brit.,” 51. 
On the ground. Spring. Esculent. 
From 23 to 5 inches high ; pileus short (about 1 inch), 
rather acute, lutescent, when dry dirty fulvous; stem 
whitish. 
Name—Semi, half, liber, free; the pileus being free 
from the stem half-way up. 
King’s Cliffe, Northamptonshire (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 
Foxhall (Capt. Wauch). Near Darlington (Mr. Robson). 
Badsey (Mr. Rufford). Richmond, Yorkshire (Rev 
