8 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
J. E. Leefe). Apethorpe, Northamptonshire (Rev. M. J. 
Berkeley). Twycross (Rev. A. Bloxam). Orchardleigh, 
Somersetshire; Clifton Down, Bristol (Mr. C. Bucknall). 
Wetherby, Yorkshire (Dr. H. F. Parsons). North Wootton, 
Norfolk! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Eaton Constantine, 
Salop ! (Mr. W. E. Beckwith). 
Genus I] —Gyromitra. Fries. 
Receptacle pileate, stipitate, deflexed, bullato-inflated, 
clothed above by the hymenium ; the ribs of the hyme- 
nium raised, gyrose, persistent; substance fleshy; asci 
cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic or elongate-elliptic, smooth 
(in British species); paraphyses linear. (Plate I. fig. 2.) 
On the earth. Spring. 
In the two British species the pileus is somewhat 
globose, supported by a short stout stem enlarged at the 
base. They are esculent, and very rare. 
Name—yupdg, round, pirpa, a turban; from the shape 
of the pileus. 
Sporidia elliptic .. < oo oe . .. esculenta, 
Sporidia subfusiform .. ee oe oe e+ gigas. 
1. Gyromitra esculenta. Fries. 
Pileus inflated, irregularly undulated, gyroso-rugose, 
brown; margin annexed to the even villous stem; asci 
cylindrical ;. sporidia 8, oblongo-elliptic, biguttulate, 
20 X 10u; paraphyses thickened and brown above. 
(Plate I. fig. 2.) 
Gyromitra esculenta—Fries, “Summa Veg. Scan.,” 
p. 346 ; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 1842 ; “Mycogr.,” fig. 328 ; 
Quelet, “Champ.,” pt. i. p. 382. Helvella esculenta— 
Pers., “Comm.,” p. 64; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. 16 ; Karst., 
“Myco. Fenn.,” 38; B. and Br., “Ann, Nat. Hist.,” 825. 
Badham, “ Fung.,” ii. t. 12, f. 3-5; Harzer, t. 47 ; Barla, 
t. 48, £. 12,18; Lenz, fig. 59,60. Elvela mitra—Scheoff, 
“Icon,” t. 160, 161. Helvella phalloides—Afz., “ Act, 
Holm.,” 1783, p. 303. 
Exs.—Desm., “Crypt. Fr.,” ii. 264; Rabh., “ Fung. 
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