HELVELLA. 11 
Helvella crispa—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 14; Berk., 
“Outl.,” t. 21, fig. 4; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No, 1944; Grev., 
t. 143; Vitt., “Mang,” t. 31, f.1; Lenz, fig. 57; Badham, 
t. v. £1; Barla, t. 43, f. 1-5; Price, “TIllus.,” f. 57; Cooke, 
“Mycogr.,” fig. 159; Quelet, “Champ.,” pt. i. p. 388; 
Gill., “Champ.,” p. 8,e.i.; Pat., p.120,£270. H. mitra— 
Purt., “ Midl. Flo.,” iii. t. 16; Bull, t.466,f 4. H. leuco- 
phea—tTratt., “ Austr.,” f. 36. 
Exs.—Fckl., “F. Rh.,” 1242; Berk. “Brit. Fung.,” 
No. 264; “Erb. Crit. Ital.” i. 464; Rabh., “Fung. Eur.,” 
239; Cooke, “Fung. Brit.,” i. 555, ed. ii. No. 541. Phil, 
“ Ely. Brit.” 102. 
On the ground. Autumn. Esculent. 
Solitary, large, 38 to 5 inches high; at first sight 
glabrous. Stem snow-white, becoming yellow in drying, 
stout, ventricose downwards, sulcato-costate, and lacu- 
nose ; ribs plane fistulose ; the dissected stem composed of 
many distinct tubes. Pileus deflexed, inflated, lobed; at 
first the margin is adnate to the stem, afterwards free, 
undulate,sinuato-contorted,and crisped. Esculent,savoury 
(Fries, l. ¢.). 
Name—Crispus, curled, wrinkled; from the wrinkled 
ileus. 
: King’s Cliffe (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Kew Gardens 
(Sir Joseph Hooker). Beggar’s Bush Lane and Haw 
Wood, near Bristol (Mr. C. Bucknall). Hampstead, Din- 
more, Herefordshire, Epping Forest, and Lyndhurst (Dr. 
M. C. Cooke). Blackford Bridge, Woodside, and around 
Carlisle (Dr. Carlyle). Castle Rising, Norfolk! (Mr. C. B. 
Plowright). About Shrewsbury and Hereford ! 
38. Helvella lacunosa. Afz. 
Pileus inflated, lobed, cinereous-black ; lobes deflexed, 
adnate; stem fistulose, costate-lacunose ; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, elliptic, 18 X 10u; paraphyses filiform, slightly 
enlarged above. (Plate I. fig. 3.) 
. Helvella lacunosa—Afz. in “Act. Holm.,” 1783, p. 
304; Klotzsch, “Flo. Bor.” t. 883; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” 11. 
p- 15; Holms., “Ot.” p. 45, t. 24; Cooke, “Handbk.,” 
