14 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
meous; stem enlarged upwards, stuffed, then hollow, 
smooth, often here and there irregularly lacunose, pallid, 
slightly villous; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, 
23—25 X 12u; paraphyses clavate at the apices, brown. 
Helvella infula—Scheeff., t. 159; Pers., “Syn. Fung.,” 
f. 617; A. and S., p. 300; Karst, “Myco. Fenn.,” p. 34; 
Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 17 (part); Barla, t. 43, f£. 14-16 ; 
Lenz, f. 61; Quelet, “Champ.,” pt. i. p. 383; “Scott. Nat.,” 
vi. 122. 
Exs.—Karst., “Fung. Fenn.,” 445; “Erb. Crit. Ital.,” 
i, 330; Roumg., “Fung. Gal.” 1208. Phil. “Elv. Brit.,” 151. 
On the ground in woods. Autumn. 
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 para- 
physes branched, septate, pyriform at the apices ; sporidia 
furnished with two large guttule, 18—22 X 8u. Probably 
esculent. 
Name—In/fula, fillet; from the shape of the pileus. 
Rothimurchus, Scotland, and Brandon, Norfolk! 
(Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
6. Helvella monachella. Fries. 
Pileus deflexed, lobate, adnate, even, subspadiceous ; 
stem hollow, even, glabrous, white; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, elliptic, 18 X 104; paraphyses clavate, and 
brown apices. 
Helvella monachella—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 18; 
Kromb,., t. xix. f 22-26; Lenz, fig. 62; Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” 
fig. 3385 ; Quelet, “Champ.,” pt. 1. p. 383; Gill, “Champ.,” 
p. 10, « i. M. monacella— Port. Hist.” x. « 70. 
Fungoides—Mich., “Gen.,” t. 86, f. 8. Boletus albus— 
Batt., t. 2, £ H. Phallus monachella—Scop., p. 476. 
B. Helvella spadicea—Scheeff,, t. 288; Pers, “Comm..” 
p. 113. H. grandis—Cum., “ Act. Tur.,” t. 2. 
Exs.—Thum., “ Fung. Aus.,” No. 11. 
