HELVELLA. 15 
On sandy ground in mountain woods. Spring and 
autumn. Esculent (?). 
Nearest to the preceding, but well distinguished by 
the adduced forms and vernal growth. Stem 1 to 2 
inches long, attenuated upwards, scarcely 4 an inch 
thick; at first round, then subcompressed, marked 
towards the base by a lacuna. Pileus at length crisped 
and undulate; variable in colour—brown spadiceous, 
violaceous, nigresceous, etc. (Fries, l. ¢.). 
Name—Monachus, a monk ; diminutive. 
Old Roar Wood, St. Leonard’s (Mr. F. Currey, in 
“Kew Herb.”). 
7. Helvella guepinioides. Berk. and Cooke. 
Pileus entire, deflexed, free, ochraceous; stem elon- 
gated, equal, even, hollow, whitish; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, elliptic, 20 x 11u; paraphyses clavate at the 
apices. 
Helvella guepinioides. Berk. and Cooke in “Herb 
Berk.” ; “ Mycogr.,” fig. 337 ; Gill, “ Champ.,” p. 12, ¢ i. 
On the ground. Edible (?). 
“A very singular species, resembling a Guepinia ; 
hence the name” (Cooke). : 
Name—Guepinia, a genus of fungi, c8oe, likeness ; 
Guepinia-like. 
C. STEM SLENDER, EVEN. 
(a) Externally pruinose, furfuraceous, or glabrous. 
8. Helvella elastica. Bull. 
Pileus free, even, inflated, at length acutely lobed; 
stem elongated, slender, attenuated upwards, pruinose ; 
asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 20 x I0—11y; para- 
physes filiform, slightly enlarged above. 
Helvella elastica—Bull., “Champ.,” p. 289, t. 242; 
Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. 21; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 1947; 
“ Mycogr.,” fig. 163; Kromb., t. 21, f. 21; Karst. “ Myco. 
Fenn.,” p. 35; Fekl, “Symb. Myco.,” p. 333; Quelet, 
