HELVELLA. 17 
“Schw.,” t. 21, f 18-20; Cooke, “Mycogr.,” f. 167; 
“ Grevillea,” vi. p. 127; Quelet, “Champ.,” pt. i. p. 384; 
Gill, “Champ.,” p. 11, ci. Helvella nigrescens—Pers., 
“Syn. Fung.,” p. 617; “Obs. Myco.,” i. 71. Elvela atra 
—“Flo. Dan.,” t. 584, f. 1. 
Exs.—Rabh., “Fung. Eur.,’ 236 ; Fekl., “ F. Rh.,” 1288. 
In moist woods. Summer and autumn. 
Solitary, small, similar to H. infula. Stem 1 to 2 
inches long, 1 to 2 lines thick, somewhat terete, even or 
irregularly lacunose, black, olivaceo-cinereous at the 
base. Pileus deflexed even from the first, not pezizoide 
(as in H. Pezizoides), compressed, margin forming two 
lobes, even, becoming slightly repand underneath, and 
when dry approaching an ashy grey (Fries, J. ¢.). 
Name—Ater, black ; from the black pileus. 
Aviemor, Loch Killein, and Loch Laggan, Scotland 
(Dr. B. White). 
10. Helvella pulla. Holms. 
Pileus deflexed, free, lobed, undulated, fuliginous, 
underneath and also the middle of the stem nearly 
naked; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, 
16—18 x 134; paraphyses thickened above. 
Helvella pulla—Holms,, t. 26; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” 
ii. 20; Cooke, “ Mycoer.,” fig. 338. H. cinerea—Vill. 
“Delph.,” p. 1045. Fungoides pullum—Mich., “ Gen.,” 
t. 86, f. 9. 
On moist ground in woods; sometimes on old rotting 
trunks of trees. Summer and autumn. LEsculent (?). 
Medium size. Stem 2 inches long or a little more, 
terete, somewhat undulated, stuffed, but at length as 
usual fistulose, fuliginous, base often irregularly lacunose. 
Pileus 1 to 14 inches broad, lobes deflexed, kidney- 
shaped, broadly emarginate, when young even, com- 
pressed ; at length inflated and more undulated than 
most of the Pezizoidee (Fries, U. ¢.). 
Name—Pullus, blackish ; from the blackish pileus. 
King’s Lynn! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
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