18 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
11. Helvella Kloteschiana. Corda. 
Pileus nearly two-lobed, deflexed, membranaceous, 
even, opaque, brown, margin repand, even beneath, and 
yellowish ; stem slender, subcylindrical, pale yellow, 
clear white within ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 
uniguttulate, 12—14 xX 6u; paraphyses clavate, with 
brown apices. ”_ 
Helvella, Klotzschiana—Corda in Sturm., “Flo.,” iii. 
t. 57; Cooke, “Mycogr.,” fig. 168; “Grevillea,” x. p. 51. 
Helvella elastica—Rabh., “ Fung. Eur.,” No. 180. 
Exs.—* Erb. Crit. Ital.” i. 187; Rabh., “Fung. Eur.,” 
130. 
Easily known by the yellow stem and under side of 
the pileus. 
Name—After J. H. Klotzsch. 
In the Fernery, Coed Coch, North Wales (Mrs Lloyd 
Wynn). . 
(b) Externally villose. 
12. Helvella ephippiwm. Lev. 
Pileus deflexed, two to three lobed, free, cinereous 
villose beneath ; stem cylindrical, even, villose, stuffed; 
asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 18 x 104; paraphyses 
thickened and filled with brown granules in the upper 
part. 
Helvella ephippiwm—Lev., “Ann. Sc. Nat.,” 1841, 
p. 240, t. 16, f. 7; B. and Br, “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
No, 552; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 1948; « Mycogr.,” 
fig. 169; Gill, “Champ.,” p. 18, ¢ i; Pat., p. 168, f. 370. 
Exs.— Winter, “Fungi Eur.,” 1907. 
Gregarious; smaller than most of the species, rarely 
exceeding 1 inch high ; somewhat resembling H. elastica 
im a young state, but more velvety on the stem and 
under side of the pileus. 
On the ground in woods. Summer and autumn, 
Esculent (?), 
