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branaceous, variously colored. Stipe hollow or stuffed, stout or 

 slender, even, lactulose or ribbed, attached to the pileus at its 

 center. Paraphyses linear, often clavate, hyaline or colored. Asci 

 long - , cylindrical. Spores 8, smooth, elliptic or oblong elliptic, 

 hyaline. 



Growing in the ground or decaying wood. Most of the 

 species are said to be edible. 



Helvella elastica Bull. Champ. 289. pi. 242. 1791-98. 



Solitary, about 10 cm. high. Stipe slender, whitish, attenu- 

 ated upward, even or somewhat ribbed near the base, pruinose or 

 smooth, at first stuffed, later hollow. Pileus saddle-shaped, 

 grayish above, white or whitish beneath, 2-3 cm. broad. Para- 

 physes septate, ends clavate. Asci cylindrical. Spores con- 

 taining one large oil globule, broadly elliptic, 18-20 mic. long and 

 10-12 mic. wide. 



Found growing on the ground under trees. 



Coll. Freda M. Bachman, May 25, 1908. 



Genus III. Gyromitra Fr. Sum. Veg. Scand. 346. 1849. 

 Type species, Gyromitra esculenta (Pers.) Fr. 



Mycelium within the substratum. Ascophore composed of 

 pileus and stipe. Pileus fleshy, varying in shape, attached to 

 the stipe, more or less inflated, upper surface ribbed, ribs var- 

 iously branched, hymenium on the outer surface. Paraphyses 

 linear. Asci cylindrical. Spores 8, elliptical, smooth. 



Growing on the ground or decayed wood. 



Gyromitra brunnca Underwood Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. for 1893. 



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Solitary or in groups, 6-9 cm. high. Stipe stuffed, later 

 hollow, pubescent near the base, smooth above, white or creamy 

 in color, usually larger at the base, 1.5-2 cm. thick. Pileus 

 quite irregular, attached at various points to the stipe, surface 

 convoluted, reddish brown in color, under side almost white and 

 finely pubescent. Hymenium and hypothecium brownish. Para- 

 physes stout, septate, clavate, sometimes branched, dark brown 



