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Mycologia 



from Elvela infula. The extreme variability of the species would 

 readily account for all the different interpretations which have 

 been assigned to the two supposed species by different mycolo- 

 gists. I therefore venture to combine the species and append a 

 complete synonymy and description. 



Elvela infula Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: Ind. 105. 1774. 



? Phallus Monacella Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2, 2: 476. 1772. 

 Elvela Mitra Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: Ind. 105. 1774. Not E. 

 Mitra L. 



Elvela brunnea L. Syst. Nat. 1450. 1796. 

 Helvella esculenta Pers. Comm. Fung. Bavar. 64. 1800. 

 Elvela infula Pers. Syn. Fung. 617. 1801. 

 Gyromitra esculenta Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 346. 1849. 

 Elvela rhodopus Krombh. Abbild. 3 : 23, 1834. 

 Gyromitra infula Quel. Ench. Fung. 272. 1886. 

 Gyromitra esculenta crisp a Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 51 : 

 299. 1898. 



Physomitra infula Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 35. 1907. 

 Physomitra esculenta Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 35. 1907. 



Pileus reaching a diameter of 6-8 cm., reflexed and more or 

 less adnate to the stem, very irregular, mitrate, saddle-shaped or 

 occasionally subglobose, even or variously contorted or convo- 

 luted, the color varying from reddish-brown to dark-brown and 

 occasionally almost black ; stem reaching a length of 6-8 cm. and 

 a diameter of 5-1 5 mm. ; even or more or less lacunose, never 

 strongly fluted, the color varying from whitish to yellowish or 

 occasionally with a pinkish tint; asci cylindric or subcylindric, 

 reaching a length of 200 a and a diameter of 12-14/*, 8-spored; 

 spores i-seriate or partially 2-seriate, rather narrow-ellipsoid, 

 containing two oil-drops, about 8-12X18-24^; paraphyses 

 strongly enlarged at their apices, reaching a diameter of 10/*,. 



On the ground or occasionally on rotton wood. 

 Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution : Maine to British Columbia and California. 



Illustrations: Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: pi. 159, 161; Rab. 

 Krypt.-Fl. I 3 : 1174; /. r-3; Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 223, 224.; Pers. 

 Champ. Comest. pi. 4; Cooke, Hand. Brit. Fungi 2 : 657, /. 322; 



