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lists is Hitchcock's Catalogue of Plants Growing without Cul- 

 tivation in the Vicinity of Amherst College published in 1829. 

 In this list one finds (p. 61) three species of Helvetia: H. albida 

 Bull., H. esculenta Pers., and H. mitraf L. 2 The second one of 

 these species is now Gyromitra esculenta Fr. and need not be 

 considered here. The other two are somewhat difficult to place 

 exactly. There is a H. albida Pers. (=H. elastica Fr.) and a 

 H. albida Schaeff. (=H. crispa Fr.), but there seems to be no 

 H. albida Bull. His third species is still more indefinite in view 

 of the fact that Linnaeus included all the species of Helvella 

 under the name H. Mitra. Hitchcock's list then adds little or 

 nothing to our knowledge of what species of Helvella occurred 

 in the state at that time. Charles L. Andrews presented a paper 

 before the Boston Society of Natural History in 1856 on the 

 fleshy fungi of Massachusetts. He included descriptions of 36 

 species but no Helvellae were mentioned. During the same year 

 C. J. Sprague read a paper before the society, " Contributions 

 to New England Mycology," and a second paper under the 

 same title two years later. In his first paper he included 350 

 species of fungi, most, but not all, of which were collected about 

 Boston. He mentions in this paper Helvella {Peziza) macropus 

 Pers. and Helvella lacunosa Afz., the latter however having been 

 collected in Maine. In his second paper he increased the number 

 of reported fungi to 678. Helvella crispa Scop, and H. Mona- 

 chella Fr. are in the second paper and one judges from the con- 

 text that they were collected within the state. In i860 Sprague 

 gave up his study of fungi and turned over his unworked ma- 

 terial to C. C. Frost who, in 1869, presented a list, " Further 

 Enumeration of New England Fungi," of 262 species not men- 

 tioned in Sprague's lists. The only Helvella mentioned is H. 

 ephippium Lev. which may or may not have been collected within 

 the state. In 1875, Tuckerman and Frost's" " Catalogue of Plants 

 Growing without Cultivation within Thirty Miles of Amherst 

 College " appeared. In the list of fungi, Frost included four 

 species of Helvella: H. crispa Fr., H. elastica Bull., H. lacunosa 



2 The same list is repeated in his Report on the Geology, Botany and 

 Zoology of Massachusetts (1833) and in his Catalogues of the Animals and 

 Plants of Massachusetts (1835). 



