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2. Pileus not cup-shaped, stipe white or very 

 light-colored, not villose. 

 i. Margin of pileus adnate with stipe. 



H. elastica. 



2. Entire plant whitish or smoky-white (may 



become brown in age or in drying). 

 2. Smoke-gray to fuscous-black, stipe very 



H. adhaerens. 



dark. 



2. Pileus brown, stipe white. Larger than the 

 two preceding species. 



H. atra. 



H. Monachella ( ?) 



I. Helvella crispa Fr. Sys. Myc. 2: 14. 1823 



Elvella pallida SchaefT. Fung. 3: t. 282. 1770. 



Phallus crispus Scop. Fl. Carn. 2: 475. 1772. 



Phallus lobatus Batsch. Elenchus fung. p. 129. 1783. 



H. lacunosa var. pallida Afz. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. nya Hancll. 



4: 303- 1783. 

 H. alba Berg. Phyt. 1. t 145. 

 H. nivea Schrad. Journ. Bot. 2: 66. 

 H. mitra var. alba Bull. Champ, p. 298. 1786. 

 H. mitra var. fulva Bull. Champ, p. 298. t. 466. 1789. 

 H. mitra Sow. Col. Fig. Brit. Fung. t. jo. 1797. 

 H. leucophaea Pers. Obs. Myc. 2: 19. 1799. 

 H. leucophaea Tratt. Ess. Schw., p. 163. 1809. 



Fries description. Pileo deflexo lobato liberato crispo pallido, 

 stipite fistuloso costato-lacunoso. 



Solitaria, magna, 3-5 unc. alta, primo obtutu glabra. Stipes 

 niveus exsiccatione flavescens, validus, deorsum ventricosus, 

 totus sulcato-costatus lacunosusque, costis planis fistulosis, unde 

 stipes dissectus e tubulis pluribus discretis componitur. Pileus 

 deflexus, inflatus lobatus, margine primo stipiti adnato, mox 

 libero undulato laciniato-contorto & crispato. 



Pileus drooping, lobed, irregularly wrinkled and contorted 

 above, margin at first slightly adnate to the stipe but soon free, 

 extreme margin curled upward in all of our specimens, fragile 

 and easily splitting, white, cream color, light-buff or yellow, 1.5-7 

 cm. in diameter, glabrous, smooth or sometimes rugulose be- 

 neath. Stipe stout, glabrous or pruinose, white or colored like 

 pileus, ventricose toward the base and attenuate upward, longi- 

 tudinally sulcate-costate, lacunose by the irregular anastomosing 

 of the outer margins of the costae, whole stipe apparently formed 

 by the edgewise anastomosing of flat plates enclosing tubes in 

 the center and furrows on the surface, 2-10 cm. tall, .8-2 cm. 



