Ord. IX. Tribe I. FUNGI HYMENOMYCETES. 1015 
16185 Glabrous dry blackish, Stipes somewhat scaly [thin and attenuated downwards 
16186 Smooth very slimy in moist weather black, Hymen, cylind. round, at apex confluent with stipes which is 
16187 Green somewhat fasciculate, Hymenium distinct. Stipes minutely scaly 
16188 The only species 
16189 Yellow subgregarious. Cap orange-yellow obtuse hollow : margin connate with the stipes 
16190 Very small. Head lanceolate yellow, Stipes equal paler 
16191 Gregarious solid, Hymenium ovate yellow cinnamon. Stipes slender dark-brown flexuose at the oase 
16192 White filiform elongated somewhat villose at the base radicular tuber dark fuscous lenticular 
16193 Gregarious min. Hymenium smooth white short terminal, in an elongated filiform dark pink-red stipes 
16184 Simple smooth dark thickened at end 
16195 Somewhat branched spadiceous. Heads thickened whitish 
16196 Thickened towards the extremity white confluent with the stipes 
Class II. Uterini v. Elvellace^e. — Division I. Mitrati. 
16197 Cap round, or oval : marg. contract, round the stipes. Areolae much hollow. Stipes white dilat. tow. base 
« Cap and areolae round 
|S Cap oval. Areolae quadrangular 
1619iB Cap obtuse separate as far as the middle, Areolfe rhomboid, Stipes smooth [thick white 
16199 Cap short conic, spread, at base, Areolaj shall, partly formed by longitudin. parallel ribs, Stipes long equal 
* Cap waxy, inemhranous, at first united, afterwards wavy in plaits. 
16200 Cap irregularly deflexed free often variously lobed yellow.-white, Stipes deeply sulcate and lacunose white 
16201 Cap dark-livid inflated deflex. and partially adnate with stipes. Stipes deeply furrow, and lacunose white 
16202 Cap inflated deformed wavy wrinkled in circles brown. Margin villous adhering to the smooth stipes 
16203 Cap deflexed lobed adnate about cinnamon-colored. Stipes smoothish villous pale 
** Cap somewhat membranous, smooth, always separate. 
16204 Cap loose smooth inflated becoming sharply lobed. Stipes long thin tapering pruinose 
16205 Cap campanulate smoothish fuscous somewhat sinuated at the edge : beneath and the stipes yellow 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
anastomose, but which are united by transverse rugosities. The color is usually yellowish, rarely of a pale 
livid hue. 
2, M. elata hag a longer stipes than the last, an inch and more thick, very hollow and brittle, with irregular 
cavities. The pileus is ovate-conical, two or three inches long, but of a far more delicate texture than any of 
the others. The longitudinal ribs are much elevated, membranous, flaccid, with very few anastomoses, but 
united by transverse costae, which give the spaces between a sort of misshapen rhomboidal figure. The color 
is a soft brown. The flavor is watery and vapid, and in decay becomes so fetid as to be unfit for food. This 
is found in pine-woods, erpecially in humid places. It is a rarer kind than the last and like it, appears in the 
spring. 
M. patula and semilibera are readily known from the true morels by their pileus not being attached to the 
stipes by the base, but altogether separate from it. They are distinguished from each other by the latter 
having a much longer stipes, and a shorter pileus, which is more conical and acute. M. patula is considered 
by Fries to have been confounded, in Mr. Sowerby's fine work on Fungi, with Helvella esculenta. 
2387. Helvella. A name employed by Cicero, as the name of a fungus. The species of the modern genus 
are permanent, somewhat fragile fungi, with little odor or taste, but always innocuous. They grow on the 
earth or upon very wet wood, and are chiefly found in the autumn. H. crispa is excellent as an article of 
cookery. H. lacunosa, which is confounded with it, is jy no means so good. H. esculenta has a good flavor, 
and is commonly eaten, but is far inferior to Morchella esculenta. Its qualities are nearly the same as those 
of the latter plant, and it is popularly confounded with it under the name, in Sweden, of Stenmurkla, and in 
Germany, of Gemeine Morchel, Sttnnpf Morchel, and Stockmorchel. H. infula, a large species, with an inflated 
smooth pileus of various hues of brown, is also esculent. This last plant is the true H. Mitra of Ruppius, and 
old botanists ; a name which, having been applied by one writer or other to every species of Helvella, is now 
abandoned altogether in order to avoid further confusion. 
2388.. Verpa. An old Roman name synonymous with Phallus, and restored to modern science by Swartz. 
The species are meteoric, terrestrial, and intermediate between the Morels and Leotia. The hymenium is 
covered, as is the case with many Mitrati, with a frost-like flocculence, which Swartz mistook for sporules, but 
which more i-ecent observation has shewn to have been a mistake. 
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