ESCULENT FUNGI OF GREAT BRITAI^^. 3&1 
(excl. S^n. Sow. t. 39.)— >^^'^<?' 'S^^i- ^u^g- t. 18. 
, f. 163.-^Hook. Fl Scot. pt. % p. 31. (excl. Syn. Sow. 
t. 39.-— Pwr^. i¥i<i/. Fl V. 3. p. 255. t. 16. (central 
fig. ?)— Gr^t;. Scott. Crypt. Fl t. 39.—/^/. Edin. ined, 
Elvella mitra, (Eder Fl Ban, t. 116. 
Helvella lacunosa, Holmsk. \\ 2. p. 45. t. 24, 
Hel. sulcata, Willd. Berol. p. 398. 
Elvella nigricans, Schceff. Fung. t. 154, 
El. monacella, Schceff. L c. t. 162, 
Hab. On the ground, in woods and shaded places, among 
grass. Autumn, 
Desc. Pileus membranaceous, smooth on both sides, of 
different shades of colour, but generally dark and livid, 
inflated, irregular in form, deflexed at the sides, and 
partially adnate with the stem ; from being thus fold» 
ed down, 2 or 3 prominent ascending lobes are pro- 
duced, often giving the resemblance of a mitre; Stem 
2 — 6 inches high, | — 1 \ inches thick, whitish, chan- 
nelled, and lacunose or pitted, variously divided 
through its whole substance into longitudinal cavities, 
the partitions of which are semitransparent like wax. 
Sporuliferous cells on the upper surface, throwing out 
their sporules in the form of an elastic powder. 
This species has long been confounded with others by 
the botanists of this country ; Sowerby's figure being the 
following, and Bolton^s H. elastica, I believe, in every 
state, H. mitra will be found with the pileus more or less 
adnate with the stem. In the smaller figure of the plate, 
in Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, t have represented a spe- 
cimen, which, at first sight, much resembled //. teucophosa ; 
the pileus was, however, partially adnate, a circumstance I 
never observed in that species. 
VOL. IV. c c 
