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50-65 X3 ft; paraphyses very slender, septate, often branched, the 
unthickened tips more or less curved. 
Syn. — Elvella clavata, Schaeffer, Icon. Fung. ii. tab. 149, 1773. 
Helvella spathulata , Afzelius, Vet. Acad. Handl., 1775. 
Clavaria spathulata , Mull., Flor. Dan. tab. 658, 1775. 
Helvella feritoria, Bolton, Hist. Fung. tab. 97, 1789. 
Spathularia flavida , Persoon, Tentamen Disp. meth. Fung. 36, 
1797; Cooke, Mycogr. 203, f. 342, 1878; Phil., Brit. Disc. 30, 
pi. ii, f. 7, 1887. 
Helvella spathularia , Sowerby, Eng. Fung. tab. 97, 1789. 
Spathularia flava , Swartz, Vet. Akad. Handl. 10, 1812. 
Spathularia flavida , (3 crispa , Corda, Icon, ii, tab. 15, f. 125, 1838. 
Mitrula spathulata , Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 583, 1846. 
Spathularia flavida , P., var. plicata , Thiimen, in Thiim., Fung. 
Austr. n. 925. 
•ZEarjv — Sydow, Myc. March, n. 2516; Flor. Exs. Austro-Hung. 
n. 1947; Ellis, N. Amer. Fung. n. 1268; Schweiz. Krypt. n. 215; 
Fuckel , Fung. Rhen. nn. 1143, 2484 ; Klotzsch-Rabenh., Herb. Myc. 
n. 28 ; Roum., Fung. Sel. Gall. n. 326 ; Karsten , Fung. Fenn. n. 140; 
Thiimen , Fung. Austr. n. 925; Jack , Leiner, u. Sitzenb., Krypt. 
Badens, n. 337; Cooke, Fung. Brit. n. 470; Phil., Elv. Brit. n. 3; 
Rab., Fung. Eur. n. 126, Holl , Schmidt, and Kunze, Deutschl. Schw. 
n. cxciv ; Rehm , Ascom. n. 426; West, and Wall., n. 1085; Berk., 
Brit. Fung. n. 257 ; Desmazieres, Crypt. France, sdr. 2, n. 455; Sacc ., 
Myc. Ven. n. 168. 
Hab. — Britain, Portugal ( Henriquez ), France, Belgium, Norway, 
Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Finland, United States 
(Maine, Fuller, n. 22). 
Very variable in size, the smaller forms sometimes closely resem- 
bling large specimens of Mitrula laricina. 
Spathularia flava, Massee (non Swartz). (PI. XII. Figs. 25, 26.) 
Gregarious ; ascigerous portion narrowly elliptic-oblong or narrowly 
elliptical, laterally compressed, grooved, showing a tendency to be 
decurrent down opposite sides of the stem, from which it is sharply 
differentiated at the base, about 2 cm. long, 5-7 mm. wide, pale 
primrose-yellow ; stem equal, or slightly thickened at the summit, 
a little paler in colour than the fertile portion, and about equal to 
it in length. Asci clavate; spores arranged in a parallel fascicle, 
