Dodge—Wisconsin Discomycetes. 
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Helvetia pallescens Schaeff. 
These plants correspond well with the figures by Schaeffer, leones, 
pi. 322, and Bresadola, Fung. Trid. pi. Ilf6, in having a long, deeply 
sulcate stipe. On the ground among needles, Blahnik’s woods, Algoma, 
September 1804-1909 (Dodge). Rehm vid. 
Gy remit ra curtipes Fr. 
On the ground, Danek’s woods, May 1906. (Dodge). 
Gyromitra gigas (Krombh.) Cke. 
Barron, May 1906 (no. 1., Cheney). 
Verpa digitaJiformis Pers. 
Woods, near coal shed, Madison, May 1903; on ground in lawn, 
Wodsedalek’s, Algoma, May 1905 (G. Andregg). 
Verpa perpusilla Rehm. (Ann. My c., 7: 526, 1909). 
Apothc-cia gregarious, arising from a subterranean white mycelium, 
erect, stipitate, obtusely campanulate, apex often depressed, acute, 
margin not inrolled nor folded, exterior subfuscous, 0.5-1 cm. high, 
up to 2 cm. broad, stipe central, more or less cylindrical, 3 mm. thick, 
up to 5 mm. thick and sub-compressed at the base, solid, smooth, 
1.5-5 cm. high, yellowish or whitish. Asci cylindrical, rounded at the 
apex, 200x14 mic., 8-spored. Spores ellipsoid, obtuse at both ends, 
one-celled, one large central oil globule, 15—20x9—10 mic., monostich- 
ous. Paraphyses filiform, gradually enlarging toward the apex to 8 
mic., hyaline. 
“Verpa pusilla Quel. (Sacc., 8: 72, Cooke, Mycog., pi. 101, fig. 366) 
differs in the form of the cap, in the color of its under surface, spores 
without oil globules, and brown paraphyses.” 
Helvella elastica is often found in the same locality. Under tama¬ 
rack and fir, Blahnik’s woods, Algoma, August 1909 (no. 1857, Rehm 
Asc. Exs., Dodge). 
MoreheUa bispora Sorok. 
Probably identical with Verpa bohemica. The Madison forms show 
ridges of the hymenium markedly reticulated. 
Milwaukee, April 1905; Madison. 
Morcheila conica Pers. 
This species has frequently been called a variety of M. esculenta. 
The pileus is distinctly conical and brown, clearly different from the 
yellowish-olive, more or less rounded pileus of M. esculenta. Kromb- 
holz, Schwamme, pi. 16, fig. 7, 8 , 10, represents the smaller forms, and 
