6 2 
Rhodora 
[April 
center in my specimens, margin adhering closely to the stem; spores 
18-20 x 10 /x. The largest specimen in dried state measures 12 cm. high 
and ascigerous portion 8 cm. broad. 
On rotten pine logs by wood roads and on ground in wood roads, 
Grand View Mt., and mountains near E. Middlebury ( Burt), August 6 
and 26. 
The specimens agree closely with the description and with Schaef¬ 
fer’s tab'. 159. The species is rather intermediate between Gyromitra 
and Helvella, and is sometimes included in the one genus and some¬ 
times in the other. According to Underwood, 1 this species has been 
found in this country heretofore only in North Carolina and New York. 
6 . Helvella crispa (Scop.) Fr. Stem deeply and interruptedly sul- 
cate; ascigerous portion deflexed, lobed, often free, crisped, white or 
whitish; spores 18 x 10 /x. The fructifications are stated to attain a 
height of 5-15 cm.; my specimens have been small, about 5 cm. high. 
In oak woods and by roadside, Lake Dunmore (Bur/), September 
9 and 14. 
7. Helvella sulcata Afz. Stem sulcate, with deep longitudinal 
furrows and thin ribs, somewhat lacunose; ascigerous portion nearly 
black in my specimens, lobed, deflexed, adherent to stem along under 
surface; spores 16 x 12 /x. 
Under side of rotten log in woods, Lake Dunmore (Burt), August 31. 
My specimens were barely 4 cm. high and on the whole, agree 
better with H. sulcata, if this is to be regarded as a distinct species 
and not a small form of H. lacunosa Afz. 
8. Helvella elastica Bull. Stem slender, even, cylindrical, some¬ 
times compressed with age, 9 cm. long, about 5 mm. thick, white, 
pruinose; ascigerous portion bilobed, saddle-shaped, decurved at the 
sides but free from the stem, umbrino-castaneus of Saccardo’s Chromo- 
taxia, on upper surface, white and finely rugose on under side, 4 cm. 
long, 2 cm. high; spores 18-22 x 11-12 /x. (Fig. 3.) 
Lake Dunmore (Barlow) ; in wet moss in wood, Lost Pleiad Pond 
(Burt), August 31. 
As indicated by the above notes, our specimens are the form with 
dark upper surface to ascigerous portion and with white under surface 
and stem, figured under the name of Elvella fuliginosa in Schaeffer’s 
leones, tab. 320. The other common European form with upper sur¬ 
face of the ascigerous portion yellowish has not yet been found in 
Vermont. 
8a. H. elastica var. fusca Bull. Champ., pi. 242, fig. D. This 
differs from the forms above in having the under surface of the asciger¬ 
ous portion and the stem fuscous (ater of Chromotaxia) ; spores 
18 x 10-11 /X. 
On ground in mixed woods, Lake Dunmore (Burt), August. 
1 On the Distribution of N. Amer. Helvellales. Minn. Bot. Studies, Bull. 9 : 483. 
