CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Helvella. 
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Hel. mi'tra. Stem semi-transparent, ribbed, grooved: pileus, lobes 
growing to the stem. 
Helvella pileo dejlexo adnato lobato difformis. Linn. 
Sowerby 39— Bull. 466 and 190— Schoejf. 154. 282. 162—( Purl. 16. E.) 
— FI. Dan. 116— Mich. 86. 7 and 8— •Gled. 2. Elvela f. 3— Battar. 3. 
B. G. 
When old turns quite black, which is the reason why Schaeffer has figured 
it so many times. Mr. Woodward. It is extremely variable, the stem 
from half to two inches diameter, from one and a half to two or five inches 
high; the colour from that of colourless horn to pearly, to brown, and 
almost to black. The pileus not less variable in shape and size than the 
stem. The specimens before me may be described thus : Stem or rather 
a bundle of stems, about three inches high, nearly pellucid ; connected 
together by places, often serpentine, ribbed and grooved; from one to 
two inches diameter. Pileus covering several stems united together, 
rather brownish, thin ; brittle and tender; hanging over. Its under sur¬ 
face seems granulated, and is of a pale brown. 
(The difference in size, texture, and colour, which this plant assumes in 
youth, in age, when moist, or when exsiccated, is very remarkable, and 
may possibly account for the black appearance of Mr. Purton’s var. 
nigra, as represented in his middle figure. Greville asserts that Bolt. t. 
95. is Hel. elastica of Bull, and Hel. fuliginosa of Sowerby: that the 
species published as our plant, by the last named author, is Hel. luco - 
phcea of Pers. which is again figured by Purt. 16. If the plants bearing 
these several names be specifically distinct, they are extremely difficult 
to discriminate. That Hel. leucophaa of Pers. and Grev. 143. agrees with 
our Hel. mitra and its synonyms, we cannot doubt: we would even ven¬ 
ture to suggest that Hel. mitra of Grev. 36. may not prove absolutely 
different. 
(Coif-shaped Helvella. On the ground in shady places, among grass. 
E.) Near Bungay, but rather rare. Mr. Woodward. Close to the wall 
by the upper stew, at Edgbaston. Aug.—Nov. 
Hel. florifor'mis. Greyish brown, paler at the edges: stem in¬ 
versely conical, crooked, smooth: pileus funned-shaped, the edge 
thin, curled, and plaited. 
(, Sowerby 75. E)—Bull. 465. 1— Schaff. 278. 
Grows single or in clusters; substance leathery. Schieff. From one to three 
inches high : stem solid. Pileus from half to two inches over. 
(Funnel-shaped Plaited Helvella. E.) Hel. crispa. Bull. Found by 
Dickson in woods. 
Hel. CARYOPHYLLiE'A. (Dicks.) Almost sessile, leathery, in clusters ; 
pileus funnel-shaped, cut at the edge, brown, with flock-like 
radiated scores. 
(Sowerby 213. E.)—Bull. 483. 6. 7. and 278— Sclueff. 32 b—Willd. 7.15. 
(Bolt. 173. E.) 
Grows solitary or in clusters; leathery. Pileus funnel-shaped, brown, 
marked with concentric circles and radiating lines of darker and lighter 
shades of colour, variously cut and jagged at the edge, nearly one inch 
over (sometimes larger. E.) Stem tapering downwards, solid, brown, 
often crooked, thicker and lopped at the root, frequently eccentric, one- 
third of an inch high, half as much in diameter. Schseff. 
