298 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Helvella. 
(Brown Radiated Helvella. Hel. caryophyllcea . Dicks. With. Meru- 
lius caryophyllceus. With, to Ed. 7. Auricularia caryophyllea. Sowerby. 
Purt. Elvela caryophyllea. SchaefF. Bolt. Thelephora careophyttea. Hook. 
E.) Oq the ground in plantations of firs near Bungay, Suffolk. Mr. 
Woodward. Near the ground on the inside of a turf wall inclosing a 
plantation of firs near Ampthill, Bedfordshire, opposite Lord Ossory’s 
park on the right of the road to Woburn. Mr. Knapp. 
Hel. cartilagin'ea. (Bolt.) Stem very short: pileus convex, flat- 
tish, scarlet, smooth. 
Bolt. 101. 1. 
This plant is firm, gristly, semi-pellucid; the colour deep orange, or scarlet. 
Stem solid, very short. Pileus smooth, rather slippery ; border thin. 
Bolton. 
(Scarlet Cartilaginous Helvella. E.) On old walls and rocks among 
moss. 
Hel. gelatinous a. Yellow: pileus arched, edge rather lobed, puck¬ 
ered underneath, gelatinous within: stem hollow. 
( Grev. Scot. Crypt. 66. E.)— Bull. 473. 2—( Sowerby 70. E.)— FI. Dan. 719. 
Grows in clusters. Stem as thick as a goose quill, thicker downwards; 
about three inches high. Pileus near one inch in diameter. 
(Gelatinous Helvella. Leotia lubrica. Pers. Grev. Not unfrequent in 
the woods of England and Scotland. E.) Found by Mr. Relhan at Hall- 
wood, also at Wood-Ditton. Oct. 
Var. 2. Pileus dusky olive brown : stem rich yellow. 
Pileus a quarter to half an inch over; unequally lobed, and very much 
rolled in at the edge. Stem hollow, semi-transparent; glutinous ; from 
two to two and a half inches high, of a beautiful rich yellow colour; 
tapering upwards : sometimes forked at the top and bearing two heads. 
In clusters under beeches, in the Red rock plantation, Edgbaston. Sept. 
Hel. clava'ta. (SchaefF.) Plant yellow: pileus sloping: stem some¬ 
what compressed. Dicks. 1. 19- 
Schceff. 149. 
Plant soft, fleshy, solitary or in clusters. Pileus yellow, oval, compressed, 
slanting uneven at the edge, near one inch long, and half an inch broad. 
Stem solid, yellow, swollen at the base, tapering upwards, one and a half 
inch high, one-third of an inch diameter at the base, one-sixth at the top. 
Schaeffer. Grows in clusters. Sometimes two and a half inches high. 
Stem solid, tapering upwards. Pileus flatted at top, the edge turned in 
and waved. Whole plant .slimy and gelatinous. 
(Yellow Compressed Helvella. Elvela clavata. Schaeff. Helvella 
spatulata. Purt. by whom this plant is identified with Clavaria spathula. 
It is also the Spathularia Jlavida of Persoon. E.) Woods in Autumn. 
Under beech trees. Pendarvis, Cornwall. Mr. Stackhouse. 
Hel. rel'hani. Stem hollow, cylindrical, yellow: pileus yellow 
brown, with reddish streaks, conical. 
Sowerby 11. 
Stem about two inches high, thick as a crow quill. Pileus acutely conical, 
hardly half an inch from the base to the apex, the edges slightly fringed. 
(Relhan's Helvella. E.) First found by the Rev. Richard Relhan, on 
the north side of Gogmagog Hills. 
