CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Auricularia. 299 
Hel. au'rea. (Bolt.) Stem short, yellow: pileus umbrella-like, gold- 
coloured. 
Soiverhy 150— Bolt. 98. 2. 
Stem one-tenth to two-tenths of an inch high, tapering downwards, solid. 
Pileus convex, flatfish, thin at the edge, golden yellow above, paler 
underneath, a quarter of an inch over. The plant is brittle, watery and 
semi-pellucid. Bolton. 
(Golden Parasol Helvella. Pezi%a aureci. Sowerby. E.) Woods in 
moist watery places on sticks and stems of plants. 
Hel. fibulifor'mis. (Bolt.) Stem short, black: pileus rather convex, 
yellow: dusky black underneath. 
Bolt. 176. 
Stem solid, firm, a line in length. Pileus gently convex, but flat at the 
top, hard, smooth, slippery, hardly a quarter of an inch over. Bolt. 
(Button-shaped Helvella. E.) On a branch of the root of an elm 
within reach of the sprinklings of a stream. 
Hel. jerugino'sa. (Oeder.) FI. Dan. ix. 7* With a stem: very 
small, bright green: pileus of various shapes. Dicks, ii. 24. 
FI. Dan. 534. 2— {Sowerby 347. E.) 
Hardly a quarter of an inch in height. Pileus concave, generally slanting, 
uneven at the edge and very irregular in shape. 
(Verdigrise Helvella. Hel. reruginosa. Sowerby. Dicks. Pers. Purt. 
E.) On decayed wood. 
Hel. fuligino'sa. (Schaeff.) Stem hollow, greyish: pileus inflated, 
angular, plaited, blackish. 
Bull. 245 1 — Bolt. 95—( Sowerby 154. E.)— Schceffi 320. 
Stem dusky white, greyish, hollow, uneven, twisted and furrowed, two to 
four inches high, thick as a goose or raven quill. Pileus pale olive to dark 
sooty colour, brittle, thin, very irregular in its shape, depressed into 
angles and lobes, one to two inches over. Schaeff. Bolt. Bull. Stem 
more slender than in Hel. mitra, not cavernous or wrinkled, elastic, soft. 
Grows many together, Pendarvis, Cornwall. Mr. Stackhouse. 
Fuliginous Helvella. (This is Hel. mitra of Bolton, and indeed, except¬ 
ing in its more slender stem, nearly approaches to certain states of that 
species as generally received. Hel. fuliginosa. Sowerby. Dicks. Purt. 
Hel. elastica. Bull. Hel . nigricans. Pers. E.) Moist woods and hedges, 
not common. (Abundant in Ragley woods, near Pophills, Aleester. 
Air. Purton. E.) 
Hel. pla'na. Pileus flat, livid: stem smooth. Huds. 633. 
(Flat Helvella. E.) Woods. Aug—Oct. 
AURICULA'RIA.* Flat, membranous, fixed by its whole 
under side, but becoming detached and 
turning up with age. Seeds discharged 
slowly from what was the upper, but is 
in its state of maturity, the under sur¬ 
face. 
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* (From its general resemblance to the external ear, E.) 
