Order 23. ELVELLAOEI.
Hymenium at length more or less exposed. Substance soft.
243. MORCHELLA, Dill.
Receptacle clavate or pileate, impervious in the centre, stipitate,
covered with the hymenium, .which is deeply folded
and pitted.
1. M. esoulenta, P. ; pileus ovate, adnate at the base; ribs
firm, anastomosing, and forming deep pits; stem even. (Plate
31, fig. 5.)—Grev. i. 68 ; Huss. i. t. 13.
In woods, gardens, etc. Esculent. Varying much in
breadth and height, sometimes conical (no. 553), sometimes
almost cylindrical.
2. M. patula, P. ; pilens obtuse, free halfway up ; pits
rhomboid ; stem even.—Sow. t. 51, in part.
In woods, etc. Rare.
3. M. semilitaera, DC. ; pileus conical, free halfway up ;
ribs longitudinal, forming oblong pits, which are veined within
; stem even.—Grev. t. 89.
Under hedges, etc. Not uncommon.
243. GYEOMITBA, Fr.
Receptacle inflated, búllate, rough with raised gyrose ribs.
1. G. esculenta, Fr.; pileus inflated, irregular, undulated,
gyroso-rugose, brown ; margin united with the even villous
stem : (no. 825.)
In pine-woods. Rare. Weybridge, F. Currey.
244. HELVELLA, L.
Receptacle pileate, hanging down over the stem, concave
and barren below. Hymenium even.
1. H. crispa, Fr. ; pileus deflexed, lobed, at length free,
crisped, pallid; stem fistulose, costato-lacunose. (Plate 21,
fig. 4.)—Grev. t. 143 ; Sow. t. 39.
In woods. Common. Esculent.
3. H. lacunosa, A fz .; pileus inflated, lobed, cinereous-
black ; lobes deflexed, adnate ; stem fistulose, costato-lacunose.—
Grev. t. 36.
In woods. Common. Esculent. H. sulcata (no. 764) is,
I believe, only a form of this.
3. H. elastica, Bull. ; pileus free, even, inflated, at length
acutely lobed ; stem elongated, slender, attenuated, pruinose.
—Sow. t. 154 : (no. 86.)
In woods. Not uncommon. Approaches very near to
Peziza macropus,
4. H. ephippium. Lèv. ; small ; pileus deflexed, lobed, decidedly
velvety beneath : (no. 552.)
On the ground, in woods. Not uncommon. Scarcely one
inch high.
245. VEBPA, Swartz.
Receptacle clavato-pileate, hollow below and inflated, or
conical and adpressed, equally deflexed all round ; hymenium
rugulose, but not costate, or nearly even.
I . V. digitalifonnis, P. ; pileus campanulate, finger-
shaped, rugulose, umber; stem equal, minutely squamulose
transversely. (Plate 21, fig. 6.)
Under hedges. Rare. King’s Clifie. Suffolk, Shopper.
3. V. conica, Sow. ; pileus campanulate, nearly even,
brown ; margin slightly sinuated, yellow beneath, as is also
the equal stem.—Sow. t. 11.
On the ground. Very rare.
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