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Pl.cell.apk. 11. HYMENOTHECE^. 297. Helot. 661
2. Helotium ceruginosimi. Brassy head-slooL
Thalli in clusters, bright green ; cap concave, variously
shaped, edge irregular.
Helvella aeruginosa, Sowerby Fungi, 347 ;
Persoon Syn. 617.
On decayed wood, vi'hich it turns of a light green.
3. Helotium infundibuliformis. Funnelshape head-stool.
Thalluslar^e; stem thick, pale-brovi?n ; cap hemispheri-
cal ; above blackish, becoming concave ; beneath pale.
Helvella infundibuliformis, Scheeff. Fung, 277 ;
In damp shady places.
Sowerby Fungi, 133.
LVI. 298. RELHANUM. Relhan.
Thallus stipitate; cap conical, bellshape, edge curtainlike,
beneath smooth ; sporidia on the silky upper surface
of the cap.
Relhanum con'icmn. Conical Relha7i.
Stem cylindrical, pipey, yellowish ; cap above brown,
beneath yellow.
Phallu? conirus, Fl. Dan. 654.
Helvella Relhani, Sowerby Fungi, 11.
Leoiia? conica, Persuon Syn. 613.
On chalk-hills.
0. Helve LLiDE^. Thallus fleshy, long; cap mitrelike,
plaited or cellular, like network ; hymenium smooth, expanded.
LVH. 299. MORCHELLA. Dillenius. Moretl.
Stem hollow ; cap conical, above cellular in network
sporidia over the whole surface.—Wholesome, and fine
flavoured.
1. Morchella esculenta. Eatable morell.
Thallus yellowish ; stem filled up ; cap contracted at the
bottom.
Fungus favaginosus, Park. 1317; Rail Syn. 11,7. -.
Phallus esculentus, Lin. S. P. 1648.
Helvella esculenta, Sowerby Fungi, 51, left-hand fig.
Morchella esculenta, Persoon Syn. 618.
White morells.
In woods, especiallywhere fires have been madei spring.
When dry, used to flavour soups, as also the following.