. Guide to Sowerby's models of British fungi in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History) . Fig. 74.—Helvella crispa J^r.(Natural size.) GENUS XL.— VERPA Receptacle stipitate, regularlypileate, equally deflexed all round,conical; hymenium even or are three British species ofVerpa, one of which is representedby a model. 181. Verpa conica Sw.—Pileusslightly fleshy, campanulate, nearlyeven, brown; margin sub-sinuate,yellow beneath, as well as theslender, equal, round, hollow stalk, V. conica grows on heaths andis very rare. GENUS XLI.—LEOTIA Hill. Receptacle s
. Guide to Sowerby's models of British fungi in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History) . Fig. 74.—Helvella crispa J^r.(Natural size.) GENUS XL.— VERPA Receptacle stipitate, regularlypileate, equally deflexed all round,conical; hymenium even or are three British species ofVerpa, one of which is representedby a model. 181. Verpa conica Sw.—Pileusslightly fleshy, campanulate, nearlyeven, brown; margin sub-sinuate,yellow beneath, as well as theslender, equal, round, hollow stalk, V. conica grows on heaths andis very rare. GENUS XLI.—LEOTIA Hill. Receptacle stipitate, irregularlypileate, supported at the centre,orbicular, revolute at the margin ;hymenium undulate or even. Thereare four British species, two ofwhich are represented by models. Fig- 75-—Verpa digitaliformis Pars.(Natural size.) 72 GUIDE TO THE MODELS OF FUNGI. 182. Leotia lubrica Pers. — Receptacle irregularly globular,yellow-olivaceous-grten, slimy; stalk pulpy within, at lengthhollow, nearly equal, yellowish, clammy, withminute squamules. L. lubrica grows in woods and in damp,bushy places ; not uncommon ; gregarious, some-what cacspitose. 183. Leotia
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