H. Califor`nica Phillips. Pileus bell-shaped or saddle-shaped, deflexed, sublobate, free, veined beneath, purplish-brown. Stem longitudinally pitted between ridges, rosy-pink. Asci cylindrical, narrowed toward the base. Sporidia 8, elliptical, binucleate, 17×9µ paraphyses linear, clavate and brown at the apices.
2–6 in. in diameter. Stem 2–6 in. high, .75–1.5 in. in diameter.
On the earth in dense forests near rocks. Sierra Nevada mountains; California, Harkness.
Edible. Harkness.
It presents characters essentially different from those of any species hitherto described. Its nearest ally is H. crispa, from which it differs in the color of the hymenium and stem and in being a larger species.
H. lacuno´sa Afzel.—uneven, pitted. Pileus inflated, lobed, cinereous-black, lobes deflexed, adnate. Stem white or dusky, hollow, exterior ribbed, forming intervening cavities; asci cylindrical, stemmed; sporidia ovate, hyaline.
Solitary or gregarious; very variable in size.
North Carolina, Curtis; Massachusetts, Sprague, Frost; White mountains, Farlow; Rhode Island, Bennett; California, H. and M.
Edible. Cordier, Berkeley, Badham, Cooke, Curtis.
H. sulca´ta Afzel.—furrowed. Pileus deflexed, equally 2–3 lobed, even, compressed, darker when dry. Stem 2 in. long, 4–5 lines thick, stuffed, equal, longitudinally furrowed. Spores very broadly elliptic, with a single large globose nucleus, 15–18µ long B. and Br.