G. cur´tipes Fr.—curtus, short; pes, a foot. Pileus inflated, gyrosely undulated, oblong, rotund, at first pallid then brownish; margin of pileus closely adnexed to the stem. Stem irregular, short or almost absent. Asci cylindrical. Sporidia .30×9µ fusiform, uninucleate. Paraphyses clavate.
On the ground. Spring. Readily distinguished from other species by the almost obliterated stem. Fries commends it highly as an esculent.
Separated from G. esculenta by paler color, shorter stem and different spores.
G. Carolinia´na (Bosc.) Fr. Pileus rotund, base free, surface woven into deep irregular undulating folds. Stem conical, sulcate. Asci cylindrical. Sporidia 3–3.2×1µ; somewhat fusiform; paraphyses thickened toward the top.
In woods. Esculent.
Massachusetts. Sprague.
Gyromitra brunnea.
G. brun´nea Underwood—brunneus, brown. A stout, fleshy, stipitate plant, 3–5 in. high, bearing a broad, much contorted, brown ascoma. Stem ¾-1.5 in. thick, more or less enlarged and spongy, solid at the base, hollow below, rarely slightly fluted, clear white; receptacle 2–4 in. across in the widest direction, the two diameters usually considerably unequal, irregularly lobed and plicate, in places faintly marked into areas by indistinct anastomosing ridges, closely cohering with the stem in the various parts, rich chocolate-brown or somewhat lighter if much covered with the leaves among which it grows, whitish underneath; asci 8-spored. Spores oval, 28–30µ long, by about 14µ wide, hyaline, somewhat roughened-tuberculate, usually nucleate, the highly refractive nucleus spherical or oval, 11µ or, if oval, 14×11µ in diameter; paraphyses slender, enlarged at the apex, faintly septate.