Systema Mycologicum, Vol 2

lii continued from previous page times; for neither have his species been confirmed nor has the cited testimony of Scopoli been refuted. In regions where they appear more copiously, it has not been my fortune to be present in the spring season, for which reason I have only been able to add a little, and I entrust the entire genus to further examination. Regarding the economic use of Morchellae, compare Trattin., Pers. Ch. Com. p. 258.

DIVIS. based on the pileus being more or less distinct from the stipe:

• Pileus attached at the base (1-6.)
  ** Pileus free at the base (7-12.)

• Pileus attached at the base (hollow inside).
  Fung. esc. gen I. Clus. Hist. p. 264. Boletus, Mich. gen. p. 203. Phallus — — pileus attached everywhere from beneath. Linn. Cliff. p. 479. Phallus IV. Gled. meth. p. 59.

1. M. esculenta, pileus ovate and attached at the base, with firm ribs anastomosing forming a network into areolae small open spaces, with a smooth stipe.

Spongiolæ. Port. Hist. l. X. c. 70. Fungi favaginosi honeycombed fungi. Lob. ic. 2 p. 271. Merulius. Bauh. hist. XL. c. 37. Menzel. pug. t. 6. various forms. Phallus esculentus. Linn Suec. 1262. Schæff. fung. t. 199. (298, 299, 300.) Bull champ. p. 273. t 2 8. Bolt. t. 91. Berg. Mat. Med. II. p. 868. Pell Pal. III. p. 304. Helv. Phalloides. Afz. Obs. p. 5. Morchella esc. Pers. syn. p. 618. Tratt. essb. Schw. p. 168. t. EE.

Weak odor and pleasant taste. Stipe hollow, rarely stuffed except when young, an inch long (but it varies quite a bit), soft, whitish, with a scaly-villous surface, but not striated, now equal, now attenuated. Pileus more or less ovate, obtuse, with ribs frequently anastomosing without transverse ribs. Otherwise, as to form, size, and color, it luxuriates greatly. In the spring time in higher regions on the ground, here and there abundantly. (v. v. original: "vidi vivam" — seen alive)