Systema Mycologicum, Vol 2 (1823) - Page 21

Trib. I. MITRÆ.

H. Mitra. original: "Linn. Suec. p. 456!"

CHAR. Stipe firm, thickened toward the base. Pileus cap waxy-membranous, inflated, lobed, at first adnate attached to the stipe and smooth; later becoming free. Large, edible: (I could not name any species H. mitra, lest I nourish the ancient controversies by which this name is burdened).

stipe lacunose pitted or channeled.

1. H. crispa, pileus deflexed bent downward, lobed, free, crisp, pale; stipe fistulose hollow, costate-lacunose ribbed and pitted.

Fungus emitting for a head several laciniate torn/fringed laminae resembling oak leaves. original: "Raji Hist. III. p. 25." Fungoides with a thick, striate, rimose cracked, and fistulose stalk. original: "Mich. gen. p. 204. t. 86. f. 7." Elvella I. original: "Gled. meth. p. 36. t. 2. f. 3." - Hall. helv. n. 2240. Phallus crispus. original: "Scop. Carn. II. p. 475." Phallus lobatus. original: "Batsch El. p. 129."

a. pileus white, becoming pale. Fungus with a plicate folded head. original: "Raji Syn. ed. 3. p. 8. n. 39." H. albida whitish. original: "Schæff. fung. t. 282." H. lacunosa b. pallida pale. original: "Afzel. l. c. p. 303." H. alba white. original: "Berg. phyt. l. t. 145." H. mitra var. alba. original: "Bull. Champ p. 298. t. 466." H. mitra. original: "Sowerb. fung. t. 39." H. nivea snow-white. original: "Schrad. Journ. 2. p. 66." H. leucophæa greyish-white. original: "Pers. Obs. 2. p 19. Syn. p. 616." original: "Schum. Sæll. 2. p. 410." original: "Fl. Dan. t. 1560."

b. incarnata flesh-colored.

c. lutescens becoming yellow, dry, brownish. original: "Batt. fung. p. 24. t. 2. fig." G. Gled. meth. p. 37. a. H. mitra var. fulva tawny. original: "Bull. l. c." H. leucophæa, original: "Trattin. essb. Schw. p. 163. t. DD."

Solitary, large, 3–5 inches high, glabrous smooth at first glance. Stipe snow-white, becoming yellowish upon drying, robust, ventricose swollen at the base, entirely sulcate-costate grooved and ribbed and lacunose, with flat, hollow ribs; thus, when the stipe is dissected, it is composed of several discrete tubes. Pileus deflexed, inflated, lobed, the margin at first adnate to the stipe, later free, undulate, crisp, pale, white or yellowish, smooth underneath.