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(The original of Miss Ellis’s drawing, tom. cit. t, xiv. f. 16, is in the B.M. 
collection. It is made up from the specimen and the accompanying sketches, 
and probably poorly represents the former when gathered, either in shape or 
colour.) The veil is dependent, but judging from the type-specimen there 
is no reason against considering it, from a morphological point of view, as a 
badly-preserved D. phalloidea. Penzig (Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, xvi. 
154 (1899)) records D. multicolor from Java, where he found it not very 
common. He regards it as easily distinguishable from D. phalloidea by its 
orange-coloured indusium. The volva is dark brown, the stipe pale yellow 
(cream), and the pileus dark yellow after the dark olive-green gleba has 
been washed away; the mycelial strands are reddish. He regards this 
species as, on the average, smaller than D. phalloidea. 
The specimens of the present collection are doubtless D. pudiiaolor as 
interpreted by Penzig.1 
Another species which apparently differs only in colour from D. phalloidea 
is D. callichroa MGll., based upon a single collection (Moller, tom. cit. 129). 
The pileus of both specimens was orange, and the mouth rose-coloured. The 
stipe and indusium were pure white. ‘Bei keinem der sonst beobachteten 
(iiber 40) Fruchtkérper von D. phallotdea wurde eine tihnliche Farbung, wie 
hier, auch nur andeutungsweise je beobachtet.” 
Hennings (Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxv. 505 (1898)) gives the name D. phalloidea 
forma aurantiaca to a specimen from New Guinea with an orange-yellow 
pileus and a snow-white indusium. Fischer (Mitt. naturf. Gesell. Bern, 
110 (1907)) describes a form with a white volva and a yellowish-brown 
indusium. 
Concerning Ceylon specimens, Petch (I. ¢.) says that the commonest 
form has a white stalk, a white cap, and a salmon-pink net. A pure white 
specimen is rare, though the specimens developed from “eggs” were 
white, suggesting that separation from the mycelial strands influenced 
the colour. (Miller’s specimens, except D. callichroa, were developed from 
collected eggs.) Petch summarizes his observations : “ Altogether, it may 
be said that the cap may be white, pale yellow, or orange; the stalk may 
be white, yellow, orange, or pink; and the net may be white, yellow, 
orange, orange-red, pink, or salmon. Examples occur with all possible 
combinations of these colours, without any. structural differences which 
would warrant their separation as species.... In some of the Ceylon 
specimens the mycelium and volva are white, in others they are violet, 
or the top of the unopened egg is purple; and there seems to be some 
correlation between the presence of colour in the volva and mycelium, 
and its absence from the mature fructification.... It seems impossible 
to maintain species on colour. In Ceylon, one +7 certain after gathering 
1 Qleland and Cheel record this form for Australia (Journ, Roy. Soc. N.S.W. xlix. 200 
(1916)). cg 
