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fifty specimens that he has phalloidea, multicolor, and callichroa ; by the 
time he has seen one hundred this belief is considerably shaken : and 
further experience forces him to the conclusion that there is only one 
species. Nor is it possible to separate forms on such characters as the 
relative position of the cap and net, the rounded or flattened bands of the 
net, the size of the meshes, the depth of the net, and the extent of its 
spread.” 
Lloyd (‘Synopsis of the known Phalloids,’ 20 (1909)) says that the 
colour forms of D. phalloidea “have a geographical significance. They 
do not occur in Samoa; and Mr. ©. B. Ussher, who has observed the species 
in tropical Africa, informs me that they are absent there.” 
The smell of D. phalloidea is, according to Méller, worse than that of 
Phallus impudicus ; the smell of D. callichroa bears no resemblance to it, 
and is ‘‘ schwach, wiederlich siisslich.” Bailey writes concerning D. multi- 
color :—“ The odour of this beautiful fungus is decidedly strong and far 
from being agreeable, but it has not the loathsomeness of an Aseroé.” 
Petch says the smell of the Ceylon specimens is not by any means s0 
offensive as that of P. impudicus, being rather sweet, slightly offensive 
indoors, and scarcely perceptible at a short distance from the fungus in ~ 
the open, so that he was never able to detect it by its smell, as one often 
does Phallus. Miss Gibbs informs me that after her first gathering of the 
fungus it was nearly always by smell that she afterwards detected it. 
LYCOPERDACESA. 
GEASTER FIMBRIATUS Fr. Syst. Mycol. iii. 16 (1829). 
Manokoeari, rank jungle at edge of ‘“‘ korang ” forest on ground, 200’. 
Jan. 6173. 
Distrib. Recorded from all continents except Asia (?). 
GEASTER MIRABILIS Mont., var. TRICHIFER Lloyd, Mycological Notes, xxv. 
314, 317 (1907). G. trichifer Rick in Lloyd, l. ¢. 
“Ts really a form of Geaster mirabilis, but the exoperidium is strongly 
strigose, and the only Geaster known that has this character ” (Lloyd). 
Manokoeari, rank jungle at edge of “korang” forest on wood, 200'. 
Jan. 5753. 
Distrib. Brazil. 
Fungi Imperfecti. 
HYPHOMYCETES. 
(YLINDROPHORA EPITRICHA Ramsbottom, sp. nov. 
Cespitulis minutis albis, byssinis; hyphis ad basim 4 p er.; septatis, ramulos 
simplices unilaterales ferentibus ; hyphis fertilibus ascendentibus vel subrepentibus, 
non-septatis ; conidiis ellipsoideis, 7~10 p x 3-4 p. 
In setis Sarcosoma novo-guineensis (q. v.). 5751. 
