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occur, P. impiidicus widely distributed and P. riibicimdus which 

 is imperfectly known. We have at least two species of Dicty- 

 ophora, D. Rave7iclii with the stem tapering at each end and with 

 a short veil, and D. diiplicata with an elegant latticed veil often 

 hanging like a bell-shaped skirt three or four inches wide. The in- 

 dications are that other species will be found ; a second species 

 with a rudimentary veil occurs in the south. 



The phalloids have usually been held to be poisonous, but no 

 one with the ordinary powers of smell would think of using them 

 as food. The odor in most cases is useful for the dissemination 

 of the spores since flies are attracted to the gleba and some of the 

 deliquescent mass adheres to their feet and is carried away. 



LITERATURE. 



Saccardo. Sylloge Fungorum, 7 : 1-27 ; 469, 470 ; 9 : 262- 

 265 ; II : 152-156. The Phalloids are treated by E. Fischer. 



Morgan. North American Fungi. Jour. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. 

 Hist. II : 141-149. PI. 3. 1889. 



Description of a new Phalloid. Jour. Cincinnati Soc. 



Nat. Hist. 15: 171, 172. PL 2. 1892. 



Fischer. Versuch eine systematischen Uebersicht tiber die 

 bisher bekannten Phallqiden. Jahrb. bot. Gartens zu Berlin, 4 : 

 1-92. PL I. 1886. 



Untersuchungen zur vergleichenden Entwicklungs- 



geschichte und Systematik der Phalloideen. Denkschr. Schw. 

 naturf. Gesellsch. 32 : — (1-103). PL 1-6. 1890. 



■ Neue Untersuchungen zur vergleichenden Entwicke- 



lungsgeschichte und Systematik der Phalloideen. Denkschr. 

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Thaxter. Note on Phallogaster saccatus. Bot. Gaz. 18: 117- 

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Burt. A North American Anthurus, its Structure and Develop- 

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 1894. 



The Phalloideae of the United States. I-Iir, Bot. 



Gaz. 22: 273-292. P/. II, 12; 379-391. 1896; 24: 73-92. 

 1897. 



Gerard. A new Fungus. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 7: 8-1 1. 

 PL /, 2. 1880. 



