10 FETCH : 



Further examples of the small form noted on jDage 150, and 

 figured on PL XI. of my previous paper, have been obtained. 

 Tiie pileus appears to be always yellow, while the net is white 

 or pale salmon. I am inchned to consider this a distinct species, 

 characterized by the peculiar reticulation of the pileus. 



Abnormalities in Dictyophora phallouha are not very 

 common, and such as do occur are usually irregularities in the 

 form of the net. In a specimen, total height 20 cms. , the stallc 

 was vertical for a heiglxt of 14 cms., but tlie ujiperpart, 6 cms, 

 long, was bent over at an angle of 45°. Tiie upper side of the 

 inchned ijortion of tlie stalk was covered with a reticulation 

 of open chambers, eight millimetres deep at the lower end 

 and diminishing gradually to the usual tliin bars beneath 

 the cap. The net was attached to the whole inclined part 

 of the stalk along the edges of this reticulation ; or, in 

 other words, the reticulation of chambers confluent with the 

 stalk represented the part of the net which should have merely 

 rested in contact with it. 



Clathrus crispatus Thw. 



I have not yet succeeded in obtaining a photograph of an 

 expanded example of this species. It grows only in the higher 

 districts, above 4,000 feet, and apparently is rare even there. 

 Two specimens Jiave been sent to me, but tliey were in frag- 

 ments when found. The " eggs " were about five centimetres 

 in diameter, and had the same structure as tliat previously 

 pliotograpl)ed (Ann. Perad. IV., PI. XIII. B). As Thwaites's 

 specimens were similar, this is evidently a constant cliaracter 

 wliich (apparently) distinguislies Clathrus crispntus from otiier 

 species. 



Externally the net is pale pink. It becomes deeper pink 

 along the sides of the arms, and deep crim.son along the inner 

 median line. The arms are up to 2 cms. in breadth, and 1 cm. 

 thick in the middle ; the meshes (openings) are conssquently 

 small, rounded, (»r slightly jml^'^gonal. 1-2 to 2*2 cms. in 

 diameter. In cross section, the arms are truncate-triangular, 

 i.e., the section has the shape of an iso.sceles triangle with the 

 apex cut off, the base of the triangle l)eing outermost. The 

 inner si<l«. is fl^l or slighllv rounded, and covered with a 



