6 THE GASTEROMYCETES OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA 



North Carolina. Smith's Island. In a sandy road, December 29, 1921. Couch and Grant, colls. 

 (U. N. C. Herb., No. 4949). 

 Fayetteville. Lawrence, coll. Reported by Farlow (Bot. Gaz. 15: 45. 1890). 

 South Carolina. Georgetown. In sandy soil near Silver Hill Farm, Dec. 29, 1922. Coker, coll. 

 (U. N. C. Herb., No. 6013). 

 Santee Canal. Ravenel, coll. (Curtis Herb.). 



Also from South Carolina by Ravenel in Fungi Car. Exs. No. 70 (N. Y. B. G. Herb, and Phil. 

 Acad. Herb.). 

 Florida. Eustis and Orange Bend. Underwood, coll. (N. Y. B. G. Herb.). 

 Mississippi. Trice, coll. (Curtis Herb.). 



Louisiana. St. Martinsville. Langlois, coll. (N. Y. B. G. Herb.). 

 Porto Rico. Cook, coll. (U. S. Nat'l. Herb.). 



Clathrus cancellatus Linn. 

 C. ruber Mich. 

 C. albits Mich. 

 C . flavescens Mich. 

 C. volvaceus Bull. 



This beautiful species has been reported in the United States only from Georgia 

 (Schweinitz; Syn. Fung. Car. Sup., No. 537, as C. ruber) and Florida (Lloyd; Myc. 

 Notes, p. 296; Syn. Known Phalloids, p. 54) and New York (Peck; Bull. Torr. Bot. 

 Club 7 : 29. 1880). The last reference is in some doubt and may refer to C. columnatus, 

 as suggested by Lloyd (Myc. Notes, p. 150). It differs from C. columnatus in the more 

 globular receptaculum in the form of an open net-work. The color is red above, paler 

 below; base surrounded by the conspicuous white volva with a central cord-like root. 

 The dark, slimy, ill-smelling gleba containing the smooth, elongated spores is said to 

 cover the entire inner surface of the thick, spongy elements of the net-work. 



Illustrations: Barla. Champ. Nice, pi. 45, figs. 5-12. 

 Bulliard. Champ. Fr., pi. 441. 



Fischer. Pflanzenfamilien l 1 : fig. 129 A. Copied by Lloyd on pi. 92, fig. 7. 

 Lloyd. Myc. Notes, p. 326, fig. 160; Syn. Known Phalloids, fig. 70; also pi. 92, fig. 7, and pi. 112. 

 Micheli. Nova Plant. Gen., pi. 93 (as C. ruber). 

 Nees von Esenbeck. Syst. Pilze Schw., pi. 36b, fig. 261 (as C. ruber). 1817. 



Jamaica. Howe, coll. (N. Y. B. G. Herb.). 



Bahamas. Acklin's Island. Brace, coll. (N. Y. B. G. Herb.). 



Porto Rico. Britton and Wheeler, colls. (N. Y. B. G. Herb.). 



COLUS Cav. & Sech. 



Fruiting bodies with a distinct hollow stalk which is seated in a smooth volva, the 

 wall with or without chambers, dividing above into several elongated arms which are 

 united at their tips and simple, or capped by a group of meshes like those of Simblum. 

 Gleba borne within the arms or meshes, deliquescing into a dark slime. 



The original species (C. hirudinosus) and one other (C. Mulleri) are the only ones 

 with a netted apex, the others have simple arms which taper up and are united at their 

 tips only. Lloyd has separated the latter group as the genus Pseudocolus (Synopsis 

 of the Known Phalloids, p. 51). Through C. Mulleri the genus approaches Clathrella. 

 The species given below is the only one ever found in the northern hemisphere and is 

 known only from the type locality. 



For literature see Fischer, Lloyd and Penzig as cited under the family. 



