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powder; outer surface covered with humus held by flocculence. Spores distinctly 

 warted, 3.8-4.8/1, rarely up to 5.2/u thick. Other plants from the type collection in 

 Washington are similar with inner peridium blackish brown with a grayish powder. 

 We have a fine specimen from New Caledonia sent us by Patouillard (as G. plicalus = 

 G. biplicaius) with strongly sulcate base to the spore sac, the stalk about 4 mm. long; 

 spores spherical to a little irregular, distinctly warted, 4-6/u thick; capillitium straight, 

 up to 6.5m thick. It is probable that G. plicatus and G. triplicates are the same, as 

 Patouillard thinks, and both are certainly very near G. pectinatus. The deep and 

 regular sulcations on the base of the spore sac are a striking character that we have not 

 seen exactly duplicated in G. pectinatus. We have seen Lloyd's abundant specimens of 

 G. plicatus from Australia and South Africa, but have not seen the type. 



Illustrations: Cunningham. Trans. N. Z. Inst. 57: pi. 9, fig. 27. 1926. 

 Cunningham. Proc. Linn. Soc. N T . S. \V. 51: pi. 3, figs. 7, 8. 

 Fries, Th. C. E. Sveriges Gasteromyceter, fig. 30. 

 Lloyd. The Geastrae, figs. 19-22 (fig. 19 was first published as G. tenuipes in Myc. Notes, p. 72, 



fig. 37). 

 Lloyd. Gen. Gastromycetes, pi. 8, fig. 38. 

 Petri. I.e., fig. 37, 4-5 and fig. 40. 

 Rick. Broteria 5: pi. 1, figs. 14-15. 



Schmidel. Icon. Plant., pi. 37, figs. 11-14. Edition of 1793. These are referred to by Persoon. 

 Smith. Grevillea 2: pi. 17, fig. 1 (as G. limbatus). Ridges on mouth obscure. 



North Carolina. Salem. (Schw. Herb.) Plant as large as usual in the species; stalk short and rather 



thick. 

 South Carolina. North Island. Under cedars. Coker and party, colls. (U. N. C. Herb.). 

 New York. Jamesville. Mrs. Goodrich, coll. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



Pompey. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., as G. Bryantii.) 

 Ohio. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., from Lloyd Herb.) 

 Reported from Florida and Pennsylvania by Lloyd. 

 Ontario. Hamilton. Dearness, coll. (U. N. C. Herb.). Spores strongly warted, 4.5-6p. 



Geaster Bryantii Berk. 



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Like G. pectinatus except that around the base of the spore sac at some distance 

 from the stem there hangs a collar-like ring with an acute edge. This character alone 

 would hardly entitle the plant to more than varietal rank. 



Spores of a plant from Massee (England [?], N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.) are spherical, 

 distinctly warted, very dark, 4-5.5/1, most about 4.8/u. In another plant from Europe 

 (Rabenhorst and Winter, Fungi europaei, No. 2639, N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.) the spores 

 are smaller and less distinctly warted, 3.8-4.8^ thick. The plant is also well represented 

 in Sydow's Mycotheca germanica, No. 1449 (Path, and Myc. Herb., Washington). 



The plant is rare in America and is not reported from the southeastern states. 

 Lloyd reports it from Maine and Texas, and Morgan from New York. 



Illustrations: Berkeley. Grevillea 2: pi. 16, fig. 2. 



Bryant. An Historical Account, etc., fig. 19. 1782. 



Cunningham. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. \V. 51: pi. 3, fig. 10. 



DeToni. 1. c, pi. 1, fig. D. 



Hollos. 1. c, pi. 9, figs. 1-4. 



Lloyd. The Geastrae, figs. 23-26. 



Morgan. North Amer. Geasters, fig. 5. 



Rea. I.e., pi. 18. 



