( ALOSTOMATACKAK 191 



This is an elegant species and easily distinguished by the long stalk, light yellow 

 color throughout except the red teeth, fluted collar, and round spores. The surface 

 layer of the exoperidium is intermediate between that of the other two species, as it is 

 quite obviously gelatinous but thin, and does not form a thick, clear, slimy jelly as in C. 

 cintubarino. 



Schweinitz's material labelled Milremyces lutescens consists apparently of two 

 species. There are two lots of two plants. The upper two with long stems are fused 

 and the spore sacs are largely broken off, with no spores to be found. These, so far 

 as they go, look just like if. lutescens. The other two consist of a smaller plant with the 

 top nearly gone and the upper part of another with perfect sac and spores. This looks 

 just like Rd'.rnclii, with warts on the surface of the sac, and, according to Lloyd (Myc. 

 Xotes, p. 395), with elliptic spores. We are glad to say, however, that the part of 

 Schweinitz's plants taken by Michener and now in his herbarium in Washington is 

 C. lutescens as generally accepted and agree with the description, the spores being 

 spherical, pitted, 6.5-8.2/x thick. The round spores and yellow spore sac and spores 

 of the description (Syn. Fung. Car. Sup. No. 345) indicate clearly the species as now 

 generally accepted. Schweinitz's figures do not show the fluted collar which is one of 

 the most marked characters of this species (though not always conspicuous) and they 

 may really represent C. Ravenclii. 



Atkinson reported this species from Blowing Rock (this Journal 9: 85. 1892), 

 but later said that his plant was C. cinnabarina (Mushrooms, p. 213). 



Illustrations: Burnap. Bot. Gaz. 23: pi. 19, figs. 1, 2. 1897. 

 Corda. Anleitung, pi. D, fig. 41. 

 Lloyd. Myc. Works, pi. 9, figs. 1-3. 

 Marshall. Mushroom Book, pi. opposite p. 132. 

 Schweinitz. Syn. Fung. Car. Sup., pi. 1, figs. 1-6. 



1935. In mixed woods, Oct. 25, 1915. 



1995. Under oaks south of campus, Nov. 23, 1915. 



Asheville. Beardslee. 



Pink Bed Valley. Murrill and House, colls. (N. Y. B. G. Herb.). 



Alabama. Moulton. Peters, coll. (Curtis Herb., as Milremyces). Spores spherical. 



Auburn. Underwood, coll. (N. Y. B. G. Herb.). 



Mobile. Mohr, coll. (U. S. Nat'l. Herb., as Milremyces). 

 West Virginia. A. H. Curtis, coll. (Curtis Herb., as Milremyces). 



Calostoma Ravenelii (Berk.) Massee 



Plates 104 and 123 



Rooting stem 2-5 cm. long, stout, rather compact, consisting of an interwoven 

 mass of thick, gelatinous fibers of a soaked clay color; exoperidium light clay or straw 

 color, not gelatinous at any stage, not obviously two-layered, surface spongy or fibrous 

 looking, less than 1 mm. thick; on exposure breaking up into small pieces except for a 

 larger, fluted, apical part which lifts up and falls away, the laiger particles on the sides 

 also falling away usually, but some of the smaller ones remaining attached to the 

 peridium for a long time until slowly worn away. In addition to these fragments 

 which are the full thickness of the exoperidium, the endoperidium is covered with much 

 thinner and smaller scales which are parts of the inner layer of the exoperidium from 

 which the outer part has broken away. These scales are very persistent and are found 



