BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 223 



A New Phallus. 



(Plate IV.) 



Daring the month of October, last year, I found, growing in 

 a somewhat shady, grassy spot in the vicinity of Bethlehem, a 

 group of three large specimens of a Phallus having a rather un- 

 usual appearance. Owing to the perishable nature of these fungi 

 and the unsatisfactory method of preparing them for herbarium 

 specimens, I determined to retain their important characters by 

 means of a photograph. Accordingly a negative was taken of 

 an entire specimen, representing the external appearance, and, by 

 its side, a longitudinal section of another; the resulting photo- 

 graph was very satisfactory, being five-sevenths of the size of the 

 specimens. 1 In order to have the species identified I sent pho- 

 tographs with notes to our leading American mycologists, who 

 were finally unanimous in pronouncing it most nearly allied to 

 Phallus Da-monum, Rum ph., yet were doubtful whether it was 

 identical with that species. In order to arrive at a satisfactory 

 conclusion, I sent a photograph to Rev. C. Kalchbrenner, Hun- 

 gary, who, in reply, stated that the very ample trumpet-shaped 

 veil and small meshes are characters of sufficient importance to 

 distinguish it as a new species, though he also recommended fur- 

 ther careful examination of living specimens, in order more ac- 

 curately to determine the distinctive characters of the species. 

 The plants had a very disagreeable odor, equally as offensive as 

 P. impudicus, Linn., which also occurs here. The spores are 

 oval 1.5-2x3-4 mm. It differs from P. indusiatus, Schl., in hav- 

 ing smaller meshes to the veil, besides that species is said to be 

 odorless. I herewith present the diagnosis of the new species as 

 drawn up by Rev. C. Kalchbrenner: 



Phallus (Hymenophallus)togatus, Kalchbrenner, n. sp. 

 Volva crassa, subglobosa basi parumper applanata radiculis qui- 

 busdam laxe anastomosantibus aucta, superne in lobos irregulares 

 rumpens, flava. Stipes subventricoso-cylindricus, apicem versus 

 attenuatus, 5 6 poll, longus, pollicem crassus interstitiis irregu- 

 lariter sparsis lacunosus, albus. Velum tubaeforme ultra medium 

 pedunculis dependens (conicum i. e. lateribus in limbo extrorsum 

 curvatis) margine integerrimo interstitiis parvis, subrotundis, al- 

 bum. Pileo ovato-acuminato, anguste parvio, margine mem- 

 brana plicatula adpressa aucta profunde scrobiculato-reticulato, 



1 The figures of the plate are the same size as those of the photograph. 



