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first mention and gives the first drawing of this plant, has been in- 

 accessible, but as early as 1785 Dickson* described Lycopcrdon 

 phalloidcs — " volvulatum stipilatum, pileo deflexo campanulato ; 

 supra pulverulento calyptrato, infra glabro libero " — which unques- 

 tionably was the original Battarrca. It was collected in Septem- 

 ber by D. Humphreys and T. Woodward at Norwich, Norfolk and 

 Bungay, Suffolk, England. In 1801, Persoon established the genus, 

 and named and figured one species, B. phalloidcs, which he de- 

 scribes as follows — " volulata stipitata, Pileus deflexus, campanu- 

 latus,villosus, puluerisstrato obsitus, a voluacalyptratus." In 18 14 

 Liboschitz f made the next mention, when he described a plant 

 which he named Dcndromyces Stevenii, from the river Volga, which 

 Fries in 1839 referred to Battarrea. De Toni % gives eight species, 

 and Fischer § mentions seven of these, while quite lately, in 1 899, 

 Spegazzini || described two new species from Argentina, making 

 the number of described species ten in all. 



The first Battarrea reported in this country was B. phalloidcs '^'^ 

 in 1873, said to have been collected by J. Torrey in the vicinity of 

 San Francisco, Cal., but strangely enough, though this is the well- 

 known European species, it has never since been found, to my 

 knowledge, in the United States. Owing to the lack of description 

 of the plant mentioned there is a question as to whether this plant 

 really belongs to the species indicated. The only other species so 

 far known in this country are B. attcnuata from Nevada, described 

 by Professor C. H. Peck ft in 1895, and B. Digucti, described in 

 the following year by M. Patouillard ^;J from Lower California. 

 Lastly some material has been sent to Professor L. M. Under- 

 wood from New Mexico and Arizona which proves to belong to 

 two undescribed species. 



A list of the hitherto known species with their localities is 

 added : 



* Plant. Crypt. Brit, i : 24. 1785. 



f Beschreibuni^ eines neuendeckten Pilzes. 1S14. 



J Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 7 : 65 ; 9: 270 ; 14: 260. 



\ Engler & Prantl, Die nat. Pflanzenfam. i*** : 344. 1900. 



II An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 6 : 190, 191. 1899. 



** Grevillea 2 : 35. 1873. 



ft Bull. Torr. Club, 22 : 208. 1895. 



JJJour. de Bot. 10: 251.7: 2. 1886. 



