REV. M. J. BERKELEY ON TWO NEW GENERA OF FUNGI. 151 
species of Phallus. We may, therefore, taking both the European and American species 
together, conclude, with tolerable certainty, that after all the figure of Battarra does indeed 
represent a peculiar state of the well-known species. No doubt whatever rests on the 
mind of Mr. Ravenel as to the identity of the clavate and more fusiform individuals of ' 
his plant, though, before ample materials had been collected, he had formed a different 
opinion. 
Having, as far as the materials whick have been collected permit, cleared up the very 
obscure plant of Battarra, I shall now advert more especially to that from South Carolina, 
which differs from Phallus caninus, not only in colour and a more compact texture, but 
in the important point of having the receptacle perforated. 
In Phallus caninus the cells of the head are horizontal, compact, much smaller and 
quite different from those of the stem; in the new fungus, the cells of the head differ 
little in size, and are more numerous and not arranged horizontally. Though much stress 
cannot be laid on the clavate form of certain individuals, the structure, taken in conjunc- 
tion with the perforated pileus, completely justifies the proposition of a new genus for its 
reception, unless such genera as Dictyophora, Mutinus, Dictyophallus, &c. are to be 
rejected as mere members of the genus Phallus. Indeed, though Fries does not consider 
Dictyophora, so remarkable for its beautiful reticulated veil-like appendage, as separable 
from Phallus, he has proposed a distinct genus, Mutinus (formerly Oynophallus), for the 
reception of Phallus caninus; in his“ Summa Vegetabilium Scandinaviw.' On the same 
principles our M must be generically distinct. The genus then may be characterized 
as follows :— 
Gen. CoRYNITES, Berkeley et Curtis. 
Uterus rotundatus è membranâ duplici gelatinâ distentá compositus, lobato-rumpens. Receptaculum cum 
stipite elongato celluloso-cribroso omninó continuum, obtusum, perforatum, massá sporiferá primüm 
sinuato-cellulosá tenaci, mox vero diffluente, tectum. Spore minutze. 
Fungi terrestres, oblongi, subfusiformes, autumnales. Genus à Mutino, Fries, differt receptaculo minis 
discreto, apice perforato. 
C. RAVENELI, n. sp. 
On sandy ground, in grassy places. Autumn. Santee River. Curtis, Nos. 29573,3037. Ravenel, No. 844. 
Egg globose, 3 of an inch in diameter. Volva bursting in two or three lobes closely applied to the stem. 
Stem 11-2 inches high, 4-5 lines thick, bright red, coarsely cribrose, attenuated below, above con- 
fluent with the receptacle, which is sometimes broadly clavate, sometimes conical, but always more 
or less obtuse, pervious at the apex, sometimes half as long as the stem. Mass of spores dark olive, 
soon washed off. Odour heavy and nauseous, but only perceptible when the hymenium is — 
near to the nose. 
Extreme forms are very different; some specimens approaching to the more ordinary 
form of Mutinus caninus, while others exactly resemble what is figured by Battarra. 
The second subject to which I beg leave to call the attention of the Society, is to a 
group of fungi, of which Spherocarpus capsulifer, Bulliard, is evidently the type. Though 
the description and figures are far from superficial, they appear for the most part to have 
been neglected by authors. As far as I have been able to discover, there are no notices of 
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