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Greencastle. It was first reported from the vicinity of Cincinnati by Lea 

 in 1845, ■ and afterward by JMorgan. AVe found it in 1889 near Syracuse, N . 

 Y. This makes the third station known to us. The species when fully 

 mature is unlike any other species of Hi/dnum in the stratification of the 

 spines. 



5. Cordi/ceps capitata Fr. We have found one specimen of this species 

 in rich woods at Fern. It belongs to a group of fungi that are usually para- 

 sites either on living animals like the "caterpillar fungus" of New Zea- 

 land, or on living pupte of insects like f. militaris, or on truffles like the 

 present species. This species is usually reported as growing in pine woods, 

 but we found it last year at Cambridge, Mass., growing under oaks on 

 Elap]Lomiieei< grannlatus which is the usual host on which it has been re- 

 ported from North Carolina by Curties and from New York by Peck. The 

 present specimen seems to be saprophytic, growing from a nidus of decay- 

 ing matter. It was found of course under deciduous trees. 



6. Phallus Ravcneln B. & C.t seems to be the common stink-horn of this 

 vicinity. It was originally reported from South Carolina and we found it 

 once at Cambridge, Mass. Fnder a rotten log at Fern we found its myce- 

 lial strands a ramifying network which extended ten feet or more, giving 

 rise to fifteen or twenty fruits in various stages of development. In addi- 

 tion to these fruits there were irregular swellings on the mycelial strands 

 in great abundance ; the larger ones were hollow, the smaller solid. They 

 suggest fichrotla which so far as we know have never been reported among 

 phalloids. As the specimens were collected in November, it would seem 

 that the plant was making an effort to store up nutriment in these tuber- 

 like bodies for the necessities of the following season. 



Besides PhalJm Rannelli, which is easily recognized by its rudimentary 

 veil, its thin pileus, and its mild fragrance (?), we have found two other 

 P/ia/^i in this vicinity. P. dupJIcatus we have found once. An enormous 

 specimen ten inches in height and with a large bell-like veil fully four 

 inches acroes is evidently the plant that was referred by MorganJ to P. D<r- 

 jiionum. That its odor was diabolical we can fully testify. Although Fischer 

 has combined all the indusiate forms with Pliallns dupHcatus and refers 

 then to the genus Dicti/ophora, we have certainly a distinct species in this 

 specimen ; whether it should bear the name P. Dwmormm or not is another 

 question to be settled later. 



■= loc. cit. n. 86. 



tGrevilla, II, Sn (1873). Fischer refers it to Ithyphallus. 



t.four. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, 145 (1889). 



