Mycological Bulletin 



No. 87 



ir. .1. Ki-llcniuiii. I'll. I).. Ohio Stale i'liiz'crsily 

 ('(iluiiibiifi, Mdrch. I<:nx 



LIBRARY 



NEW YORK 



BOTANICAL 



QAKUEN. 



i:V WAV ol- EXI'LAXATK )X 



We are indebted as^ain to Mr. ( i. IJ. Smith Un- an account 

 and a ])icture of a very interesting thinij. When you first find it 

 in some shady place you will be puzzled to know whether it is 

 phalloid, a i)uff-ball. or ■■eg;g'" of something' else, hut it will jjrove 

 to be a Phalloj^aster. 



h'or the mtishroom literature to report in this numljer we 

 liave decided to select Professor L5eardslee"s interestin;^' comments 

 (jn the Lepiotas of Sweden as compared with related forms in 

 America, an article that was ])ublished last year in the journal of 

 Alvcology. The mushrooms for the most part are cosmopolitan 

 and studies of material in Europe is therefore apropos. — espe- 

 cially interesting' if in the classic "round where Fries, the first 

 •i'reat mvcologist, collected and studied the species. 



The note from the ^'outh"s L'om])anion touching" a iu\-colog- 

 ical bureau, will he read with interest. 



IMlALlJ XIASTER SACCATL'S 



O. I). S.M nil. A KROX. OHIO. 



Tlii^ ])lant is rare in the L'nited States. When \ouug it 



'■oiiK'what resembles a tuber or a pear. 



When ! first met it. I took it at once to be a Phalloid. and its 



general aj^jjearance suggested to me the name of "Phallus tube- 



njsa. but u])on investigation, I found it had {previously l)een given 



its present name, as ])rinte(l above. 



There has been some doubt about Phallogaster saccatus 



being a ])halloid, but a close examination will show the same 



g^recnish gieba which, upon decay, gives forth an odor that can 



not be sur])assed by any of the ])lialloids. 

 5^ It also has the same spores and the same basidia and 



J5 deliquesces in the same way. The center is white and somewhat 

 _ translucent. 



Ni When it ripens, this whole central mass deliquesces and dis- 



;j- appears, while the gleba also delic|uesces. but clings to the inner 



