Report of the State Botanist. 37 



(D.) 



EXTKALIMITAL SPECIES. 



The following species of fungi, which are considered new or 

 worthy of mention, have been received from correspondents for 

 identification. They were collected outside the limits of our 

 State and are therefore noticed separately. 



Phallus Ravenelii B. & C. 



Var. minor. Plant small, 2 to 3.5 inches high, the part of the 

 veil pendant from the top of the stem about equal to the pileus 

 in length. 



Trexlertown, Pennsylvania. W. Hei^hst. 



Queletia mirabilis Fr. 



Spent oak tan bark. Trexlertown, Pennsylvania. August. 

 Herhst. So far as I know, this rare and interesting fungus has 

 not before been detected in this country. It has the appearance 

 of a large overgrown species of Tylostoma. The specimens vary 

 from two to six inches long. The peridium or head is globose, 

 and from one to two and a half inches in diameter. The stem is 

 from four to eight lines thick, and externally is very ragged, 

 shreddy and lacerated. It is easily separable from the head, to 

 which it is attached in a kind of socket as in Tylostoma. The 

 genus Queletia is especially distinguished from Tylostoma in 

 having no apical aperture to the peridium. This, when mature, 

 cracks open, either by a single long fissure or by several. The 

 description of the single known species, as given in Sylloge, 

 does not agree fully with our specimens, but these are mani- 

 festly the same specifically as a specimen collected in France 

 and communicated to us by Doctor N. Patouillard, who labeled it 

 Queletia mirabilis Fr. The dimensions of our specimens con- 

 siderably exceed those assigned to the species, the spores are 

 smaller and the color of the contents of the peridium is a dull 

 tawny or brownish-ochraceous rather than flavescent or golden 



