found several years ago at the Brighton Stock Yards were many of 

 them fully as 'stocky' as Mr. Rea's. I found a few fully an inch in 

 diameter and six or seven inches in length. I thought at the time they 

 were an introduced species here, but they have been found in several 

 localities since, all of the small variety. I found them several years 

 ago at Holbrook growing in a tomato field. 



C. C. Hanmer writes me that he has found it, at East Hartford, 

 Conn., "all small specimens in a newly stocked lawn. It appeared in 

 July and August, 1903." 



Mr. Hanmer also writes that "E. A. White of Storrs, Conn., 

 collected it there during the summer of 1904 in a potato field." 



Geo. E. Morris, Waltham, Mass., writes. "Dr. Oscar E. Fischer, 

 now president of the Detroit Myc. Club, found a single specimen near 

 a heap of stable refuse in Allston, Mass.. in the fall of 1898 or about 

 that date." "In November, 1900, the fungus came up in a tomato 

 patch in \Yaltham, of course, long after the 

 crop was gathered. It was abundant and 

 was probably introduced in fertilizers." 



It will be noticed that the stations given 

 above are mostly Eastern and that the plant 

 only occurs in locations tending to the con- 

 clusion that it is an introduced plant. 



WANTED STATIONS AND PHOTO- 

 GRAPH OF SIMBLUM RUBESCENS. 



Thi> plant was originally collected on 

 Long Island and I think like . \nthurus 

 boreal is is of relatively rare occurrence. 

 Rev. |. M. 1 Sates finds it in Nebraska and 

 has sent us a dried specimen. There is a 

 record somewhere of its collection in Kan-n< 

 by E. 1C. Bartholomew. \V. H. Scudder 

 gathered it at Washington, I). C. (cfr. Myc. 

 Notes, ]>. 14o). Charles Mcllvaine writes 

 us that he found a single specimen in Talbot 

 Co., Maryland. It would be a special favor 

 if some one will ha\e a good photograph of 

 the plant made for us. \\ c would like to 

 use it in the plates that we hope some day 

 to present of the American phalloids. The 

 original cut which we reproduce herewith 

 (fig.85) appears to be a good representa- 

 tion of the plant but we are partial to photo- 

 graphic reproductions. 



If you know any facts as to its occur- 

 rence and localities, kindly favor us with 

 the details. 



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