His figure has a .arge cup a, the ^-^T^^WSS Tn'ot'" 





yr jQ^k, >^^. from a fresh specimen 



if^^^A ^^P ^^ Samoa). It is only 



^ V 31' form ' Ot " P erha P S bet r 



stated, a condition of 



^ Geaster saccatus. As our 



photograph was made 



from a fresh plant, the 



lines are not due to the 



Fig. 145. rupture of the surface in 



few so marked. 



GE \STER EXGLERIANUS (Fig. 146 from the type). In 



the tropics Geaster saccatus take^ a 



1 A black form which has been called 



A M Geaster Englerianus. It has also been 



^, mM called Geaster maurus. 0ur illustra- 



^^^yi tion will, of course, not show the dif- 



^m ^L ference between' it and /Oeaste'r sacca- 



^^^H tus as the only difference is one of. 



^m ^^r color While the extreme, black form 



^Pfl is quite different Ijgp the red plant 



^^ ^^^Bl^^ called Geaster sacqatus, Rev. Rick. Qt 



^F ^^ Brazil, who sends both type form$, 



^T X sends also many jnternie'diate plants. 



Most of them, however, tend towards 



Fig- us. the black form. 



GE \STER VIOLACEUS. Rev. Rick has published this plant n 

 Broteria. It is of a bright, violet color, and is peculiar in being t 

 only Geaster I ever saw with a distinctive color departing from tn 

 ordinary black and reddish forms. Except as to color it corresponds to 

 small specimens of Geaster saccatus, and Rev. Rick writes 

 he notes connecting forms and doubts the validity of the spec 



