HISTORY. The original illustration was somewhat inaccurate, showing a 

 beaked mouth that the plant does not have, as is evidenced by the original 

 specimens. Geaster lignicola (Linn. Jour, 18-386) and Geaster papyraceus 

 (Proc. Am. Acad., 4-124) appear to me to be the same plant, though the latter 

 does have a thinner exoperidium than the normal form. Geaster mirabilis 

 was determined by Spegazzini and distributed by Balansa as Geaster saccatus. 

 De Toni based on this misdetermination Geaster Spegazzinianus var. minor 

 (Sacc. 7-87). 



FORMS. GEASTER SUBICULOSUS (Plate 100). This is for me 

 only a larger form of the plant. Excepting size, I can note no other difference. 

 It was named from Australia, but reaches me also from India and Florida. The 

 type form of Geaster mirabilis is iglobose when young, but I noticed in Samoa 

 that they become oval in drying. They undoubtedly vary as to form, for one 

 collection has reached Europe that was called "var. stipitatus." The large form 

 (Geaster subiculosus) is inclined to the same elongated shape (see our plate). 



GEASTER (SP.) (Figs. 147 and 

 148, the latter enlarged four timesV 

 Is really a form of Geaster mirabilis, 

 but the exoperidium is strongly strigose, 

 and the only geaster known that has this 

 character. As I have sent a photograph 

 of the plant to Rev. Rick and advised 

 him that it is unnamed, I presume it 

 has before this been christened. It is, 

 I think, the plant Rev. Rick list- as 

 Geaster lignicola (Brot. 1906), but 

 Geaster lignicola is only a synonym 

 for Geaster mirabilis, and does not have 

 this strigose exoperidium. (Note In 

 letter since received, Rev. Rick names 

 it Geaster trichifer.) 



Fig. 148. 



Fiq. 149. 



Fig 147. 



GEASTER STIPITATUS (Fur. M<)K 

 While we have not seen the original specimens 

 from Java, it appears to have been well illus- 

 trated. It is a large plant, 3 to 4 cm. high, and = 

 developed from a mycelial subiculum at the base. 

 It differs from all other Geasters known in3 

 being decidedly stalked. Our figure (14(11 is 

 from unopened specimens from Brazil that were 

 called Geaster Juruensis. While there is a vast! 

 difference between Geaster stipitatus and Geas- 

 ter mirabilis, it is only a difference of size and 

 an intermediate form (Geaster subiculosu^ i is 

 known. No doubt many connecting forms ocl 

 cur that are not known. 



