known as "Phallus Ravcnelii, Berkeley." If we believed in this system of adver- 

 tising we would advocate the justice, in a case like this, of calling the plant 

 "Phallus Ravenelii, Peck." Professor Fischer calls the plant Ithyphallus Rave- 

 nelii and Professor Burt, Dictyophora Ravenelii. further proof to my mind of 

 the inutility of both these generic names. Professor Patouillard is said to have 

 named it Ithyphallus cucullatus. 



PHALLUS RUHICUXDUS (Plate 116). This is the red species 

 of Phallus of our southern states. \Ye are pleased, through the courtesy 

 of W. H. Long. Jr.. to give photographs of it. for it is a species very 

 little known in recent works. That both Curtis and Ravenel were 

 familiar with a Phallus with a red stem is evident from their notes 

 and specimens, the latter now so old and discolored that little can be 

 told about them. Xo veil is found under the pilens of this species as 

 in the previous, but a fragment of the rudimentary veil shows in one 

 of the photographs. The strong character of this plant is the even 

 pileus and the red stem, and we suspect also that it has a red pilots. 

 We have found no notes from any one who has observed the plant 

 when fresh as to the color of the pileus. but the dried specimens that 

 Mr. Long sent me (now several years old) has a decidedly reddish cast. 

 Observations on this point are especially desired from those who have 

 an opportunity to observe the fresh plant. Phallus rubicundus is known 

 only to occur in our southern states, not as far north as Cincinnati. 

 Ravenel and Curtis found it in North and South Carolina, and Mr. Long 

 has recently collected it in Texas. 



HISTORY. Mention was first made of this species by Hose 7 under the 

 name Satyrus s rubicundus. from specimens that he collected in the Carolinas. 

 Fries changed it to Phallus rubicundus, and Fischer to Ithyphallus rubicundus. 

 It is to me a dubious question whether Phallus rubicundus is different from the 

 plant Montague called Phallus aurantiacus, which has a red stem and a red 

 pileus, and which while originally from India, has been recorded from several 

 warm countries. Mr. Long's specimens are mose obese, and I can not be sure 

 that the pileus is red, as are specimens of Phallus aurantiacus I have from 

 Hawaii. I have seen also a drawing of Phallus auranticus, made in Tonkin, 

 from fresh specimens and submitted to me by Professor Patouillard. It is more 

 slender and has a differently shaped pileus from the photograph of Mr. Long,,, 

 I can not note much difference, however, as to form of the /v/v specimens of 

 Phallus aurantiacus and Mr. I^ong's photograph. It is certainly very clo>r. and 

 it is a suspicious fact that our red Phallus grows only in our southern states,I 

 and that the red species of other countries are only recorded from warm countries. 

 Nor can I see any material difference in the description or figure of Phallus 

 sanguineus, recently described as Ithyphallus sanguineus from Kamerun. Africa. 

 As our "priorist" friends would state, however, whether they are the same or} 

 different. Phallus rubicundus is "prior." 



Bnso made a trip through our southern states about the first of the last 

 century. He published an article in French in a German periodical in 1811 con- 

 cerning several fungi which he collected. He gave plates that were well enough 

 that all of his phalloids can be readily recognized, and all now b.-ar his 



writes as the Latin name (inadvertently t think) Satyrus rublcundua instead 

 fu h rther S memion d oMt. He *"* "" *** nos ** " f '"" *""* "Satyrus" nor ma. 



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