PHALLUS IRPICINUS (Plate 116). This is an exotic species. 

 thus far only known from Java. It has a white stipe and a white 

 veil, as has the related tropical species. Phallus indusiatus. The Javanese 

 species differs, however, from all species with veils in the relative even- 

 ness of the pileus. The pileus is not smooth, however, as might be 

 inferred from the photograph, but the surface is spongy, rugulose, and 

 the gleba permeates the depressions. Indeed, the plant has been com- 

 pared by the author to the genus Itajahya. Phallus irpicinus was 

 described by Professor Patouillarcl under the name Dictyophora irpidna. 

 and has been refound in Java and further illustrated by Penzig. We 

 are under special obligations to Professor Patouillarcl for a photograph 

 of the type specimen that is reproduced on our plate. We have a 

 suspicion, however, that it is the same plant that Berkeley mentions 

 under the name Dictyophora merulina. and of which he vaguely states 

 "the reticulations are gill-like and the ochraceous head rivulose." The 

 data, however, is not sufficiently clear to justify taking the name. Dr. 

 Ch. Bernard, of Buitenzorg, writes me that Phallus irpicinus is one of 

 the common species of Java. 



PHALLUS DUPLICATUS (Plates 117 and 118). We new- 

 come to a species that is the most striking phalloid of North America. 

 The largest species we have, furnished with a beautiful, white, long 

 veil, and most adominably fetid. It is a plant which once found will 

 never be forgotten. It is a frequent plant at Cincinnati and widely- 

 distributed in the United States, but its exact distribution we do not 

 know. It occurs in Florida, and it probably extends south to the 

 tropics, merging into Phallus indusiatus. The pileus of Phallus dupli- 

 catus is strongly reticulate, but when the plant first expands the depres- 

 sions are filled with the gleba and it appears even. The reticulations 

 of the pileus are well shown in our Fig. 3, Plate 118, which was 

 an old specimen, the gleba washed away by abundant rains. The 

 most striking feature of the plant is the long, white veil which hangs 

 from under the pileus. Unfortunately we have no large photographs 

 showing perfect veils. In our photograph, Plate 117. Fig. 1, and that 

 from Mr. Pleas, the veil is torn. In the United States there is no 

 trouble in recognizing this species, as it is the only one with such 

 a veil. 



HISTORY. This was one of Bosc's discoveries, and he gave a fairly 



good figure of it in 1811 under the name Phallus duplicatus. The veil in his 

 .figure is contracted (not open meshes), and it was probably made from an alco- 

 jholic specimen as was our similar photograph, Plate 118, Fig. 2. Professor 



Fischer includes our United States plant with the tropical species Phallus in- 

 j dusiatus under the name Dictyophora phalloidea. I am very familiar with our 

 | American plant and also (in "Samoa) with the tropical species, and they seem 

 jto me quite different, though I do not doubt that they merge into each other 

 'and are really forms of one species. After the plant had become well known in 

 i|the United States, some one sent Kalchbrenner (Hungary), as late as 1884, 



a specimen, which he immediately discovered was a new species, Hymenophallus 

 itogatus, and he gave a good figure of it. As soon as Kalchbrenner's paper 

 'appeared, Professor Farlow pointed out that it was the old, well-known species 



'of the United States. Cragin found in Kansas a specimen with an unusually 



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