perfect veil It, of course, became a new species. Phallus collaris. I think 

 that most of the forms that occur in the United States are very similar, but 

 Ravenel in his herbarium notes two forms, one with a veil but little longer 

 than the pileus which he calls Phallus duplicatus, the other with the ordinary, 

 long veil which he calls Phallus indusiatus (the name of the tropical species). 

 Both have strongly reticulate pilei. I do not otherwise know the form with the 

 short veil. Phallus daemonum, another name for a tropical species, has also 

 been applied to our plant. 



PHALLUS INDUSIATUS (Plate 119). This is a very frequent 

 Phallus that grows in many tropical countries, and which is very similar 

 to the plant previously considered. They are undoubtedly forms of 

 the same species, hut the tropical form differs from the temperate form 

 in the shape of the pileus, and more markedly in the nature of the 

 veil. The pileus of Phallus indusiatus is more campanulate. hroader, 

 and not so strongly reticulate as Phallus duplicatus. The veil is 

 more delicate, the threads more slender, and the meshes much larger. 

 These differences are hetter appreciated by consulting our plates. As 

 the plant grows in Samoa the veil is well shown in our Plate 119, 

 Fig. 1. Alfred M oiler figures a form (which we have reproduced, 

 Plate 119, Fig. 2) which seems to us quite distinct in its rigid veil, 

 hut Professor Moller states that in Brazil the two forms merge into 

 each other so frequently that it is not practicable to hold them as 

 distinct. We are familiar with both Phallus duplicatus and Phallus 

 indusiatus as they grow, and have found the characters of each con- 

 stant in their respective countries. No description is needed for Phallus 

 indusiatus other than our plate. The stipe is white, also the veil. In 

 one form from Java ( Phallus roseus) the veil is described as pink, 

 and the same form occurs in French Guiana. 



DISTRIBUTION. A frequent plant in probably all tropical countries. No 

 species is more abundantly represented in the museums of Europe. We have 

 seen them from Australia. India, Andaman Island. Java. Ceylon, East Africa, 

 Mauritius, Mexico, Brazil, British Guiana. French Guiana, Smith Africa. Suri- 

 nam, New Caledonia. Cuba. Tonkin. Philippines. Borneo. Jamaica, and the list 

 probably does not include one-half the countries where it occurs. There are 

 some differences in these specimens, but we do not feel it practicable to dis- 

 tinguish under separate names until more is known about them. Some have 

 spreading, bell-shaped veils, others the veil is more flaccid, cylindrical, and hanging. 

 One from St. Vincent is much smaller than usual. 



HISTORY. This striking plant known to the French (not inappropriately) 

 as "Phallus en chemise," being very common in the tropical countries, attracted 

 the attention of many travelers during the last hundred years. Many specimens 

 have been brought to Europe and placed in the hands "of various mycologists, 

 most of whom have discovered that it was a new species, and several that it 

 was a new genus. Professor Fischer in his "Untersuchungen" (1890) nmrds 

 fourteen specific names applied to it (and this excludes those referring to the 

 previous form)." Numerous changes have also been made by shuffling these 



o We have hunted up all these old specimens at Paris and l,omlon (which arf 

 the basis of most of these names) and also all the old pictures. We fully aur^e 

 Professor Fischer that there is very little difference among- them on which to 

 base species. One. however. Phallus subaeutus of Algeria, seems to us quite dis- 

 ^". t ,- . Also we believe that when the orisinal Phallus daemonum is well known 

 as a di8ttact e foS Ru 'j ed as jt a PP ears > it will be held worthy of a separate name 



at least. 



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