We thank Professor Van Bambeke for this additional information, 

 as the Oudeman reference had been overlooked by us. 



Phallus impudicus is common in Holland, and Mutinus caninus 

 is a rare plant. 



BRASILISCHE PILZBLUMEX, BY ALFRED MOLLER. 

 As a good example of how work in mycology should be done we- cite 

 the above work. The leading feature of Mr. Holler's \vork is his 

 excellent, photographic illustrations. The result is something definite, 

 something in which mycologists have confidence. The usual "descrip- 

 tion" of a phalloid is just so much waste of printed matter. As an 

 illustration, Alfred Moller has proposed from South America a number 

 of "new species" of phalloids, and has illustrated each with fine photo- 

 graphs which he supplements with detailed drawings. Spegazzini has 

 proposed perhaps more from South America, but his work has been 

 mostly vague, verbose descriptions ( in Pidgin Latin, according to the 

 latest rules). When Professor Ed Fischer makes a systematic account 

 of the subject, he recognizes every single one of Moller's species, and 

 every single one of Spegazzini's he places in the "Ungenugend bekannte 

 Arten." Even the new genus which Spegazzini proposes and illustrates 

 with a drawing, Fischer questions if it were not based on a specimen 

 with an accidental fragment of the volva. If Spegazzini found a plant 

 having the structure that he claims in the genus Alboffiella. and had 

 shown a photographic section. Professor Fischer could not have ques- 

 tioned it. There are pictures in the phalloid history that are known 

 to be "fakes" and investigators in mycology are beginning to be a 

 little suspicious of manufactured pictures produced for the purpose of 

 bolstering up "new species" or "new genera." 



We present herewith a reproduction of all of Alfred Moller's 

 species that have not previously been published in our work. All of 

 them are from Brazil. 



CLATHRUS CHRYSOMYCELIXUS (Fig. 174). Receptacle 

 white, with large, polygonal meshes, those below somewhat lengthened. 

 The receptacle arms are united at the base into a short stipe, 5 Mycelium 

 bright, golden yellow (hence the specific name). This plant is only 

 known from Brazil. 



PHALLUS GLUTINOLEXS (Fig. 175). Xo description is 

 necessary other than Mr. Moller's photograph (Fig. 175). It has a 

 white stipe and no evident veil. The pileus is smooth and differs from 

 all other phalloids in its globose shape. It is certainly a unique species, 

 and is known only from Brazil. 



THE GENUS PSEUDOCOLUS.Far be it from me to go out 

 of my road to propose new genera for plants that already have names. 

 but I can not see any resemblance between the plant from South 

 America that has been called Coins Garcia; and the original species 



favorabiy nCeitbel0ngStoFischer ' 8genus cla ""-<. genus that does not impress me very 



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