of Corsica that was named Colus hirudinosus. The genus Colus in its 

 'original sense (see fig. 176) ~ was a clathrate plant with a clathrate 

 receptacle consisting of a network, bearing the gleba. This network 

 is supported by columns that are united at the base forming a stipe, 

 but the columns are a part of the stipe and not a portion of the re- 

 ceptacle. The genus Pseudocolus, as I conceive it, consists of columns 

 (three always as far as I know) which are the receptacle and are 

 slightly united at the top and at the base are borne on a stipe. In short, 

 Pseudocolus is a stipitate Laternea. and as I do not think Laternea 

 should be included in Clathrus, neither do I think that Pseudocolus 

 should be included in Colus. 



PSEUDOCOLUS GARCI^E (Fig. 177). Receptacle consisting 

 of three tapering columns, slightly united at the top and bearing the 

 gleba on the inner surface. These columns are borne on a distinct 

 stipe. The color is white. Other details are shown in Mr. Moller's 

 photograph better than we can tell them. This plant is known only 

 from Brazil and is said to be rare there. Rev. Rick wrote me he had 

 never found it. It is very close to Pseudocolus javanicus of Java, 

 indeed the photographs could hardly be told apart. Both look very 

 much to me like chicken's feet. Pseudocolus javanicus is a red plant 

 and the walls are "chambered" (gekammert). The Brazilian species 

 is white and the stem walls "ungekammert." 6 



MUTINUS BAMBUSINUS (Figs. 178 and 179). Alfred 

 Moller presents a photograph (Fig. 178) of this species and it will 

 be noted from the photograph that it is somewhat similar to Mutinus 

 caninus of Europe. It was originally named from Java by Zollinger, 8 

 and it will probably prove to be the most frequent, tropical Mutinus. 

 It has occurred adventitiously in the hothouses at Kew, and Cooke 

 has given a good figure of it in Grevillea. Also Fischer has given 

 a figure (which we reproduce, Fig. 179) in his account of the Java 

 phalloids. The form that grows in Brazil (Fig. 178) has a shorter 

 gleba-bearing portion than the Javanese form, and Fischer considers 

 the Brazilian plant as distinct under the name Mutinus Mulleri. Alfred 

 Moller unites them under the previous name which Fischer is not dis- 

 posed to accept. It is only a difference of opinion, such as will always 

 occur between those working on the same subject. 9 



7 This figure, which was originally by Tulasne, does not represent the plant as well as does 

 most of Tulasne's work. The clathrate portion is not relatively large enough as shown in his 

 figure. It is more like the receptacle of a Simblum. Besides it is different in its nature from 

 the arms that support it, and there is not the similarity in the receptacle and arms of the plant 

 that there is in the figure. 



I do not know the German very well but I presume that ' gekammert " stem walls con- 

 sist ot large cells, and "ungekammert " stem walls of small cells. If that is the meaning of it I 

 have never met a phalloid with " ungekammert " stem. 



At least Zollinger named something that is supposed to be that. The real meaning of 

 tne name is based on a colored figure from Java, now at Kew, that Berkeley referred to Zol- 



9 And it is unfortunate that under the present system of each author desiring to uphold 



is own species he becomes (unconsciously perhaps biased. Professor Fischer is a very liberal 



man in his views of species, bnt there is four times as much difference between Clathrus 



cibarius and Clathrus gracilis (which he unites as there is between Mutinus bambusimis and 



aus Mullen which he maintains are distinct. I have friends in mycology who impress 

 me as being extremely liberal as to others' ipecies and extremely narrow as to their own. This 

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