LONG ON TEXAS PHALLOIDS. The best paper that has! 

 ever appeared on our American phalloids is by W. H. Long, Jr., in! 

 the May number of Kellerman's Journal. You may hunt the phalloid, 

 literature all through and you will find but three papers on local phal-i 

 loids that are of any particular credit to the authors. First, by Penzigj: 

 on the phalloids of Java; second, by Moller on the phalloids of 

 Brazil ; third, by Long on the phalloids of Texas. All three papers' 

 are finely illustrated and give full accounts of the phalloids both old\. 

 and new, and are in strong contrast to the usual mycological literature 

 devoted to the exploitation of "new species" only. 



Mr. Long finds five species in Texas, as follows, and he gives 

 excellent photographs of all of them and full accounts from his observa-'j 

 tions of the growing plants. 



PHALLUS IMPERIALIS. This is abundant in Texas, and is, as we have 

 previously pointed out, only a pink form of Phallus impudicus, and the only! 

 form we seem to have in the United States. 



PHALLUS RUBICUNDUS. Mr. Long finds this abundant, usually in lawns 

 and grassy places. He gives the first good account of it that we have in Ameri-i 

 can literature. We have already published Mr. Long's photograph (Myc. Notes,] 

 page 330, plate 116). The veils of this species, as of the preceding, are full}- 

 discussed, and he reaches the conclusion that the development of the veil in the 

 genus Phallus is a varying factor in the same species and can not be used isuc ' 

 cessfully) as a basis of subdivision of the genus into " two new genera" as mosl 

 modern authors are doing. This is fully in keeping with our own views 

 stated on page 327. 



Fig. 180. 



MUTINUS ELEGANS. Mr. Long considers this plant under the erroneou 

 name Mutinus caninus. I think he has confused Professor Hurt's paper. Mut 

 nus Ravenelii in my opinion is not the same as Mutinus caninus of Europe a 

 considered by Professor Burt, but the plant that Mr. Long calls Mutinus caninu 



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