I is the plant that Burt called Mutinus Curtisii. Professor Burt suggested (as I 

 have since fully assured myself) that it is Mutinus elegans. Mr. Long's figure 

 'is characteristic of Mutinus elegans, which is very different from Mutinus ca- 

 :ninus of Europe. 



SIMBLUM SPH^EROCEPHALUM (Fig. iSo). We are glad to give a nice 

 photograph of this plant, made by Mr. Long. The figure we gave (page 297) 

 was from an abnormal plant. It is a rare plant in Texas, though a very abundant 

 ; species of South America. Mr. Long's photograph tells the whole story except- 

 ing as to colors. The volva is white, the stipe pink and the receptacle scarlet. 

 (Sometimes white forms are found.) 



Fig. 181 



SIMBLUM TEXENSE (Fig. 181 from photographs from Mr. Long). From 

 he photograph one might think this is the same plant as the preceding, but it 

 s quite different not only in its color but in other respects. The color of the 

 sntire plant is pale yellow. Mr. Long points out a number of characters in which 

 his species seems to differ from other phalloids. "When fresh the gleba and 

 nttre plant has a very pronounced and pleasant amyl acetate odor."* " When 

 t does deliquesce it has the odor of carrion." Another peculiar character is the 

 >road, ovate spores. Mr. Long's complete and full account of Simblum Texense 

 ully refutes Atkinson's story of it being a "new genus" Dictybole. The only 

 >oint that Mr. Long does not cover is what difference (if any) exists between 

 t and Simblum gracile of Ceylon, and I think nobody knows that. 



If we really knew the truth about phalloids, I presume this feature would,not be as ex- 



,eptional as Mr. Long thinks. The fetid odor that seems to be a strong character of all phal- 



ms is only developed when the gleba deliquesces. I was unable to detect any odor to Phallus 



ipudicus in France after the plant had fully developed but before the gleba had deliquesced 



; erhaps had my olfactory nerves been in good working order 1 might have noted " the odor of 



iioiets as I think did the English author who called it "Phallus iostnos" on that account 



ernaps this is a better explanation of "Phallus iosmos" than that given in Myc. Notes p 328' 



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