Johnson reports the occurrence of the plant at Cold Springs Harbor, 

 New York, in 1900, 1901 and 1902. All grew on one spot and the 

 last year only one or two specimens. 



MUTINUS RAVENELII. At the last visit I made to Professor 

 A. P. Morgan, a few weeks before his death, we had a conversation 

 about this plant. Professor Morgan was of course quite well acquainted 

 with Mutinus elegans, in fact he at one time discovered it was a "new 

 species," for Mutinus elegans is not an unusual plant in the woods in 

 the section around Cincinnati. Professor Morgan during the past 

 summer collected Mutinus Ravenelii, and he told me he was strongly 

 convinced that it was an entirely different plant from Mutinus elegans. 

 It is a smaller plant, different in shape and particularly different in 

 its habitat. The habitat of fungi, a feature usually neglected, is very 

 often one of the best characters that a species has, for most fungi have 

 this peculiarity, that they will only grow in a certain habitat. Mutinus 

 elegans always grows in woods or in soil that is rich in humus. Pro- 

 fessor Morgan found Mutinus Ravenelii growing in an old corn field 

 in clay soil. It has been cultivated for years and was particularly free 

 from any woods humus. I never collected the species but once and 

 then it was in a similar situation in a yard in one of our city lots. I 

 believe that Mutinus elegans and Mutinus Ravenelii are distinct 

 things and that habitat is one of the strong points of distinction. 



MUTINUS CANINUS. Professor Beardslee found this species 

 the past season in Maine, and he told me it was rather frequent. It 

 was very distinct from Mutinus elegans, and he readily recognized it 

 from the characters pointed out in Mycological Notes. 



RED LYSURUS. I have received reports of the occurrence of 

 red specimens of the genus Lysurus from 



Harold Murray, Manchester, England, 



Professor D. McAlpine, Melbourne, Australia, 



W. H. Long, Jr., Denton, Texas. 



None of these specimens have reached me but I expect they will all 

 prove to be a red form of Lysurus Gardneri. It is an evidence of 

 how little our phalloids have been observed that not a red Lysurus 

 has ever been recorded from either of these three countries. There 

 have been three vague records of red Lysuri, two of them from South 

 America and one from South Africa, and I suspect there would be 

 very little difference found between any of them if the truth were 

 only known. 



THE PHALLOIDS OF MAURITIUS. Mr. Charles A. O'Con- 

 nor has sent us three phalloids in alcohol from the island of Mauritius. 

 They reached us in good condition and all of them are unrecorded 

 from this island. 



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