MYCOLOGICAL NOTES. 



BY C. G. LLOYD. 



No. 30. 



CINCINNATI, O. FEBRUARY, 1908. 



CONCERNING THE PHALLOIDS. 



PHALLUS IRPICINUS (Plate 116, Fig. 4 and Fig. 211). We 

 have received a specimen of this plant in alcohol from Dr. Chas. 

 Bernard, Buitenzorg, Java. It is a common plant in Java, but not 



known from other regions. We 

 are quite well satisfied now that 

 it is the same plant that Berkeley 

 called Phallus merulinus. 1 In gen- 

 eral appearance Phallus irpicinus 

 conforms to others of the section 

 of the genus Phallus with veils, 

 but no other species is known 

 with the same pileate structure. 

 The external surface of the pileus 

 (see fig. 211, which is an enlarge- 

 ment six diameters), is convo- 

 luted, and the gleba covers the 

 interspaces between these folds. 2 

 This structure is somewhat simi- 

 lar to that of the genus Itajahya, 

 and both might, with good reason 

 be classed together as a genus, or 

 put as a section of Phallus. The best account of Phallus irpicinus 

 has been given by Penzig in his article on the Javanese phalloids. 



CLATHRUS TRKUBII (Fig. 212). Dr. Charles Bernard, Buit- 

 ienzorg, Java, favors us with an alcoholic specimen of his recently 

 named species, and also a photograph of an unusually large speci- 

 men (which is reduced one-third). We have already given a figure 



Fig. 211. 

 Pileus surface of Phallus irpicinus x 6. 



' No specimen of Berkeley's exists, and he never formally " described " it, so I presume 

 he will have to lose the name and the advertisement in connection with it. There is, how- 

 ever, no doubt about the truth. First.it is a common plant in Java, where Berkeley's speci- 

 men came from, and second, the phalloids of Java are well known, and no other species occurs 

 'there which conforms to his remarks, " the reticulations of the pileus are gill-like and och- 

 iraceous head rivulose. It occurs at all seasons, and appears to be the most frequent." It is 

 'certain that Phallus merulinus is not a synonym or Phallus indusiatus, as stated by Fischer. 

 [Berkeley's name is a much better name than Phallus irpicimis, and for that reason might be 

 jtaken, though not fully, in keeping with the latest rules. 



2 This is very much the same hymenium nature as the genus Merulius, and Berkeley's 

 name, therefore, was not inapt. I can see no resemblance to the genus "Irpex," and consider 

 'the name very badly chosen. 



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