inal collectors found it only on manure 5 but Father Torrend advises me he does 

 not find it in such situations, but in the sand. 



LYSURUS BOREALIS. We have received a beautiful, large 

 dried specimen of this phalloid from Mr. Geo. B. Fessendeu, of Boston. 

 We present a photograph of it (Fig. 219), in order to show what can 

 be done in drying phalloids if they are carefully 

 dried. We believe everything can be learned 

 from this specimen of Mr. Fessenden's that 

 could be learned from the growing plant, par- 

 ticularly as he favors us with a memorandum 

 of its colors when fresh. Mr. Fessenden's 

 specimen convinces us pretty thoroughly of the 

 correctness of the opinion we have previously 

 taken that the species of Lysurus originally 

 from Ceylon, called Lysurus Gardneri, and 

 then from Australia, called Ant hunts austra- 

 liensis, and then from this country, called An- 

 thurus borealis, are all one and the same plant. 



MUTINUS ELEGANS. Mr. C. C. Han- 

 mer, of Connecticut, has forwarded us some 

 eggs of Mutinus elegans in a younger condition 

 than the section we showed in 

 our Plate 93. The disposition 

 of the gleba in the very young 

 egg is different from what we 

 had supposed. It is a thick 

 layer surrounding the upper 

 portion of the young stipe, 

 as shown in Fig. 220, made 

 from Mr. Hanmer's speci- 



FIQ. ma. 



Lysurus borealis (fror 

 dried specimen). 



Fig. 220. 



Fig. 221. 



men. At a later stage the stem elongates and pushes up throu 

 the gleba, as shown in Fig. 221, which was made from the egg 

 the same species in a later state. 



3 We stated in our "Phalloids of Australasia" that it "grows only on manure", which 



develops is erroneous. We had this impression from the notes of the original collec 



soleirol who stated that it differs from Clathrus cancellatus in its habitat. He found it 



Corsica originally, only "sur les bouses de vaches" and later specimens he sent were "sur 



fientes d'animaux". 



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