SYNONYMS. The plant was originally called Dendromyces Stevenii. I can 

 not note any distinction in the type of Battarrea Gaudichaudii f'rom Peru, Battarrea 

 Muelleri from Australia or Battarrea lacinita from California. 



SPECIMEN'S ix OUR COLLECTION. 



Russia, A. Jaczewski. 



California, L. G. Yates, L. A. Greata. 



BATTARREA LEVISPORA (Plate 75). -On comparison of the spores of 

 this plant with those of the previous forms they are found to be notably smoother, 

 and hence I consider it a good form. This, however, seems to be the only dif- 

 ference. The type specimen has a shorter stem than the form Stevenii and a 

 thicker stem than the form phalloides. It is known only by one collection from 

 India. 



BATTARREA GUICCIARDIXIAXA (Plate 74). Volva ample, 

 large, tardily breaking, furnished at the base with a kind of secondary 

 volva, an inner membrane which remains clasping the base of the plant 

 as a subglobose ball. (See Plate 74.) Upper half of the periclium 

 adnate to the volva and falling away early.f Stem with coarse, thick, 

 appressed scales. Gleba with more "slender (120x5-6) anntilated cells 

 but otherwise same character as typical Battarrea phalloides. 



HISTORY. As far as I know only a single collection of this species has 

 been made, in a garden at Florence, Italy, about 1880. described by Cesati and the 

 specimens taken to Paris for exhibition as a botanical congress" and were then 

 given to the Museum at Paris where they are now preserved.^ Since this page 

 has been in type I have received from Walter Gill, Australia, specimens undoubt- 

 edly Battarrea phalloides, which have the same "secondary volva" as shown on 

 Plate 74. We are therefore induced to doubt this character as a specific dis- 

 tinction of B. Guicciardiniana. 



BATTARREA DIGUETI (Plate 75). Periclium entirely free 

 from the volva. the upper portion remaining on the mature specimens. 

 Stem scaly, fibrillose. Gleba characters as in Battarrea phalloides. 



This plant differs from all other known species in the persistent 

 peridium. It has been collected in lower California and in Arizona 

 and was described by Miss White as Battarrea Griffithsii. ( We would 

 merely remark in passing that "Battarrea arenicola. new species," 

 described by E. B. Copeland in Annales Mycologici (1904), neither 

 from his description nor his figure has any resemblance whatever to 

 the genus Battarrea nor more to the genus Padaxon to which he sug- 

 gests it may belong.) 



i The specimen shown in our plate still retains the upper portion (which has 

 been fastened with a pin) of the peridium with a fragment of the adnate volva. 

 > trace of it remains on any of the other specimens of the collection. 



} Should our readers be inquisitive to know how it received the name 



Guicciardiniana," the explanation is that the Countess Paolina Guicciardini- 



herriston owned the garden in which she condescended to let the plant come up. 



the f US - be thankful k was not Siven her full name as a token of recognition of 



Personally we would much prefer to retain this name which is that of a 

 well-known American botanist and very appropriate for an American plant. 

 Unfortunately the "rights of priority" forbid. 



