seems to me the same form as Endlicher's plant. Judging from the 

 specimens that have reached Europe, this form with the long, narrow 

 rays is the most frequent form in Australia. 



ASEROE MUELLERIANA (Fig. 18). Kalchbrenner illus- 

 trated under the name Aseroe rubra a form with a broad limb. 

 Fischer first changed it to Aseroe rubra var. Muelleriana, and after- 

 wards referred it to Aseroe Junghuhnii of Java. The latter, accord- 

 ing to the figures and description is a much larger and quite differ- 

 ently shaped plant. I have seen no specimen corresponding to Kalch- 

 brenner's figure. 



ASEROE HOOKERI (Fig. 19). A very small form with very 

 narrow rays reached Hooker from Dr. Sinclair, New Zealand. Berk- 

 eley called it at first Aseroe viridis under the impression that when 

 fresh its color was greenish. Afterward when he became convinced 

 that he had been mistaken as to its color he re-named it Aseroe 

 Hookeri. 9 It is the smallest form described and appears quite dif- 

 ferent from the other forms usually received from Australia. 



ASEROE LYSUROIDES. Corda bases a figure on a specimen which he 

 saw in Delessert's herbarium 10 and called it Lysurus aseroeformis, which 

 Fischer changed to Aseroe lysuroides. 11 I am so well satissfied that Corda's 

 figure, young, (with gleba surrounding the arms) is not the same as his 

 expanded figure (surely an Aseroe) that I reproduce neither. The plant is 

 shown as having a very long, slender stem and short, broad rays. 



THE GENUS LATERNEA. -This genus has columns, usually 

 three to five, which are united at the top. It is a common genus in 

 Southern United States, West Indies and South America, but its oc- 

 currence in Australia is not assured. In the Handbook (and most 

 recent books) the genus Laternea is united to Clathrus, but for me 

 there exist no more distinct genera among the phalloids. 



LATERNEA COLUMN ATA (Fig. 20). The record of this 

 genus in Australia is based on a specimen from T. Kirk to Cooke 

 and determined as Laternea triscapa. If it is a Laternea it is much 

 too obese to be L. triscapa and is probably Laternea columnata. The 

 specimen is so broken and twisted and imperfect that I am not at all 

 sure even that it belongs to the genus Laternea. 



THE GENUS PSEUDOCOLUS. This genus as I conceive it 

 can be described in a few words as being a Laternea on a stalk. It 



9 I am informed by Professor McGinty that this was absolutely contrary to the rules. If 

 Berkeley called the plant "green," it must be "green," and neither Berkeley nor any one else, "ac- 

 cording to the rules," can change its name. In nomenclature "rules" seem to be much more impor- 

 tant than facts. 



10 Now at Geneva. I did not look up the specimen when I was there. 



11 It becomes now "Aseroe aseroeformis, McGinty," according to his "rules. 



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