mon in New Zealand and rare in Australia, and it is not confined to 

 Australasia. It occurs in Chile and is reported from South Africa 

 and a curious form (cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 296) is at the British Museum 

 from Brazil. 



CLATHRUS GRAC1LIS (Fig. 23). In general respects this 

 is very much like the preceding plant, but is much smaller and more 

 slender and the arms are only about one-fourth as thick. It is an 

 Australian species and numerous specimens are at Kew. It is not 

 known from New Zealand. Berkeley named the species in 1845 an( l 

 gave what appears to be a good figure but devoid of volva which was 

 wanting in the original specimens, as it is in our figure. 



CLATHRUS PUSILLUS (Fig. 24). This plant was sent 

 abundantly to Berkeley by Drummond, Swan River, sixty years ago. 

 There has been no other collection received in Europe. Berkeley 

 gave what seems to be a good picture of it (Fig. 24). The color is 

 bright red. The arms are slender, forming above an isometric net- 

 work, but below they are disposed in a somewhat columnar manner. 

 The type specimens are in good condition in the herbarium at Kew. 



CLATHRUS CRISPUS This is a species of thd- West Indies and South 

 America. It is included in the Handbook as Australian but I know not on what 

 ground as there are no specimens at Kew from Australia that can be so referred 

 nor any so determined. 



CLATHRUS ALBIDUS. This was described but not figured in a Swiss 

 publication about thirty years ago (from Australia). I think nothing whatever 

 is known about it. 



THE GENUS COLUS (Fig. 25). -This, is a peculiar genus of the 

 Mediterranean regions. The receptacle is clathrate, borne on columns and the 

 columns are united at the base into a stalk. There is but one species known, 

 Colus hirudinosus, which is peculiar in its habits, among the phalloids. It 

 grows only on manure. It is included in the Australian Handbook and a good 

 figure given of it (as it was copied from Tulasne) but there is no evidence 

 of any similar plant known from Australia. 



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