THE VEIL OF CLAUTRIAVIA MERULINA. 



Professor T. Fetch, who has done such good work with the phal- 

 loids of Ceylon, sends me an interesting photograph (Fig. 268) 

 showing the attachment of the veil of Clautriavia merulina. This, I 

 think, was previously 

 unknown. As will be 

 noted from the photo- 

 graph, it is confluent 

 with the upper portion 

 of the stipe in a man- 

 ner not found (or, at 

 least, not known) in 

 any species of Phallus. 



It will perhaps not 

 be out of place here to 

 call attention of ob- 

 servers throughout the 

 tropical world to the 

 aid that can be ren- 

 dered science by pho- 

 tographing the p h a 1- 

 1 o i d s they note. Es- 

 pecially if the phalloid 

 seems to present any 

 points of novelty from 

 those shown in our 

 photograph in the re- 

 cent pamphlet, "Syn- 

 opsis of the Known 

 Phalloids." A good 

 photograph is the best 

 record one can make of 

 a phalloid, and if ac- 

 companied with a color 

 sketch is all that is nec- 

 essary to give a good 

 account of it. A dried 

 specimen of the phal- 

 loid, if large, or an al- 

 coholic specimen in a 

 little tube, if s m a 1 1, 

 should also be pre- 

 served. But a good 



photograph is the eS- 



sential. It is not in 

 good taste to complain of the many inaccurate figures and accounts 

 that we have in our phalloid literature, for the collectors in former 

 days probably did the best they could. In these days of universal 



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Flo. 2bts 



Section of Clautriavia merulina (pileus removed) showing 

 attachment of the veil. 



