Perscon, I think it is quite interesting to put on record a picture of 

 his early environment. My best thanks are due to Professor Theodore 

 Fries, of Upsala, for furnishing the copy from which this illustration 

 is made. 



THE GENUS LYCOGALOPSIS. 



In my work with the puff balls I have never felt sure of the genus 

 Lycogalopsis. Specimens I have seen so referred I have always 

 thought were immature Lycoperdons. I was therefore greatly pleased 

 to receive from Dr. Chas. Bernard, Java, what I noted at once to be 

 a genus new to me, but which on investigation I find to be the genus 

 Lycogalopsis, as published by Professor Fischer. The value of this 

 genus rests for me on its peridium character. The plant grows on 

 rotting wood and develops on the surface of the wood a thick, white 

 subiculum. The little peridia are produced on this subiculum, or rather, 

 to speak more correctly, from this subiculum as the peridia are simply 

 continuations of the tissue of the subiculum. The peridia arc quite 

 thin, and rupture irregularly, and fall away in dehiscence, leaving cup- 

 shaped remains in the subiculum. as shown in Fig. 376. It is this 

 peculiar, peridial structure that gives the genus its value to me. as I 

 know no other that is similar. The interior of the puff ball shows 

 nothing very marked. There is no sterile base, and the pale olive 

 gleba, which consists mostly of a mass of spores, fills the interior. 

 The capillitium is very scanty and rudimentary. The spores are glo- 

 bose, pale, smooth, and 4-5 mic. in diameter. The surface of the 

 peridia is smooth and white. This little species came originally from 

 Java and was called Lycogalopsis Solmsii, the generic name, referring 

 to the resemblance of the peridia to those of the common Lycogala. 



SOUTH AFRICAN PHALLOIDS. 



J. Medley Wood, who has observed the plants of South Africa 

 for many years, favors me with an interesting note on the plialloicis. 

 He has noted but three species. 



Kalchbrennera corallocephala is the most frequent species. 



Phallus indusiatus is not rare, yet is not as frequent as the pre- 

 ceding. 



Lysurus Woodii is extremely rare and in more than fifty years' 

 observation Mr. Wood has met it but once. The only collection was 

 made in one place not more than three or four yards in extent. 'Mr. 

 Wood has searched for it in the same locality since, but never found 

 it again. I do not believe the whole story of South African phalloids 

 has yet been told. Not long ago I saw in one of the museums a drierl 

 specimen, recently collected by S. T. Saxton, Cape Town, and while 

 I can not tell much from such a specimen, it is surely some species 

 bcth unique and unnamed. 



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