ANTHURUS ASEROEFORMIS (Fig. 46) .Professor Mc- 

 Alpine describes the plant as follows : 



"Receptacle with hollow stem, expanding above into five arms, directed 

 upwards and outwards. Stem salmon pink, slightly darker at top, fully three 

 inches long, rugose with small depressions running more or less in lines and 

 slight ridges running crosswise, so that it looks as if divided into a series 

 of squares, about Y* inch in diameter towards the tapering base and % inch 

 at top. Arms three inches long, merging into stem and tapering to a point, 

 blood-red on inner face, convex and broken up into larger or smaller cavities, 

 on outer face there is a continuation of the color of the upper portion of the 

 stem and gradual darkening until toward the tip it is blood-red like inner 

 face with thickened, slightly raised margins and central furrow broken up into 

 small cavities. 



Fig. 47. 



ANTHURUS MUELLERIANUS. 



Fig. 48. 



ANTHURUS ARCHERI. 



"Gleba blackish with tinge of bronze green, extending along the inner sur- 

 face of each arm, but not covering the slender tip. 



"Volva somewhat cup-shaped, about as long as broad (i^ inches) dirty- 

 white, splitting at the apex, tapering towards the base and provided there with 

 turfs of elongated fibrous roots. 



"Spores hyaline, cylindrical to elongated ellipsoid, rounded at both ends, 

 sometimes vacuolated but generally homogeneous contents, 6-8 x 2^-3 mic., 

 occasionally 9 mic. long. 



"A solitary specimen growing in a garden among violets, near Melbourne, 

 Victoria, April, 1907. Forwarded by C. French, Jr. It had a very disagreeable 

 smell. Owing to its fragile nature, one of the arms fell away and only the 

 arm to the right in the photograph shows the slender tip." 



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