These are generally prolonged into long, slender points. The color 

 of most species is bright red, and they are among the most showy 

 phalloids. The genus is at home in Australia, where many forms 

 occur. It also grows in Java and the East. No species is known from 

 America or Europe, and it is vaguely known from Africa. 12 The species 







Tig. 50. 



ASEROE RUBRA. 



all are very similar and have been reduced to two by Professor Fischer. 

 However, the figures that are supposed to represent them seem so dif- 

 ferent that we would prefer to consider them distinct, at least until 

 more is known about them. We believe, however, that there are three 

 distinct species under which the forms should be arranged : Aseroe 

 rubra, which includes the Australian forms and has a narrow limb; 

 Aseroe Zeylandica, to which all the East Indian forms should be re- 

 ferred, and which has a broad limb ; Aseroe arachnoidea, which is quite 

 distinct from both the others. 



12 At Berlin there is a very imperfect dried specimen of Aseroe from Africa!! 

 so poor that I would not wish to even venture on its form, but the occurrence of the 

 in Africa is not recorded, I think, and is of interest. 



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It is 

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