RELATED PLANTS. 



It is a disputed question whether Phallogaster saccatus is a phalloid or not. 

 It has no volva as other phalloids have, hence is excluded by some who are 

 theorizing on such things. I do not believe that any one familiar with the 

 fresh plant will ever place it anywhere except with the phalloids. It has the 

 same greenish, fetid gleba that is associated with the phalloids, the same spores 

 and basidia, and it deliquesces in the same way. It seems to me that its relations 

 are entirely with the phalloids, notwithstanding it has no volva. 



THE GENUS PHALLOGASTER. 



Plants devoid of a volva, the gleba borne in the inner tissue. 

 Peridium white, smooth. In ripening the inner tissue and gleba deli- 

 quesce, and the latter adheres to the inner side of the peridium, which 

 breaks irregularly and exposes the adhering gleba. 



Fig. 93. 



PHALLOGASTER SACCATUS. 



rig. 94. 



PHALLOGASTER SACCATUS. 

 (After dehiscence.) 



PHALLOGASTER SACCATUS (Figs. 93 and 94). This spe- 

 cies occurs only in the United States and Canada, as far as known, 

 and it is a rare plant there. It has only been known for a few years. 

 I think there can be no trouble in identifying it from our photographs 

 Another species has been recently published, which appears 

 be rather a depauperate form. 



