List of Monographs 

 Peck, with the number 

 numbers have not as yet 



Amanita, 



Armillaria, 



Bolbitius, 



Cantharellus, 



Claudopus, 



Clitocybe, 



Clitopilus, 



Collybia, 



Coprinus, 



Cortinarius, 



Crepidotus, 



Deconica. 



Eccilia, 



Entoloma, 



Flammula, 



Galera, 



Gomphidius, 



Hebeloma, 



Hygrophorus, 



Hypholoma, 



Inocybe, 



Lactarius, 



Lentinus, 



Lepiota, 



Professor Peck is exceedingly accomplished and exceptionally 

 genial, a man whom it is always a pleasure to meet. Many weeks 

 have I enjoyed in the museum of Albany in his company, and always 

 look forward with pleasure to my visit with him. No other man 

 occupies a warmer position to-day in the hearts of American mycol- 

 ogists, and all who read these lines will concur in the hope that in the 

 ripeness of intellect and the best of health, Professor Peck may be 

 with us these many years to come. 



THE UMBILICAL PLATES OF CLATHROID 

 PHALLOIDS. 



Some one, I do not remember who, but it is immaterial, has 

 proposed that phallcids should be divided into two "Natural Orders," 

 the clathroid section, where the young plants are developed from con- 

 nection with the cortex, and the phalloid section, where the plants 

 are developed from the base of the volva. In cutting open the eggs 

 of the phalloids, two types of volva are found. In the first type, the 

 true phalloid, as in the genus Phallus, etc., the interior of the volva 

 is one continuous, gelatinous mass. (Compare Fig. 131, page 294.) 

 In the second type, thin, white plates are found, dividing the gelat- 

 inous portion into sections, and extending from the cortex of the 

 volva to the young plant. These white plates are called cortical 

 plates, but a better name for them would be umbilical plates, as the 

 young phalloid is apparently developed from or through these plates 

 the same way the foetus is developed from or through the umbilical 

 cord. 



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