PHOTOGRAPH OF ASEROE RUBRA. 



At the time we issued our phalloid pamphlet, we knew of no photograph of 

 Aseroe rubra and reproduced the original drawing, which was made about one 

 hundred years ago and was very crude. We were pleased to receive from Mr. A. S. 

 Hamilton, Rockwood, Australia, an excellent photograph of Aseroe rubra, natural 

 size, which we reproduce above. 



The phalloids of the world will never be really known until all of them have 

 been illustrated with characteristic photographs, and our thanks are especially- 

 due to Mr. Hamilton. The photographs represent a side view of the plant and a 

 top view, looking down, showing the position of the gleba. 



Fig. 518 

 Aseroe rubra. 

 Photograph by A. S. Hi 



FOMES JUNIPERINUS. 



In the 21st Bulletin of Div. of Veg. Physiology and Pathology, 

 Dr. H. von Schrenk gives an exhaustive account of a disease called 

 the "white rot," which does considerable damage to the wood of the 

 Red Cedar of our Southern States. Notwithstanding that the disease 

 is quite destructive and a large percentage of the logs is affected with 

 it, it rarely produces the fruiting bodies, and but two collections were 

 recorded, one by Miss Price, at Bowling Green, Ky., and the other 

 by Dr. von Schrenk, at Murfreesboro, Tenn. The fungus is a Fomes 

 which Dr. von Schrenk names Fomes j uniperinus, and my thanks are due 

 to Dr. von Schrenk for privilege of examining the only type speci- 

 ^Sr 1 ? existence ' The remarkable part about this Fomes is the 

 reddish color of the context, no other species being known in the 

 United States with reddish context. Externally, it resembles the 

 common Fomes igniarius, having a black, rimose surface with no 



stmct crust. Internally, it is latericeous, or pale brick color. The 

 pores are indistinctly stratified, small, round, but have become elon- 

 gated by the tearing of the walls. The spores are abundant, pale- 



Jlored, globose, 4-5 mic. There are no setae or cystidia. 



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