by Tulasne from a species of Coccus from New Guinea, 50 years ago. 

 Nothing is known of it excepting Tulasne's account, and no material 

 is in Tulasne's herbarium. The heads are globose, differing in shape 

 from those of Cordyceps clavulata, but it may develop in time that 

 they are variations of the same thing. 



LYSURUS GARDNERI. 



LYSURUS GARDNERI (Fig. 835). We present herewith a 

 sketch of Lysurus Gardneri, recently sent us by C. C. Brittlebank, 

 Melbourne. In our Phalloid Synopsis, we 

 ^^jV presented nine species of Lysurus, and the 



v^tv-'^ lk evidence since is. that four of them, viz., 



Lysurus Gardneri (Ceylon), Lysurus Austra- 

 liensis (Australia), Lysurus borealis (United 

 States) and Lysurus Clarazianus (Argentina) 

 are all one and the same thing. We have be- 

 lieved it for a long time, and there was no 

 longer any room for doubt on the appearance 

 of "Notes on Australian Fungi No. 2," 

 August, 1915, by Dr. Cleland and Edwin 

 Cheel. We suspected it from the first, but 

 Professor Fetch main- 

 tained that Lysurus 

 Gardneri had its arms 

 joined by a membrane 

 at the apices, which 

 was not the case as far 

 as known in the other 

 species. Messrs. Cle- 

 land and Cheel have 

 satisfactorily ex- 

 plained this. In Aus- 

 tralia, while the arms 

 are usually free, they 

 are sometimes "united 

 at the apex by a thin 

 membrane which gives 

 the specimen a some 

 what clathrate appear- 

 ance." The figure 836 

 which we reproduce 

 from Messrs. Cleland 

 and Cheel presents the top of a young specimen with two of the 

 arms joined. Mr. Brittlebank's sketch (Fig. 835) shows the arms 

 connivent, as they are at first. They afterwards spread out, as 

 shown in the fine photograph by Hollis Webster, published in 

 Mycological Notes, page 513. 



There is a long story connected with the species. First it was 

 sent Berkeley from Ceylon and named Lysurus Gardneri. It is rare 



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Fig. 835. 



