Fig. 897. 



Fig. 896. 



Poria subiculosa. 



CATASTOMA MAGNUM, FROM GEORGE BROWN, NEW 

 ZEALAND (Fig. 897). This is only a large form of Catastoma anom- 

 alum (cfr. Lye. Aust. page 27, Myc. Notes, page 319). But in addition 

 to its large size it differs in other respects. The 

 exoperidium is thick and leathery. In the 

 type form of Catastoma anomalum it is thin 

 and papery. The spores are 6-7 mic. and 

 strongly rough, in anomalum they are slightly 

 rough. Usually they are apedicellate, some- 

 times with a short, hyaline pedicel, 4-5 mic. 



We consider it only a form of Catastoma 

 anomalum, but it differs in the same degree 

 that Catastoma subterraneum differs from Ca- 

 tastoma circumscissum. Neither Catastoma 

 subterraneum nor Catastoma magnum are distinct species from the 

 corresponding Catastoma circumscissum or Catastoma anomalum 

 for me. 



ASEROE RUBRA. FROM GEORGE BROWN, NEW ZEA- 

 LAND. We present a photograph of this plant (Fig. 898) made from 



a dried specimen sent by 

 Mr. Brown. It shows how 

 characteristic phalloids 

 are when carefully dried. 

 This figure presents the 

 plant almost as well as 

 the photograph of the 

 fresh plant we produced 

 on page 522 which was 

 from Australia. This New 

 Zealand plant has a 

 shorter, thicker stem than 

 the Australian plant pho- 



Fig - 898 - tographed, but surely the 



same species. In fact it has become very well established now that 



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e species of Asei 

 carries three (including a 



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acuuc species, in lact it nas oecoine very wen csLaunsiicu u 

 there is but one species of Aseroe in Australasia, although the Hand- 

 book ""*-.Ww'M 



