Phellorina strobilina (Fig. noi) is a very remarkable plant, the 



peridium has large, thick, pyramidal scales and the plant was well 



named in reference to a pine cone. The dehiscence is no doubt by 



the breaking apart of these thick scales. It has no sign of a columella, 



and i<* filled with a uniform, pale, brownish gleba. The spores are 



6-7 mic. and tuberculate. They are ver pale color under 



It has no true capillitium, but shreds of a hyaline membrane 



Hy mixed with the spores. The "capillitium thread," as 



Cooke's figure, as well as the "allantoid, sporiform cor- 



chat he imagined and showed, are conspicuous by their 





Fig. 1101. 

 Phellorina strobilina 



HISTORY. Mueller, who forty years ago was very active and prominent 

 in Australian botany, but did not know anything about fungi, sent a lot of fungi 

 to Germany. I do not know that I have it straight, but I think they were sent to 

 de Thuemen, who turned them over to Kalchbrenner, who was a prominent amateur 

 worker, and was just about as competent to name foreign fungi as I would be t( 



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