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fifty specimens that he has phalloidea, multicolor, and callichroa ; by the 

 time he has seen one hundred this belief is considerably shaken : and 

 further experience forces him to the conclusion that there is only one 

 species. Nor is it possible to separate forms on such characters as the 

 relative position of the cap and net, the rounded or flattened bands of the 

 net, the size of the meshes, the depth of the net, and the extent of its 



Lloyd ('Synopsis of the known Phalloids/ 20 (1909)) says that the 

 colour forms of D. phalloidea " have a geographical significance. They 

 do not occur in Samoa; and Mr. C. B. Ussher, who has observed the species 

 in tropical Africa, informs me that they are absent there." 



The smell of D. phalloidea is, according to Holier, worse than that of 

 Phallus impudicus ; the smell of D. callichroa bears no resemblance to it, 

 and is " schwach, wiederlich siisslich." Bailey writes concerning D. multi- 

 color : "The odour of this beautiful fungus is decidedly strong and far 

 from being agreeable, but it has not the loathsomeness of an Aseroe." 

 Fetch says the smell of the Ceylon specimens is not by any means so 

 offensive as that of P. impudicus, being rather sweet, slightly offensive 

 indoors, and scarcely perceptible at a short distance from the fungus in 

 the open, so that he was never able to detect it by its smell, as one often 

 does Phallus. Miss Gibbs informs me that after her first gathering of the 

 fungus it was nearly always by smell that she afterwards detected it. 



LYCOPERDACE^E. 

 GEASTEK FIMBRIATUS Fr. Syst. Mycol. iii. 16 (1829). 



Manokoeari, rank jungle at edge of " korang " forest on ground, 200'. 

 Jan. 6173. 



Distrib. Recorded from all continents except Asia (?). 



GEASTER MIRABILIS Mont., var. TRICHIFER Lloyd, Mycological Notes, xxv. 



314, 317 (1907). G. trichifer Rick in Lloyd, /. c. 



" Is really a form of Geaster mirabilis, but the exoperidium is strongly 

 strigose, and the only Geaster known that has this character " (Lloyd). 



Manokoeari, rank jungle at edge of "koraug" forest on wood, 200'. 

 Jan. 5753. 



Distrib. Brazil. 



Fungi Imperfecti. 



HYPHOMYCETES. 



CYLINDROPHORA EPITRICHA Ramsbottom, sp. nov. 



Caespitulis minutis albis, byssinis ; hyphis ad basim 4 /* cr. ; septatis, ramulos 

 simplices unilaterales ferentibus ; hyphis fertilibus ascendentibus vel subrepentibus, 

 non-septatis ; conidiis ellipsoideis, 7-10 p. X 3-4 p.. 



In setis Sarcosoma novo-guineensis (q. v.). 5751. 



