| BoTANICAL GAZETTE 
APRIL, 1893. 
iy 
4 Contributions from the Cryptogamic Laboratory of Har- 
; vard University. XIX. 
Note on Phallogaster saccatus. 
ROLAND THAXTER. 
4 : Ns; and since the description above referred to seems to 
3 a te that the material on which it was based was some- 
. des immature, the publication of the present note seems 
ira 
the mine their identity, although, as will be observed, 
. count here given involves some modification of the 
sg description. 
type fem Presents so remarkable a departure from the 
Clath structure Common both to the Phallee and the 
“@, through the absence of any volva or receptacle dif- 
a 
tion of the 
“4O01ds more Closely with the Lycoperdacee than 
itherto discovered 
Tophore in the 
om .© Present genus arises, like that of its 
a branching rope-like mycelium, running on or 
tedan Sag 8round or decaying wood on which 
