9] "Note on Phallogaster saccatus. 119 
to as separating the gleba from the peridium. The peridial 
wall, moreover, does not form a homogeneous and unbroken 
layer, but is singularly modified by the presence of numerous 
depressed areas (figs. 2, 3, 6, 2), irregular in size, shape and 
position, giving the surface in many specimens an irregularly 
reticulated appearance, which, though less distinct in fresh 
material, becomes well defined when the wall is slightly 
ae by drying or by treatment with alcohol. These 
e 
liarities of the form in question, are filled with loosely woven 
I slimy Masses, of irregular size and 
tidium j ee this condition the expanded funnel- 
: S hollow to its very base and has assumed 
omplished in the group by means of a 
; ; ex - * . 
complished the removal 5 wes to the air the fetid 
i oug the agenc 
Fesultant sieces be mentioned that the. depressed areas 
peridial wall, which, as far 
