120 The Botanical Gazette. 
as can be determined from the material at hand, do noti® 
a parallel elsewhere in the family, appear to bear no defn ; 
relation to the areas on the inner face of the peridial Ww 
upon which the gleba lobes are seated, including them of : 
without regularity. 
The question of homologies between this and other pie 
loid genera may well be deferred till its earliest conditos 
are exactly known; meanwhile it would be perhaps more® 
than profitable to point out by what modifications we mi 
readily convert it into something very like the genus Clatins 
In view of the above history the original diagnosis of te 
form may be modified as follows: 
PHALLOGASTER Morgan.—Mycelium fibrous, bam’ 
ing. Peridium spherical to pyriform, stipitate or substip , 
consisting of a single layer covered by an evanescent ¢ B 
and coarsely reticulated through the presence of numel * 
regular thin areas which become perforate at maturity, ‘ 
perforation commonly associated with a general term r 
hiscence of the peridium into several divergent lobes. | ee 
irregularly lobed, the lobes continuous with slight prom le 
from the surface of the peridium from which they ant 
where separated by a gelatinous layer conte f 
central gelatinous axis which penetrates the gleba an 
ates its lobes. The entire contents deliquescent at ™ ¢ 
adhering‘in distinct masses to the inner surface of “ 
tured peridium. 
gi 
B 
Soc. Nat. Hist. xv, 171, plate 1, Oct. 1892.—PUN 
irregular perforations, the perforation usually ase 
a terminal dehiscence of the peridium into from t in de® 
divergent lobes: the dark sage-green gleba adherine 4 
Masses of irregular size and shape to the innet 5 xt. 
peridial wall. Spores greenish, sub-cylindrical ee 
6-8 on each basidium. Conn 
Ohio (Morgan and Herrick). New York wa off 
(Underwood). Maine (Thaxter) on the group 
wood under Fagus. | 
flarvard University, 
