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Subfamily PHaLLEe# (Fries). 
MUTINUS Fries Summa Veg. Scand. 2: 434. 1849. 
Receptaculum consisting of a hollow stipe and lacking pileus 
and veil. Gleba borne on the outer surface of the upper por- 
tion of the stipe. 
Mutinus Curtisi (Berk.) Ed. Fischer. 
Corynites Curtisti Berkeley, Grevillea 2:34. 1873. Compare James in Bull. Tor- 
rey Bot. Club 15:314. p/. 86. 1888 
Mutinus hota (Berk.) Ed. Fischer, Saccardo’s Syll. Fung. 7 $13. 1888, 
Mut bovinus Morgan, Sane Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. 112147. fh 3. 1889. 
Ed. Hosa. Veen: Phall. 1890 
(?) Caromyces elegans oa oe fies b. 1850. 
(?) Corynites elegans Montagne Sylloge Cryptogamarum 281. 1856. 
?) Mutinus as ae Ed. Fischer, Saccardo’s Syll. Fung. 7 +13: 1888. 
Neue Untersuch. Phall. 39. 1893. 
Stipe horn Sd. tapering gradually from the base to the 
apex, sometimes subtriangular in cross-section, hollow, white or 
pinkish below and bright red above, perforate at the apex, 
spore bearing part with the same structure as the rest of the 
stipe. 
Plant 4 to 7 in height with a stipe 34" thick (10 to Ya by 
2™). Growing in cultivated grounds and in woods. aa 
Morgan; Connecticut, Wright, Eaton, Thaxter; Long Islan 
Peck; Massachusetts, James. : 
This plant is very distinct from the following specie being 
es 
larger, with a stipe having its greatest diameter where it issu 
from the volva, and then tapering very gradually u ae 
Owing to an error in the dimensions of the plant as publishe 
arded as 
by Berkeley in Grevillea, this species has been reg 
probably identical with C. Ravenelii. The authentic spe 
upon which Berkeley’s description was based is in the Cu 
Herb. in a good state of preservation. It bears the mae? 
label and description which does not differ materially from tha 
published : 
(5635) Corynites Curtisii, Berk. / 
. Hymenophorum stipitiform, tubular, thin, subtriangular, 
jmen 
red, pitted above 
