388 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [NOVEMBER 
typica, the variety nearest to D. duplicata, seem to afford sufficient 
ground for regarding the two as distinct species on account of 
the difference in the form of the pileus and in the almost mem- 
branaceous character of the marginal portion of the veil of D. 
duplicata. 
Subfamily CLATHRE# (Fries). 
CLATHRUS Micheli, Nova plantar. genera 214. 1729. 
Receptaculum wanting a stipe, consisting of a hollow clath- 
rate structure of obliquely ascending and anastomosing bars, or 
consisting of a few vertical columns joined together at the apex 
(Laternea). Gleba inclosed within the receptaculum. 
CLATHRUS COLUMNATUS Bosc. 
Colonnaria urceolata, truncata, etc., Raf. Med. Repos. 1808, according to Gerard 
in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 7: 30. 
Clathrus seg erie Bose, eS Gesell. naturf, Freunde zu Berlin 5:85, #1. 5-/ 
5. 1811. Cf Ed. Fischer, Saccardo’s Syll. Fung. 7:18 
Clathrus colonnarius Leman, Dict. Sc. Nat. 9: 360. 1817. 
Laternea columnata Nees, Nees and Henry’s System der Pilze 2:96. 1858. 
Laternea angolensis Welwitsch and Currey, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26 : 286. 
1870. 
_ Clathrus angolensis (Welw. and Curr.) Ed. Fischer, Saccardo’s Syll. Fung. 7 #19 
8. 
Laternea columnata (Bosc) Morgan, Jour. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. 11+4% 
1889. 
Laternea pusilla B. & C. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 10:343. 1869. o 
Clathrus Berkeleyi Gerard in litt, Ed. Fischer, S do’s Syll. Fung. 7 : 18. 1888. 
Clathrus triscapus Mont. Gay Historia fisica y politica de Chile Bot. 7:497- - : 
Clathrus Brasiliensis Ed. Fischer, Versuch. e. syst. Uebers. 68. 1886. 
(?) Laternea triscapa Turp. Morgan, Jour. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. 11: 2149 
7: 
Clathrus (Laternea) australis Spegazzini, Anales de la Sociedad cientien A 
66. 
tina 24: 
‘Clathrus cancellatus Tourn. , vars. Berkeleyi, Brasiliensis, columnata, 
Ed. Fischer, Untersuch, Phalloideen 55. 1890 
Laternea columnata (Bosc) A. Moller, bees Pilzblumen. , 1895. 
Receptaculum consisting of 2 to 5 massive vertical cal 
separate below but joined together at the apex; columns 
