1896] THE PHALLOIDEZ OF THE UNITED STATES 389 
bar-red; gleba suspended from underneath the apex of the 
receptaculum. Odor very fetid. 
Plant 2 to5 ™ in height. Growing in sandy soil. N. Carolina, 
Curtis; S. Carolina, Bosc, Ravenel; Georgia, Le Conte; Florida, 
Ravenel, Mrs. Curtis, Underwood, Rolfs; (?) Texas, Ellis. 
The number of columns composing the receptaculum has 
been regarded by some botanists as a sufficient distinction for 
making several species from this plant. The variations in the 
number of columns in plants from the same locality and even in 
the same lot of material show that this character is not of the 
importance assumed. I have followed A. Méller in slightly 
modifying Bosc’s original description so as to include the forms 
with two and five columns which occur in the tropics. Ed. 
Fischer seems to have gone too far in combining C. columnatus 
with C. cancellatus. C. columnatus in all of its forms seems to 
be sufficiently distinct from the other species in the massive 
structure of its columns and in their vertical position, the latter 
difference dating back in its origin to the earliest stage in the 
differentiation of the egg. 
Judging from Morgan’s description, the Laternea iriscapa 
Turp., collected by Ellis in Texas, hardly seems distinct from 
the three-columned form of C. coluwmnatus, which occurs in 
Florida. 
CLATHRUS CANCELLATUS Tourn. 
a rihey cancellatus Tourn. (see Tulasne in Expl. beep ee mene 
fg ae Ed. Fischer, Saccardo’s Syll. Fung. 7 hed eer : 
- Nat. Hist. rz: 148. 1887. 
Clathrus ruber, albus, flavescens, Micheli, Nova plantar. genera 214. 1729 
Clathrus volvaceus, Bull. Champignons. p/. ¢¢/- 
Clathrus niceensis Barla (see Luerssen Handbuch d. sys. Bot. 1:275- ile 
jo cancellatus Tourn. var. typica Ed. Fischer, Untersuch. Phalloideen 58 
parts ; 
red or 
bars 
Receptaculum spherical or obovoid, cancellate in all 
transversely wrinkled, from 4™™ to 1™ wide, cinnabar- 
White or yellowish on their outer surface, inner surface of 
ted; meshes irregularly polygonal. Odor very fetid. 
bar 
