1896] THE PHALLOIDEZ OF THE UNITED STATES 391 
backs traversed their entire length by a shallow furrow; cavity 
of the stipe nearly closed at the base of the arms by a dia- 
phragm through which there is an opening upward into a closed 
chamber with a dome-shaped wall; gleba supported on the dome 
and closely embraced by the arms; spores 3 to 4p X 1.5 p, borne 
on cross-septate basidia constricted at the septa. 
Total height of plant 4 to 5™(10 to 12™). Growing in cul- 
tivated fields. New York, Burt, 1893, A. E. Burt, 1894, in an 
asparagus bed, Peck, 1896; and in a low meadow, Westboro, 
Mass., F. L. Sargent, 1894. Mr. Sargent states that in the speci- 
mens found by him the arms varied in number from five to seven. 
One of the mature plants of the original collection has three 
of its six arms joined together at the upper ends, showing an 
approach toward the conditions in the genus Colus. The plant 
is quite normal in all other respects, and the conditions under 
which it was collected preclude the idea of its being more than 
a variation of A. borealis. 
Lysurus Texensis Ellis. Gerard in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 7:30, 
1880, mentioned a plant to which this name was given pro- 
Visionally. The description has not been completed. 
I am under great obligation to Dr. Farlow for the se of 
books and for access to the specimens of the Phalloidee in the 
Curtis Herbarium; and also to Professor Peck for the privile 8° 
of examining the Phalloidew in the New York State Herbarium 
at Albany, N. Y. 
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE, MIDDLEBURY, VT. 
