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the trunk of a dead tree, he kicked it over and the specimen of Gautieria 

 rolled out from beneath. 



A few days later I organized a party of advanced students for an 

 excursion to the locality. In the leaf mold near the dead tree we found 

 some half-dozen other specimens. Specimens have again been found 

 during the past summer by Mr. H. H. Fitzpatrick, one of my graduate 

 students, who has just completed a study of its development, since he 

 found it in all stages of growth. 



Gautieria morchelliformis Vitt., of Europe, has been reported from 

 Mexico. G. monticola Harkness has been described from California. 

 The species collected in the vicinity of Ithaca I have regarded as Gautieria 

 graveolens Vitt., of Europe. It has a strong, peculiar, and unpleasant 

 odor which is characteristic of several closely related species. 



The plant is attached at the base to a slender whitish rhizomorph 

 which broadens out within the gleba in the form of anastomosing planes 

 forming the sterile avenues which are covered with the hymen ium. 

 These make up the gleba tissue, or walls, which separate the winding 

 chambers which open to the outside. The spores are beautifully 

 sculptured, being longitudinally or obliquely ribbed. — George F. 

 Atkinson, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 



