822 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
t was determined to be Clavaria gigantea Schw. n. 1112, 
Syn. Amer. bor. p. 182 = ACurtis gigantea Fr. Summa Veg. Scand. 
p. 337,* and is the plant referred to by Berkeley in the Gardeners 
Chronicle for March 16th, 1878, p. 889, as an abnormal condition 
of Lentinus tigrinus Fr. : 
The peculiar and somewhat strong odour, as well as the faint 
not unpleasant odour, which, however, sometimes develops into one 
of rotten cheese. The correctness of the guess was confirmed by 
only 7 x 3»; Saccardo says 6°5 x 8 ph. 
Botanists will remember many illustrations of abnormal forms 
of L. lepideus Fr. Sowerby figures an example in his t. 382. 
normal plant is seen i i : 
3 in. long, and pale buff in colour; from the base also springs 
three Clavaria-like growths. An unpublished drawing by Sowerby 
in the British M i . 
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has illustrated a plant apparently growing from a black polarokia 
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figure of a remarkable exam le. 
springing from a broad rhizomorphoid base, from which also grow 
nine Clavaria-like bod 
taken from a pe 
produces the ACurtis—shows the correctness of the author's deter- 
mination. Dickson's Fasciculus Plantarum Cryptogamicarum, t. 12, 
f. 9, probably belongs to the Clavaria form of Lentinus. err 
example grew on a door-frame in a wine-cellar at Hackney, arse 
ing to a pencil note in the British Museum copy of Dickson’s work: 
os ae Si iis os ns dio ee 
Cerise We a Curtis, Botanica et Mycologo eximio Caroline, 
dictum genus, eum Curtisia non et 7 ” Fries, 
