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EUMYCETES 



1). Anthurus MacOwani*. This handsome fungus appears in May in oak- 

 woods near Somerset West, whence it was brought to us by Mr N. S. PlLLANS. 



It is of a very spongy texture, the strands of hyphae of which it is constructed 

 being separated by large air chambers. The dark red patches on the inner 

 side of the segments shown in the figure are particles of' the slimy gleba 

 (masses ot spores) left there on the separation of' the segments. 



This species somewhat resembles a plant from Natal, described by 

 Kalchrrenner and MacOwan as Anthurus JVoodii^ i but it differs from it by 

 the shorter stipes and the much longer lanceolate acuminate segments, which 

 are 6 to 8 times as long as wide. The black spores are very minute. 



E. Lycopcrdon. There are a number of species of puff-balls in South 

 Africa, most of them probably introduced and spread by sheep or cattle. One 

 ot the most common species is L. pratense in several varieties, appearing 

 especially on grazing lands at the beginning of winter. (See page ";o.) 



Fig. i 5 a. Kalchbrennera 

 corallocephala (Welw. 

 l\: Curr.) Ed. Fisch. 

 2/3 nat. size. The 

 stipes is yellowish, the 

 short branches are ear- 

 mine. Said to be phos- 

 phorescent. (After 

 Kalchbrennerex Engler 

 & Prantl) 



* Anthurus MacOwam, sp. nov. Peridium ovoideum, albidum, irregulariter rumpens ; 

 pedunculus brevis, cylindraceus, albidus, in 5 — 6 laeinias divisus. Laeiniae simplices, 

 elongatae, acuminatae, recurvae, peduneulo JP'° longiores. (For the diagnosis of the genus 

 Anthurus Kalehbr. & MaeOw. see K. Kai.chbrennkr, Phalloidei Novi vcl minus 

 cogniti. budapest 1880.) Named in honour of Dr P. MacOwan, for many years the 

 only botanist in South Africa who paid any attention to fungi. 



+ C. G. Lloyd, who examined the dried specimens of the plant originally sent 

 to Kew by Dr Medley Wood of Durban, declares it to be a Lysurui and not an 

 Anthurus, KalCHBRENNER's figure being an incorrect representation. The name would 

 consequently be Lysurus IVoodu (Kalehbr. & MacOw.) Floyd. See LlOYD, Synopsis of 

 the known phalloids. Cincinnati 1909. Other phalloids from South Afiiea represented 

 in European collections are lYntyophora phallo'ulta (Fig. 24, facing p. 30) and Kalchbrennera 

 corallocephala, the latter being fairly frequent in the East and South East. 



