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much the appearance of a Phallus but when the gleba deliquesces 

 the true nature of the pileus is seen, gleba foetid, black at ma- 

 turity ; spores of usual type of PhaUaceae. 



Collected in soil near a rotting strawstack, at Denton, Texas, 

 1907, by W. H. Long (No. 2000). Six plants were found close 

 together as if growing from a common mycelium, all in a semi- 

 dried condition. 



The writer has, with much hesitancy, provisionally assigned 

 this plant to Lysurus texensis Ellis, since there was undoubtedly 

 a plant of this character collected in Texas, although the de- 

 scription was not completed. It, however, may be only a red 

 form of Anthurus borealis Burt. 



Laternea columnata (Bqsc.) Nees 



A fine specimen (dried) of this plant has just been received 

 from Texas. It has four columns and when fresh was un- 

 doubtedly red. A detailed description is unnecessary since the 

 specimen is typical of this well known and widely distributed 

 species. In soil ( ?), collected at Houston, Texas, January, 1917, 

 by Geo. L. Fisher and communicated by B. C. Tharp (No. 6270, 

 Herb. Long). Laternea triscapa Turp. has also been reported 

 from Texas and is supposed to be in the Ellis collection, but 

 apparently the specimen is lost, since previous efforts to locate it 

 failed. 3 It was probably L. columnata. 



Six species of phalloids are now known from Texas, viz. : 

 Phallus impudicus L. var. imperialis Schw., P. rubicundus Bosc, 

 Mutinus caninus (Huds.) Fries, Simblum sphaerocephalum 

 Schlecht, 5. texense (Atk. & Long) Long, Laternea columnata 

 (Bosc.) Nees, and Lysurus texensis Ellis ( ?). 



Type material of Geasteroides texensis and Arachniopsis albi- 

 cans has been deposited in the Pathological and Mycological Col- 

 lections of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Office of Investigations in Forest Pathology, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 Albuquerque, N. Mex. 



3 Long, William H. The Phalloideae of Texas, Jour. Myc. 13: 113. 

 1907. 



