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Mycologia 



ing at Cinchona at the time, placed a section of the gleba under 

 her microscope and made a pencil sketch of it for me. She found 

 the sterile threads to be hyaHne, septate, interwoven, and slightly 

 larger than the spores. 



The remains of another specimen were found near the first, 

 and these served to indicate the method of spore dissemination, 

 which is evidently by means of rain. There is no odor about the 

 plant to attract insects and no stipe to lift the gleba in air; when 

 the spores are mature, the interior tension evidently ruptures 

 the weakened peridium and allows the liquid containing the count- 

 less minute spores to escape, when the frequent rains effect their 

 wide distribution. 



The generic name assigned refers to the resemblance of this 

 species to the " egg," or undeveloped stage, of a species of Phallus. 

 The affinities of the genus appear to be with Phallogaster. 



Since the above was written. Miss Taylor has brought in three 

 specimens collected by her on the same spot as the types. They 

 all show a single mycelial cord attaching the fruit-body to the 

 underground mycelium. In the young stages the peridium appears 

 to be avellaneous becoming white at maturity. 



New York Botanical Garden 



