Pyrisperma, (hypogea), a sort of truffle, growing under ground 
in the sands of New Jersey. 
Sternastrum, (bosen), it resembles a geastrum that should be 
pediculated, but bears large seeds, etc. In Virginia. 
Phorima, (betulina, coccinea, minuta, etc.), resembling the 
sessile boletus , but bearing underneath small concave cavities instead of 
pores. Found in different states. 
Eeptopora (nivea stercoraria, difformis, etc.), differs from the 
sessile boletus by its substance, and being covered all over by pores. 
In different states. 
Eriosperma, (alba, fugax, etc.), the fructification is in a wool 
covering them. In Penn. 
Gelatina, (fcetidissima, lutea, rubra, alba, etc.), it consists in a 
jelly almost amorphous, growing upon wood in many states. 
Xylissus, (lineatus oblongus, cylindricus, etc.), sort of mucor 
growing upon wood, of which the peridium becomes a mass of seeds 
at maturity. Found in Penn. 
Hypolepia, (Igniarias difformis, etc.), this singular production, 
which is called punk in some parts of the United States, grows under 
the bark of decayed trees, and resembles a piece of tinder. 
Hydromycus. (tremelloides, aquosus, etc.), this mushroom 
joins those plants with the tremella. It grows in rivulets, or moist 
places, on the roots of trees in New Jersey and Penn.” 
DICTYBOLE TEXENSIS. 
A curious Phalloid has been found by Mr. Long, of Texas, and 
published in the Botanical Gazette with the cut which we reproduce 
here. 
The Botanical Gazette is largely devoted to physiological botany, 
and its circulation among systematic 
mycologists is necessarily restricted. 
We are, therefore, pleased to give the 
plant a more extended notice by repro¬ 
ducing it in Mycological Notes. Our 
publication is sent to more than seven 
hundred addresses, almost everyone of 
them working mycologists, and located 
in all parts of the world. 
Dictybole texensis seems to have a 
similar structure to the genus Itajahya 
as illustrated in Engler & Prantl. A 
better idea of the plant can be obtained 
from the cut than from the description, 
and it is to be regretted that the section 
of the Phalloid was not given as was 
done with Itajahya. ‘‘The sterile 
Fig. « 4 . plates in upper part of gleba numerous, 
dictybole texensis. short and narrow, arranged in a more or 
less radiating and imbricated manner; latticed portion with large 
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