306—“LYCOPERDON” KAKAVA. 
Just sixty years ago this plant was “described” but in the inter¬ 
vening time not a word of additional information has been added to it. 
There is a specimen in the Museum of Paris from which our figure 82 
has been made. With¬ 
out regard to the col¬ 
lector’s notes the plant 
would not now be called 
a Lycoperdon, differing 
in the gleba and in its 
mode of dehiscence. 
The latter appears to be 
similar to a Calvatia. 
The gleba is olive- 
brown and differs from 
Lycoperdon in the al¬ 
most entire absence of 
capillitium. The spores 
are small 3 mic., very 
rough, angular, glo¬ 
bose. 
The specimen was 
collected at Mount 
Gede, Java, by Zip- 
pelius who states: “The 
peduncle is furnished 
with a red membrane 
which encloses a viscid, 
lead-colored mass.” 
If this is true, of 
course, the plant is no 
Lycoperdon. No trace 
Fi g- 82 - of this ‘ ‘ membrane ” is 
found on the specimen as it exists to-day. The botanists of Java are 
quite active these latter days, and some one should look out for this 
plant and give a good account of it. It is undoubtedly a “ new genus.” 
307—MITREMYCES CINNABARINUS. 
Probably the first specimen that ever reached Europe is found 
to-day in the herbarium of Desvaux in Museum of Paris. Except the 
“ hab. Am. Bor.” there is nothing to show the source of it. Persoon 
first described it and his figure is so perfect of Desvaux’s specimen, that 
there is no doubt it is the identical plant he described. The next man 
to consider it juggled Persoon’s name off of it, and since although the 
plant has been several times named and juggled, poor old Persoon 
never got any further advertising out of it. Persoon made a guess 
about the plant that is worth repeating as a curiosity. “ This plant 
has its orifice colored a beautiful vermilion. One notes this color also 
though feeble in the roots. This makes one think that this vegetable 
grows in the neighborhood of cinnabar mines.” 
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