Fig. 13. 
This species is at home in Asia and Australasia seeming to re¬ 
place Geaster pectinatus and G. Bryantii of Europe. It was well de¬ 
scribed by Berkeley (Ann. Nat. Hist. 3-399) as Geaster plicatus from 
some specimens from Madras which are still preserved at Kew labeled 
“Geaster striatus var. plicatus Klotz.” About 20 years later Berkeley 
redescribed it (Proc. Am. Acad. 4-124) from Bonin Island as Geaster 
biplicatus which would be a better name. Geaster Thwaitsii (Sacc. 7- 
471) from Ceylon has also the same peculiar characters. We have 
noted specimens in the above three collections at Kew from India, Cey¬ 
lon and Bonin Islands and from New Caledonia at Paris, but the only 
typical plants from Australia we have seen were sent us by Mr. R. T. 
Baker, Sydney, Australia. Fig 13 is a photograph of these beautiful 
and characteristic plants. 
Specimens in our Collection. 
Sydney , Australia, R. T. Baker. 
GEASTER PECTINATUS.—Exoperidium revolute, the my¬ 
celial layer usually adnate. Endoperidium pedicellate, even or slightly 
striate at the base. Mouth sulcate, beaked. 
The home of Geaster pectinatus is Sweden 
where it is perhaps the most frequent species. 
It is rare in the greater portion of Europe, be¬ 
ing replaced by Geaster Bryantii In the 
United States both species are rare. In Aus¬ 
tralia the large typical Swedish form I have 
never seen, but the plant called Geaster tenu- 
ipes (Hook. Jour. 48-576) I should refer to 
this species though smaller and intermediate 
between plicatus and pectinatus Two collec¬ 
tions are at Kew, from Tasmania and N. S. 
Wales. The figure in Flora Tasmania, while 
good of the specimen from which it was made 
(still preserved at Kew) is not characteristic of the species, which usu¬ 
ally has a more beaked mouth and exoperidium not concave but revo¬ 
lute. Fig. 14 is from an American specimen. 
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