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MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
REV, L. J. GRELET 
Our photograph is of an active French mycologist, a member 
of the Mycological Society of France and a special student of the 
Discomycetes. For many years he was in close relations with Monsieur 
Boudier, who named some species in his honor. We have not had the 
pleasure of a personal acquaintance with Rev. Grelet, but are in¬ 
debted to him for a very large shipment of specimens, mostly of 
Discomycetes. Should we ever take up the study of the group the 
specimens will'be most helpful, 
WORTHINGTON G. SMITH 
Fifteen or twenty years ago Mr. Smith sent me the photograph 
that we reproduce. We failed to publish it during his life. While 
we m America know but little of Mr. Smith he was closely connected 
with the mycological department of the British Museum and well known 
in England through the books he wrote or rather compiled on mycology. 
It is about as difficult for a man living in London to acquire an 
actual knowledge of fungi as for an Arab living in the desert of 
Sahara to write a book on the culture of ginseng. Mr. Smith was a 
very good artist and it is to be regretted that his mycological 
illustrations were not extended beyond forty-eight plates. He was 
about sixty years old when I first came into correspondence with him 
and the photo was sent me. I never knew him personally but I have 
no doubt he was a very fine old man. Any one who loves dogs is 
worth cultivating. 
THE GENUS PROTUBERA 
account 
Alfred Moeller gave an excellent with figures of this genus 
from Brazil in Brasilische Pilzblumen (1895). The systematic posi¬ 
tion of the genus is in doubt. It is between Hymonogasters and 
Phalloids, agreeing with the former in having a peridium (which cor¬ 
responds to a volva ) and encloses the gleba, and with Phalloids in 
the gelatinous nature, color and structure of gleba, basidia and 
spores. To my mind it should be set apart in a special Order, and 
the addition of a second species from South Africa is of much inter¬ 
est, We-now have knowledge of five species of this Order. Two 
Protubera with permanent gleba cells with gelatinous walls and three 
species of Phallogaster (Cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 739) which differ in the 
complete deliquescence of the tissue. 
PROTUBERA MARACUJA FROM REV. RICK, BRAZIL (Fig. 1748 ).- 
From the excellent account as published it is not necessary to give 
additional description. The interior is filled with a greenish' olive 
gleba which dries hard and soaks up gelatinous. This is divided 
into several large compartments by plates that radiate from the base 
and merge into the peridium. Our enlargement (Fig. 1749) will show 
these plates although in a dried specimen they are dark colored and 
difficult to show in a photograph. The gleba mass to the eye is some¬ 
what porous, the lens resolving it into chambers with gelatinous, hya¬ 
line walls. The gleba of Protubera is of the same general nature as 
that of a Phalloid, but in Protubera the gleba walls are permanent 
and in a true Phalloid the walls deliquesce in ripening leaving a 
