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long, tawny, for the most part five-lobed ; lobes attenuated upwards 
at first connivent, then somewhat reflexed, with a longitudinal de. 
pression along the middle, transversely rugose. Stem cylindrical 
10-12 cm. long, nearly 2 cm. thick, hollow, cellular, whitish. Volya 
globose, torn in lobes, white. Pulp rufous brown, becoming blackish, 
Spores 3X1 mw. On the ground, Queensland.” 
I think the above description well accords with the following notes 
which I drew up at the time, and as I hold the opinion that ever 
plant added to the British list should be fully described by the re- 
corder so that botanists may be enabled to judge what variation (if 
any) there be in the plants found on British soil. Stem cylindrical, 
6 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, but attenuated at the base within the volva 
to 1 cm., whitish, hollow, net-celled, divided at the apex into six arms, 
Arms deep rich reddish brown, 15-20 mm. long, 5-8 mm. wide at 
the base, attenuated at the apex, longitudinally one-grooved down 
the centre and transversely cross-ribbed, erect, slightly incurved at the 
apex, hollow except at the extreme apex, not net-celled, but of a 
different texture to the flesh of the stem. Volva 4 cm. wide, white, 
irregularly torn, and with white strands of mycelium all round the 
base. Spores reddish brown, 3 x I°5 pu. 
The whole plant at first sight looks like a Sea Anemone with its 
reddish brown tentacles and whitish stem seated in the volva of an 
ordinary Amanita phalloides. 
It is a curious fact that in August of last year Klitzing at Lud- 
wigslust, Mecklenburg, Germany, found a variety of an American 
phalloid growing in a field of asparagus, which is described in Beiblatt 
zur ‘“‘Hedwigia” Band xli., 1902, pp. 167-174, as follows :— 
“Anthurus borealis Burt variety Kiitzingii P. Henn. Mycelium 
filiform or root-like, branched, white ; exoperidium at first subglobose, 
then ovoidellipsoid, 3 cm. long, 24 cm. wide. Volva white on the 
exterior, papyraceous, middle layer gelatinous, inner layer membran- 
aceous, white longitudinally striate, irregularly lobed. Stem clavate. 
attenuated at the base, 2 cm. wide at the apex, 2-74 cm. long, quite 
hollow inside, whitish outside, net-celled, wall at base of 1-2 layers 
higher up of 3 layers, a thickened ring at the apex which is divided 
into 5-7 narrow lanceolate arms; arms with a longitudinal furrow 
down the middle which is naked, white and sub-silky, but everywhere, 
except at the base, on the inside transversely rugose, whitish, clothed 
with the chestnut mass of spores, then free, separate, erect, apex 
obtuse or subacute, 1-2°8 x0°4-0'°5 cm. Basidia oblong, clavate, 
continuous ; spores 5-8 ellipsoid, subfusoid, light green, 3°5-4 x 1°5-2 
Anthurus borealis is described as light flesh coloured, the spore masses 
olive green ; the variety is never olive green.” 
Now the genus Anthurus Kalch Grev. ix. p. 2 is defined by Cooke 
and the same authorities I cited for Lysurus as having the receptacle 
stipitate, or with a very short stem, divided above into erect patent 
