Lloyd Mycological Writings V4.pdf - MykoWeb

List of Monographs
Peck, with the number
numbers have not as yet
Amanita,
Armillaria,
Bolbitius,
Cantharellus,
Claudopus,
Clitocybe,
Clitopilus,
Collybia,
Coprinus,
Cortinarius,
Crepidotus,
Deconica.
Eccilia,
Entoloma,
Flammula,
Galera,
Gomphidius,
Hebeloma,
Hygrophorus,
Hypholoma,
Inocybe,
Lactarius,
Lentinus,
Lepiota,
Professor Peck is exceedingly accomplished and exceptionally
genial, a man whom it is always a pleasure to meet. Many weeks
have I enjoyed in the museum of Albany in his company, and always
look forward with pleasure to my visit with him. No other man
occupies a warmer position to-day in the hearts of American mycologists,
and all who read these lines will concur in the hope that in the
ripeness of intellect and the best of health, Professor Peck may be
with us these many years to come.
THE UMBILICAL PLATES OF CLATHROID
PHALLOIDS.
Some one, I do not remember who, but it is immaterial, has
proposed that phallcids should be divided into two "Natural Orders,"
the clathroid section, where the young plants are developed from connection
with the cortex, and the phalloid section, where the plants
are developed from the base of the volva. In cutting open the eggs
of the phalloids, two types of volva are found. In the first type, the
true phalloid, as in the genus Phallus, etc., the interior of the volva
is one continuous, gelatinous mass. (Compare Fig. 131, page 294.)
In the second type, thin, white plates are found, dividing the gelatinous
portion into sections, and extending from the cortex of the
volva to the young plant. These white plates are called cortical
plates, but a better name for them would be umbilical plates, as the
young phalloid is apparently developed from or through these plates
the same way the foetus is developed from or through the umbilical
cord.
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