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PHOTOGRAPH OF ASEROE RUBRA.
At the time we issued our phalloid pamphlet, we knew of no photograph of
Aseroe rubra and reproduced the original drawing, which was made about one
hundred years ago and was very crude. We were pleased to receive from Mr. A. S.
Hamilton, Rockwood, Australia, an excellent photograph of Aseroe rubra, natural
size, which we reproduce above.
The phalloids of the world will never be really known until all of them have
been illustrated with characteristic photographs, and our thanks are especiallydue
to Mr. Hamilton. The photographs represent a side view of the plant and a
top view, looking down, showing the position of the gleba.
Fig. 518
Aseroe rubra.
Photograph by A. S. Hi
FOMES JUNIPERINUS.
In the 21st Bulletin of Div. of Veg. Physiology and Pathology,
Dr. H. von Schrenk gives an exhaustive account of a disease called
the "white rot," which does considerable damage to the wood of the
Red Cedar of our Southern States. Notwithstanding that the disease
is
quite destructive and a large percentage of the logs is affected with
it, it rarely produces the fruiting bodies, and but two collections were
recorded, one by Miss Price, at Bowling Green, Ky., and the other
by Dr. von Schrenk, at Murfreesboro, Tenn. The fungus is a Fomes
which Dr. von Schrenk names Fomes j uniperinus, and my thanks are due
to Dr. von Schrenk for privilege of examining the only type speci-
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? existence ' The remarkable part about this Fomes is the
reddish color of the context, no other species being known in the
United States with reddish context. Externally, it resembles the
common Fomes igniarius, having a black, rimose surface with no
stmct crust.
Internally, it is latericeous, or pale brick color. The
pores are
indistinctly stratified, small, round, but have become elongated
by the tearing of the walls. The spores are abundant, pale-
Jlored, globose, 4-5 mic. There are no setae or cystidia.
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