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DRIED PHALLOIDS.
We present the photograph (Fig. 764) of a dried phalloid simply
to show how it is practical to dry phalloids successfully. It is onlynecessary
to place them in a current
of air so they will dry rapidly,
and they will preserve their shape
and color. The specimen that we
photographed was dried by being
laid on the window sill with the
window raised about one inch, so
as to bring a current of air directly
over it, and it dried so rapidly that
it lost neither its form nor color.
There are many phalloids in
tropical countries that are very imperfectly
known, and if those who
note them will pick up and dry
them in the manner described, and
send to me, much will be added to
our knowledge of the phalloid situa-
Fig. 764
tion. The only perfect record of a
phalloid is a good photograph, but
next to a good photograph, a phalloid dried so as to retain its shape
is almost as characteristic.
After the phalloids are dried, wrap them loosely in tissue paper,
put them in a pasteboard box intact, and mail them to my address.
They will reach me in good condition if they are not crushed in the
mail. It is better not to put other specimens with them, and to protect
them well from being broken in transit.
TREMELLA FUCIFORMIS (Fig. 765), FROM R. P. BURKE,
ALABAMA. This is a tropical species, and judging from the scanty
collections of tropical Tremellas in
the museums of Europe, it is the
most frequent species in the tropics.
Moeller gave a good
illustration of
it, from Brazil. I have it from
India. Barring Atkinson's erroneous
reference (based on Tremella
vesicaria, with no resemblance to
it), there is no record of the species
in the United States. In the
Fig. 765. British Museum there is a specimen
from Ravenel, which Berkeley
(or someone) misreferred to Tremella lutescens. This specimen from
Dr. Burke is the first one I have from our southern States, and the
second I think that has been collected.
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