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them. There are a few Hymenogasters that are not hypogeal. The
most frequent, epigeal species we have is Rhizopogon, and in the
South, Hydnangium Ravenelii.
Nothing has been written as to the habits of Hydnangium Ravenelii,
but we judge from the specimens that it grows on the surface
of the ground. There is a statement that when fresh it exudes a
milky fluid when cut. If true, it is one of the few Hymenogasters so
characterized. The surface of the dried plant is smooth with a pinkish
color. The gleba formed of cells, empty to the eye, has a pale pinkish
cast. Collection notes as to habits, color when fresh, color of gleba
when freshly cut, milky juice, if any, etc., are earnestly desired.
Hydnangium Ravenelii was named by Berkeley as a variety of
Hydnangium Stephensii of England. We do not know the latter
plant excepting from description, and Tulasne's figure of the spores.
The spores of the American plant are not the same as Tulasne's spores.
They are globose or slightly compressed when young, and the spines
are more blunt.
We use the word spines as usually applied to the spores of
Hydnangium, but are suspicious that it is a mistake. We think they
do not have spines but are reticulate, the edges of the reticulations
appearing as "spines" as seen under the microscope.
Hydnangium Ravenelii was referred to the genus Octaviania by
Tulasne, as found in Saccardo. The distinction between these two
genera is not obvious to us, and we have studied species of both
genera from Europe. The "cottony" peridium that characterizes
Octaviania according to description is not in evidence in dried specimens.
The trama is the same, and hardly vesicular as attributed to
Hydnangium, nor are the cells of the species "filled with spores."
We believe it would simplify matters to call both Octaviania, as
Vittadini originally did.
Hydnangium Ravenelii seems frequent in the South. We have
specimens from G. C. Fisher, Florida; F. S. Earle, Dr. R. P. Burke,
and A. S. Bertolet, from Alabama.
ANTHURUS MACOWANI (Fig. 779). We reproduce the figure
of this species that was published recently in Marloth's Flora of
South Africa It is quite a rare species and seems to have been
named in honor of the fact that it was never collected by MacOwan.
The genus Anthurus is known now by only two species, Anthurus
aseroeformis (cfr. Syn. Phalloids, fig. 46) in Australia, and this from
South Africa and in addition there is a very imperfectly known
species in India, Anthurus calathiscus (fig. 49, 1. c.) On comparing
the figure published by Dr. Marloth, with that of the Australian
species published in our pamphlet, it will be seen that they closely
approach each other. They differ in shape, but not so much but that
they can be a modification of the same. If the South African species
proves in time to be the same as that of Australia, I presume I am
to blame, for the drawing was submitted and passed on by me before
it was published. At that time, however, we had no illustration of
the Australian species, and only knew it imperfectly. There is an-
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