144 Rhodora [May 
before setting models that, if they have any effect, will tend to 
confirm some illiterate usages and establish others quite new. 
Whatever may be said of generic names, which often, as in the case 
of the American pronunciation of Coprínus, permanently escape from 
the control of the laws of quantity, there will never be but one 
correct way to spell and to accent specific names when they are 
formed by Latin adjectives. In spite of Miss Marshall, then, and 
those whose usage she records, it is incorrect to say rddicans, calopus, 
édulis, velütinus, procera, caesaréa, and albidum, just as truly it is 
incorrect to write veZufipas or cretaceous. ‘This sort of thing becomes 
ludicrous when for /évolus alveolaris (the original spelling) is 
recommended Zavó/us areolartus. 
The best thing about the book is the series of plates, around which 
the text is built. They are from the work of Mr. J. A. and Miss H. 
C. Anderson, whose colored photogrdphs have been much admired. 
Only a few of these (Armillaria mellea, Clavaria formosa, Boletinus 
pictus, Calostoma cinnabarinum, for instance) fail to do justice to the 
plants. The rest are admirable. It is a noteworthy performance to 
have the three species of Calostoma, so long disputed, clearly differ- 
entiated on one plate. Yet the plates have been badly handled. 
They are not numbered, and some species are far removed from the 
places where they occur in the text. 
It would be pleasant to find less to say in condemnation of a work 
like “ The Mushroom Book." Its publishers are pushing it hard as 
the best book on the market. It is said to be selling well, and there 
is reason to fear that it is. 
Two ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF CoNNECTICUT.— Last summer 
the writer found, in Hartford, the following plants which do not ap- 
pear to have been previously reported as occurring in Connecticut : 
Scleria pauciflora Muhl. A patch about a rod square on Kenney 
Park, Hartford, in dry sandy land sloping to the south, 
Panicum sphaerocarpon Ell. In several places in Hartford, always 
in dry land. Appears to be quite common.— Hans J. KOEHLER, 
Hartford, Connecticut. 
BOTRYCHIUM MATRICARIAEFOLIUM ON Mr. Topsy, MASSACHUSETTS. 
—In Mrs. Owen's interesting account of the ferns of Mt. Toby in 
the March number of RHODORA, it is stated that Botrychium matri- 
