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C. GIGANTEA Rudge 1. c. (C. lupuliformis Sartwell in Dew. Amer. 

 Journ. Sci. (II), 9, 29, 1850; C. lupulina var. polystachya. Schw. & 

 Torr. Ann. Lye. 1, 337, 1825). 



Forma a. minor n. f. pistillate spikes narrow and slender, the 

 perigynia being smaller, 10-11 mm. in length and proportionately 

 narrower. Throughout the range of the species. Harris, Oakland 

 Co., Michigan, Billington & Farwell, No. 5064, July 13, 1918. 



The typical form of the species with much larger spikes and longer 

 perigynia (13-20 mm. long) was not found in the vicinity. This 

 form as found at Harris is smaller than the species in all its parts, 

 but I am informed by Mr. Harold St. John, late of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, that only the perigynia and spikes are constant in their 

 smaller size. 



Var. 1. lupulina (Muhl) Farwell, Rept. Comrn. Parks, Detroit, 

 11,39, 1900. 



Forma a, pedunculata (Dew.) n. f. (C. lupulina, Muhl. var. pedunc- 

 ulata, Dew. in Wood, Bot. and Flor. 376, 1870). 



Forma b, Bella-villa (Dew.) n. f. (C Bella-villa, Dew. Amer. 

 Journ. Sci. (II) 41, 229, 1866. 



Var. 2, grandis (Bailey) n. var. (C, grandis, Bailey, Mem. Torr. 

 Bot. Club, 1, 13, 1889). 



C. retrorsa, Schw. var. Bradleyi (Dew.) n. comb. (C. Hartii, 

 var. Bradleyi, Dew. Amer. Journ. Sci. (II) 41, 226, 1866; C. retrorsa, 

 var. Hartii (Dew.) A. Gr. Man. 600, 1867). 



C. retrorsa, Schw. var. gigantoides (Dew.) n. comb. (C. lupu- 

 lina, var. gigantoides, Dew. 1. c. 328; C. retrorsa, var. Maeounii 

 (Dew.) Fernald, Rhodora 3, 55, 1901). 



The above changes are necessary under the International Rules 

 of Nomenclature. 



Department of Botany, Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich. 



Two recent Publications about Mushrooms. — We are some- 

 what late in registering an appreciation of Mr. L. C. C. Krieger's 

 colored plates of mushrooms which were made available to a large 

 public in the May, 1920, number of the National Geographic Maga- 

 zine. The artist, who is also an accurate and earnest student of this 

 group of fungi, was so long a resident of Massachusetts, where for 

 many years he was employed in making drawings for Dr. Farlow, in 

 Cambridge, that his work may almost be counted as that of a New 

 Englander. Indeed, some of the drawings now published are re- 

 cognizable as dating from the time when he was one of us. Those 

 who were privileged to see the work that he was then doing, so faith- 



