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Chondrioderma ochraceum, Schroter, has the lime in furfuraceous 
condition, but for some reason (?) did not go with its relatives into 
Didymium. 
Chondrioderma and Physarum seem to get very close together. 
P. brunneolum has a polished, porcelain-like wall, and lime in the 
knots of the capillitium, and what is worse the lime has the form 
prescribed for Badhamia! -The next species leans strongly to- 
ward Tilmadoche, and the second toward Craterium. 
In the way of variety of terms nothing more would be asked. 
There is “‘sporangium,” “ peridium,’”’ “perithecium,” ‘ pileus,”’ 
and ‘ capitulum”’ (p. 234), though this last seems to be a slip for 
“ capillitium.’’ On page 282, third line from bottom, “ capillitium ”’ 
probably means “ columella;’’ and on 192, eight lines from bottom, 
‘spores ’’ should, to make sense, read ‘* spines.”’ 
On page 349, among explanations of plates, ‘‘ Criéraria macro- 
carpa’’ seems to be a mistake for “* C. mzcrocarpa,’ a very different 
species. 
The index is incomplete, and even the alphabetic arrangement 
is in places out of joint. 
One finds, on referring to the ‘‘ Descriptions of Figures,” that 
numbers 85 and 86 are “ Badhamia fusea, Mass.” It appears to 
be a fine species, and we should be glad to know more of it, but 
alas, there is no more, no Ladhamia, or other species, of that 
name, no synonym, nothing in the index. Perhaps it is an error 
for fusca? No, there is a Stemonitis, and an Arcyria, of that 
name, but no Badhamia. 
There are a few remarks which may become classic. Here are 
two mild samples: ‘‘ Sometimes two or three sporangia are seated 
on a common stem, forming a plasmodiocarp.’’ The following 
concerns Fuligo varians: . ‘In the plasmodium condition often oc- 
curring amongst dead leaves as a bright yellow soft moss.’’ 
Why argue longer about the affinities of the group ? 
Index to Recent Literature Relating to American Botany. 
Aganisia tonoptera (Bot. Mag. t. 7270). _ . 
Agave angustissima, J. N. Rose (Gard. and For. vi. 5, 6; illus- 
trated). ne 
