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In Grevillea (4), 1878, a further record reads thus: 



" Cauloglossum transversale Fr. — Rav. Fung. Amer. No. 13. In 

 moist woods. Gainesville, Florida." M. C. Cooke. 



In the Curtis Herbarium at Harvard University the species is repre- 

 sented by the following specimens : " Cauloglossum transversarium. ad. 

 terrain arenosam ad margines sylvarum Nov. 1846 : Wilmington, N. C." 

 " Secotium transversarium B. & C, Tuskegee, Ala., aestate, 1853, 

 Beaumont (31)." " Cauloglossum transversarium / Pinetis arenosis. 

 N. Cesaraea, C. F. Austin (166)." " Cauloglossum transversarium 

 Fr., Santee Canal, S. C, Ravenel." 



In the Ellis Herbarium at the New York Botanical Gardens is a 

 specimen of Cauloglossum transversarium collected near Wilmington, 

 North Carolina, in November, 1880, by Dr. Tbos. F. Woods. In a 

 letter * Dr. Woods says, " It grows along the moist margins of a mill- 

 pond near Wilmington in a loamy soil under thin undergrowth." 



C. L. Shear (27) in an article published in the Asa Gray Bulletin, 

 1899, practically repeats the early description of Bosc, having obtained 

 no new data or specimens upon which to work. He has, however, 

 taken the generic description from that of Zobel (29) in Corda, 

 which was a modification of Greville's description made to suit C. 

 aeggptlacum, a form entirely different from C. transversarium, so that 

 as a result Mr. Shear really attributes to C. transversarium some 

 characters which it distinctly does not possess, as " basidia (?) stellate- 

 glomerate " and " base (of stipe) clothed with the rudiment of the volva, 

 which is incomplete and coriaceous." 



The last record concerning it which I have at hand is that of Dr. 

 Thaxter in 1897 at Eustis, Florida. Dr. Thaxter's notes read as 

 follows: "abundant material was found growing out of the bases of 

 living or dead trees or upon rotten stumps or fallen logs of Pinus 

 2Jalustris Mill., or among rubbish on the ground close by. When 

 young the gleba is dirty gamboge yellow ; when exposed by injury be- 

 coming dirty olive brown, eventually dark. Externally dirty brownish 

 or buff yellow. Stem nearly white." 



An examination of all the records obtainable thus indicates that the 

 plant under consideration is identical with the L. transversarium of 

 Bosc, and it is further evident that its reference by Fries to Caulo- 

 glossum was incorrect, since the last mentioned genus including its 



* For the quotation from this letter and a portion of one of Dr. Woods's specimen i 

 I am indebted to Prof. F. S. Earle of the N. Y. Bot. Card. 



