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the same diameter throughout, but with rounded and scaly ends, and is 

 altogether too meagre a drawing to admit of any definite determination. 

 It is probably the phalloid, Cynophallus caninus. 



The third citation, Nees (23), refers merely to a copy of Bosc's 

 figure under the name Lycoperdon transversarium Bosc. 



Cionium Carolmense, which is further referred to by Fries as a 

 synonym, is described by Sprengel (28) as follows : " GloJiiuvi caro- 

 I'uiense, sessile oblongum irregulare glabrura, columella elongata. Caro- 

 litia (Lycoperdon transversarium Bosc)." The characters of Cionium, 

 however, as given by Link (17) who instituted the genus, do not 

 justify Sprengel in making this reference, as is manifest from the 

 following description : " Cionium. Sporayigiurn subglobosum, aut dif- 

 forme. Peridiuvi simplex, viemhranaceum, ruinpens, squamulativv 

 fatiscens. Flocci intus versus basin adnati. Coluinella intra peri- 

 dium. Sporidia coacervata. 



" " Sporangium prima aetate molle. . . . Sporidia majuscula, globosa, 

 plerumque atra. Hujus loci Didymium complanatum, farinaceum." 



Finally the only reference to the name Herculea is that of Fries (9), 

 where he simply states that he had, in preparing his manuscript, called 

 the genus containing the species " elatum " and " transversarium " Her- 

 culea, but that Greville had forestalled him by the publication of the 

 name Caidoglossum, which should stand. 



Li the Genera Plautarum, 183G, Endlicher enumerates among the 

 Gastromycetes Caidor/lossum t7'ansversariuvi Fries. ; while Fries again 

 in 1845, writing on the vegetation of Scandinavia, mentions Caidoglos- 

 sitm Fr. under the Podaxinei, a group of the Lycoperdaceae. lie places 

 the name in brackets, intending doubtless to indicate that it is not found 

 in Scandinavia. 



In the Vegetable Kingdom, 1853, John Liudley includes Cauloglos- 

 suin Fr. under the Podaxinei. 



Another and fuller record by Fries (12) is to be found in the Nov. 

 Symb. Mycol. 1857: '■'■ Cauloglossum, transversarium. S. M. Ill, 

 I». Gl. In Carolina, Curtis, et in Mexico. Secundum liaec sjjecimina 

 juvenilia a Seeotio hoc genus tantuni differt peridio clavato et stipite 

 contiguo, observante jam Berkeleyo. Ilabitu et facie adoo exacte con- 

 veiiit cum C. eUUu, cxoleto modo lecto, ut de geuericu idciititato uou 

 dubitem." 



In Grcvillea (1), 1873, is the following record: 



" Cauloslossum transversarium Fr. Car. Inf. No. 2G7. In wet, 

 sandy places." Dull brownish yellow." M. J. Berkeley. 



