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Dead bass wood. Sheboygan, Wisconsin. J. ,/. Brown. 



Lycoperdon Frostii. — Peridium subglobose, one to two inches broad, 

 generally narrowed below into a short stem-like base, echinate or 

 shaggy with long stout whitish spines which are generally curved or 

 stellately united and which at length fall off and leave the peridium 

 brown and smooth; capillitium and spores purplish-brown ; spores 

 globose, rough, .0001G-.0002 of an inch in diameter, intermingled with 

 numerous short slender fragmentary filaments. 



Ground in meadows. Brattleborough, Vermont. August and Sep- 

 tember. C. C. Frost. 



This species is related to L. consteUatum., but the spines are longer 

 and of a paler color and the denuded peridium is smooth, not reticu- 

 lated as in that species. It is respectfully dedicated to its discoverer. 



Hypomyces Banningii. — Subiculum white, then sordid; perithecia 

 crowded, ovate, with a papilliform ostiolum, pale amber or honey 

 color; asci slender, C3dindrical ; spores uniseriate, oblong fusiform, 

 white in the mass, .0012-.0015 of an inch long, .0001G-.0002 broad. 



Decaying fungi, apparently some Lactarius. Baltimore, Md. Miss 

 M. E. Banning. 



The spores in the specimens are simple, but they may possibly be- 

 come uniseptate when old. 



Some Florida Ferns. — In the Torrey Botanical Bulletin for Sep- 

 tember, 1877, I reported Acrostichum aurcurn, L., as growing twenty 

 miles south of St. Augustine ; and Polypodium Plunmla., H. B. K., four- 

 teen miles from St. Augustine, and also at Daytona on the Halifax 

 River. Here I also found Adiantum Capillus- Veneris, L. 



About St. Augustine I collect Blechnnm serridatum, Michx., Polypo- 

 dium aureum, L., P. incanum, Swz., Vittaria liiieata, Swartz, Pteris 

 aquilina, var. caudata, Woodivardia aagustifolia, Smith (which fruits 

 freely here), ]V. Virginica, Willd., Asplenium ebeneuvi, Alton, Aspidi- 

 um patens, Swartz, A. Floridanum, Chapm., Onoclea seiisibilis, L., Os- 

 munda regalis, L. and 0. cinnamoviea, L. These ferns fruit finely here, 

 the latter sometimes two or three times a year. — Mary C. Reynolds, 

 St. Augustine, Fla. 



N. A. Ferns. — Mr. Geo. E. Davenport has now in the hands of 

 the printer his Catalogue of North American Ferns. It is a work 

 that every fern lover in the United States should have, and we hope 

 that the readers of the Gazette will encourge Mr. Davenport in this 

 undertaking and promptly send on their names as subscribers. Copious 



