BOTAMCAL GAZETTE. 27.1. 



well as among the grasses (see pajje 267). It may save some mis- 

 apprehension of Dr. Mueller's own work to add that this is evidently 

 one of those sins not unusually committed by printers in the make up 

 of pages, and which so often leads authors to pray heartily that the 

 printer may be forgiven. This is apparent from other errors on the 

 same page, Andropogon being wedged in between different species of 

 Ptilotus, and some species of Gomphrena being placed both above and 

 below Ftilotus, instead of all in one sequence as they should be. — 

 Thos. Meehan. 



Notes from Dayton. — Conobea multifida. — in your cata- 

 logue of Indiana plant's, I notice the remark, "leaves m threes." I 

 have collected tliis plant in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and have 

 generally found the leaves arranged ternately, although occasionally 

 the binate type was also found. 



Nes.* V VERT[CiLLATA. — Besides finding the leaves opposite and 

 whorled, I have also seen them arranged alternately. The quarnate 

 arrangement of leaves is frequently seen in whorls close to the ground. 

 The ternate, in whorls subtending the flower clusters; the binate, on 

 non-flowering branches ; and the alternate, in the last shoots of the 

 season. — August F. Foerste. 



New Species of Funiz;!, by Charles H. Peck. — PoLYPORUS 

 AP.ORTivus. — Pileus small, plane or centrally depressed, often de- 

 formed or wanting, whitish or alutaceous, the superior stratum soft 

 and spongy, composed of a compact tomentum, the inferior firm, 

 subcorky, continuous with the central substance of the stem; pores 

 small, unequal, decurrent, whitish, with thin dentate or lacerated dis- 

 sepiments; stems central, irregular, sometimes short or obsolete, cen- 

 trally firm, externally soft, spongy-tomentose ; spores globose or 

 brondly obovate, .0002 — .0003 of an inch long, generally containing 

 a single large nucleus. 



•'Ground under an elm tree." Illinois. /. Wolf. Communi- 

 cated by Ffif. S. A. Forbes. 



Var. subglolwsiis. Plant consisting of a depressed or subglobose 

 mass, having the stem very short or obsolete, the central substance 

 marked by concentric zones and the surface everywhere porous. 



"Bark of an old hickory log." Mt. Carmel, Illinois. /. 

 Schncck, M. D. 



This curious Polyporus appears to belong to the section Mesopus, 

 Division Spongiosa, and to be related to F. biennis. The specimens 

 sent me are scarcely more than an inch or an inch and ahalf in diameter, 

 and none of them seem to be well developed, although affording spores 

 in great abundance. More specimens are desirable. 



Trametes Peckii Kalchbrenner in lift. — "Pileo suberoso, dimid- 

 iato, sessili, subdecurrente, hirsuto. azono, ferrugineo-fusco, demum 

 expallente, margine acuto ; poris majusculis, rotundato angulatis, 

 pileo subconcoloribus vel seniofuscescentibus; substantia lignei coloris. 



A priore (An American form of Trametes Trogii B. ) abunde dif- 

 ferthirsutie longiore, minus scabra, poris multo majoribus, obscurior- 

 ibus, etc." 



