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and which should therefore be dropped completely and no longer 
allowed to encumber the mycological literature. 
The first certainly identifiable name applied to the plant under 
consideration is the one adopted in the present paper. While 
Schweinitz’s type, from North Carolina, is missing from his her- 
barium, there is a specimen marked ‘‘rotten wood. Beth.’’ under 
the name ‘‘ Lemalis pulla B nigro-olivascens Schw. No. 1089.”’ This 
label involves a curious switching of names and an error in spelling 
as follows: Peziza nigro-olivacea L. v. S. was included by Fries in 
his Systema as “Patellaria pulla B nigro-olivacea.”” In 1834, 
Schweinitz transferred the species to the genus Lemalis, and 
changed the specific name so that it appeared as ‘“‘1089. 4. L. 
rufo-olivacea, L. v. S., Syn. Car. 1220, Peziza nigro-olivacea; Salem 
“et Bethlehem differt specifice a priori [L. pulla Fr.]’’. At a later 
date, Dr. Michener, in mounting and arranging Schweinitz’s fungi, 
restored the original specific name (nigro-olivacea) to the label, 
but misspelled it ‘ igro-olivascens.”’ The presence of numbers and 
references in each case leaves no doubt that the specimen now in 
the Schweinitzian Herbarium is the one referred to in 1834 as from 
Bethlehem. 
Although Fries stated that he had seen a specimen of Pesziza 
nigro-olivacea, there seems to be no Schweinitzian material so 
labeled in the Friesian Herbarium, at Upsala. However, there is a 
specimen called ‘‘ Lemalis rufo-olivacea Schw.,’’ from Curtis, as well 
as one marked “ Peziza applanata ex herb. Schweinitz.’’ While 
both are typical Catinella nigro-olivacea, the latter is quite dif- 
ferent from the specimen in Schweinitz’s own herbarium called 
P. applanata. 
In 1830, Fries described as Bulgaria nigrita a plant collected 
in Russia by Weinmann. So far as the writer can discover, no 
more recent collection has been referred to this species, which has 
remained practically unknown for nearly a century. In the 
Friesian Herbarium is a specimen marked “Bulgaria nigrita, 
Petersburg,” in Elias Fries’s own hand, which is in all probability 
the original type. When the writer saw it, in 1904, he was at once 
impressed with its gross resemblance to the American plant. Sub- 
sequent microscopical examination removed all doubts as to their 
specific identity. 
