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Mycoloj/icdl Bidhtiii Xo. 14 



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-Hexrt Holt & Co. PrBLisnERS.^It lias recently been announced that 

 this firm (Xew Tork) are now the publishers of Atkinson's Mushrooms. The 

 price is $3.00, (by mail |3.23). This notice is to correct the statement 

 in an early Xo. of the Bulletin that the author was th? publisher. 



Colored Illustrations. — We are convinced that the most valuable 

 representations of Mushrooms are the photographic ones, not the colored 

 plates; of course both are to be desired — but rein on the former rather than 

 the latter. Poor ones, whether photos or paintings, ought not to l)e tolerated 

 — at any rate not used. ••Put no trust in color" a great botanist said over 

 a century ago — colors are not always a stable affair. Init the minute anatom- 

 ical characters can be relied cm. 



Am-a-ni-ta. — The Mushrooms of this genus, some of them deadly poison- 

 ous, include two or three dozen kinds, with white gills and white spores. 

 They may be positively known l)y the presence (seen in the early stages of 

 developrient) of a ro/-rrt and a i-cil. The YoL-VAis the sae-like portion or cup 

 below the surface of the soil, out of the top of which the cap and stem push. 

 This is shown in all of our Figures. Look carcfidhj for /^ when getting 

 specimens. It is called in some of the books, nnirersaJ veil — better under- 

 btood if the plants are seen in the "button" stage. The Veil, sometimes call- 

 ed the partial veil, is very ccmspicuous in these Mushrooms, shown in the 

 Figures immediately under the cap — in fact it was attached to the cap before 

 the latter expanded; but this structure remains cohering to the stem, ringlike 

 ■ — hence it is called the un-nu-lus, or ring. 



Cdn'i'otion. — Aofordiiiir to Professor Morgan, Tvho kiutllv coinmuuicatfd with me on the subject, 

 Fig. 4'^. Chivaria pyxiilata (M.ve. Bull. p. 49) should ,lie cliauged to Cla-va'ri-a cor-o-na'-ta ''Re- 

 semliliiii;- ill t'onii tlic i)n'i-i'c(ling, but a distinct species." Fig. 49 (p 51) is not Copriuus micaceus, but 

 Psath-ij-reV-hi dh-snn-i-iHr-tn.^ 



