Mycological Bulletin 



Nos. 59-60 



JV. A. KcUcrman, Ph. D., Ohio State University LIBRARY 



Columbus, June, 1906 NEW YOPkT 



* BOTANICAL 



T?IE EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR. Garden. 



Appreciation. — Some appreciative letters have been received 

 Ircm subscribers relative to the improved appearance of the Bul- 

 r.KTiN, and for these, sincere thanks are hereby returned. I can 

 not forego the pleasure of allowing others to enjoy with me this 

 portion of one of the letters received : "The little Bulletin is 

 filling a place in botanical literature hitherto wdiolly unoccupied. 

 i\ow as you Svax fat,' do not change the nature of the publication. 

 If you feel like moving up into the field of 'scientific mycology,' 

 }ou will leave behind the people for whom' it was designed, and 

 they would then have nothing — just as they had nothing of the 

 lind before the Bulletin was started-.* Keep it along the present 

 line." 



Acknowledgments — I have to thank ]\Iiss Hyde and Messrs. 

 Hard and Smith for both interesting articles and illustrations of 

 striking mushrooms contained in this Number. 



More P.\rticulars. — I can add that a short quotation will be 

 found from Dr. Harshberger on p. 22, relative to the Peziza on 

 which Mr. Smith discourses. It will be noted, too, that a pen 

 and ink sketch of Mr. Hard's subject (Gyromitra esculenta) w^as 

 published on p. 227. The half-tone in this Number alniost does 

 justice to the fine specimen. Miss Hide's \'erpa is not found 

 every day, and we are fortunate in having been able to photograph 

 tlie specimens which she brought us. 



Strobilomvces. — This peculiar tube-bearing mushroom was 

 illustrated on p. 100. and now Mr. A. P. Lane, Milwaukee. Wis- 

 consin, sends us a photograph of dry specimens (Fig. 189). which 

 can very appropriately find place here. See p. 240. 



ABOUT GYROMITR.\ ESCULENT.A Fr. 

 M. E. Hard. 



Gjroir.itra pxtts a irnch wrinkled hood. There are seven species i-i 

 this genus. It frequently grows very large, as the specimen in Figure 184 

 will indicpte, wbich is cicht inches hi^^h ard five inches across the cap. 

 This was forrd in the woods near Chiliicothe. 



The cap is often rounded and regular as in the specimen photographed, 

 hut frequently it is deeply lohed ard very irregular, gyrosc-vvrinklcd, bay 

 red, hollow, white wit'Mn, unever. 



The stem is white, stout, sti'fTed or hollow, covered with a mealy 

 substance; it is two to throe inches long. 



The spores are elliptical, hinuclerite, yellow, 20-22 mic. long. 



