September, 1906] 



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NOTES FROM MUSHROOM LITERATURE III. 



IV. A. Kellerman. 

 Panaeolus retikugis. — Some observations on the Rate of Growth of 

 Panaeolus retirugis are published in the August number of Torreya, 1906. 

 'I hese were carried out in the oahn-house of the Cornell University con- 

 servatory by Gertrude E. Douglas, in }klarch of this year. We make the 

 following extracts frcni her interesting account. 



IK- ~'"1. Pu-LY'i'i>ms ii;> ia'-ri-is. A very coniiiiuii woixly I'olypore tliat 



grows on Black Locust trees. In his revision of the species of the 



family I'olyporaceae W. A. Murrill has given to this plant the new 

 >;eiicric name of I'\'-ro-t<o-ly-po-ru.i. 



