Mycological Bulletin 



No. 81 



W. A. KcUcnnau, Ph. P., Ohio State Uiiiz't'isity. 



Colli mhiix, Oliio, ScptcDibcy, l!»(l?. 



Last year a paper was piil:)lished in the Alenioirs of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club, New York, by H. J. Banker, a student of the 

 Hydnums. The treatment amateurs at least would regard as revo- 

 lutionary, and this suggests that a number of the Bulletin be de- 

 voted to the subject as there presented. No illustrations were 

 included in the paper. The substance is given below. 



NOTES FROM MUSHROOM LITERATURE. VTL 



W. A. KELLERMAN. 



The paper that will he discussed here is entitled: A Cont'-ibntion to 

 a Revision of the North American Uydnaceae, In- Howard James Banker. 

 It was ])ul)lishcd as No. 2, Vol. 12, of the Memoirs of the Torrey Botani- 

 cal Club. 



Professor Banker is the lirst American botanist to take a hand in 

 the splittinj^; u]) of the old genus llydnitm. Several luiropean mycologists 

 have undertaken the task, some of their work being accepted in the 

 paper under discussion. 



After this carving out of the Einnaean ^enus llydnum the numerous 

 genera, vvliich Professor Banker recognizes, there remain only six of the 

 .\merican species, namely llydiiuiii albi'-ma^inim, ilydmim album, Hydiiiiiii 

 rcl'ondum. Ilyduum cacspitosiiiit, Ilydmini •n'ashiiiiitoiiiauiiin and Ilydiiiim 

 sublaiiicllosion. 



A "llydnum" then to be a true Uydiiidii. must be terrestrial, iiieso- 

 f^odous \i. e., with a stipe or stem attached at the tniddle of the pileus], 

 and fleshy; the plants are white, red or yellow; and the spores pre smooth, 

 not roughened. 



A list is here compiled to show the new names proposed for the 

 North American species : 



