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walls of the peridiuni, wliicli scwin breaks, miviui^' the insects a 

 chance to scatter the spores. This seems to be done largely by 

 thes and the rove beetle. 



The ])lants \ar\- somewhat in size, from three-fourths inches 

 to two inches in length, and from one-hall to one inch in width. 

 The color is light ])ink, ])nrple or a little la\-en(ler in some places. 



I have found them in onl\' one localitw and that was in a 

 rich, shady nook near the Cuxahoga ri\-er. ddiey grew on the 

 ground or on very much decayed wood, with an abundance of 

 white m\celial threads attached to their base. Twenty or thirty 

 grew close together, but not touching each other. 



.xorivs I'RoAi .Mi'siiKooM 1 jtJ':rati"ke, xr. 



W. A. KI'.I.I.I'.KM.W X. 



Careful stud\' of s])ecies we know, or pretend to know, is 

 urgentK' called for todaw h'rom the current literature i)ertain- 

 ing to mushrooms we have selected the valuable comments on 

 Le])iotas b\- Professor lieardslee, which he studied in Sweden 

 and recorded in a recent number of the lournal of Mycology. 

 'Hie article is here re])()rted in full : 



"Till'. ki'.i'ioTAS oi' .Swp:i)i:x.- -The following notes on the 

 ^])ecies of Lei)iota collected in .Sweden 1)\ .Mr. C '. ( i. Lloyd and 

 the writer during the summer of lixi.") ina_\- be of interest in con- 

 neclion with the papers ujjon this genus which are ai:)])earing in 

 the Journal. 



" rile number of si)ecies collected was not large, i)robabl\' 

 ])artl\' at least because work was necessarih' stop])ed the first 

 w (.'(.'k of September. Doubtless other s])ecies might have been 

 fonnd in the same collecting grotnids if work had continued a 

 few weeks longer. The s])ecies detected were six in number, 

 1,. ])rocera, naucina, rhacodes, cristata, melulaes])ora, and amian- 

 tliina. ( )f Le])iota i)roci'ra little need be said. It was found in 

 tlu' same Mirroundings in whit-h il would have appeared in the 

 I'nited States and agreed with our plant in e\'er\- detail. There 

 is, howe\-er, food fr)r retlection in the lacl that this liiU' S])ecies 

 which lends itself so well to description and illustration that it is 

 easily recogni/able, e\-en b\ the amateni', has been rt'i)orted from 

 so many stations and is known to ha\e >o wide a distribution. 

 Is it not at least possible that some of its relatives are also widely 

 distributed, but owing to the greater difficulty of their recogni- 

 tion, are not so widelv recognized? It is hard for one whose 

 \icws (111 'new s])ecies" are perhaps a littk- 'cranky' to account 



