thus far reached us. We have a number of additional alcoholic spec- 

 imens in our museum at Cincinnati, but the list is not available here 

 in Paris. 



SPECIMENS IN OUR COLLECTION. 



ASERCE HOOKERI, Nezu Zealand, Miss Jessie Dunn. 



CLATHRUS CIBARIUS, A erf Zealand, Miss Jessie Dunn. 



CLATHRUS CRISPUS, Jamaica, Miss Barrett. 



CLATHRUS CANCELLATUS, Portugal, Rev. Torrend ; Italy, M. Bezzi ; France, 

 L. Rolland; Spain, T. de Aranzadi. 



CLATHRUS GRACILIS, Australia, J. T. Paul, F. Reader. 



KALCHBRENNERA CORALLOCEPHALA, South Africa,]. M. Wood. 



LATERNEA COLUMNATA, Florida, C. E. Pleas. 



LATERNEA PUSILLA, Jamaica, W. Jekyll. 



MUTINUS CANINUS, Canada, Jas. Fletcher ; Ireland, Greenwood Pirn ; Ger- 

 many, C. Engelke, Otto Japp. 



MUTINUS ELEGANS, Cincinnati, C. G. Lloyd. 



MUTINUS RAVENELII (?), New Jersey, E. B. Sterling. 



PHALLOGASTER SACCATUS, Ohio, C. G. Lloyd, and also at Eg/on, W. I 'a. 



PHALLUS AURANTIACUS, Hawaii, D. D. Baldwin. 



PHALLUS DUPLICATUS, Iowa, L. R. Waldron ; Ohio, C. G. Lloyd. 



PHALLUS INDUSIATUS, Jamaica, H. E. Cox, Miss Barret; Samoa, C. G. Lloyd. 



PHALLUS IMPERIALIS, Italv, M. Bezzi; Colorado, E. B. Sterling; Texas, W. H. 

 Long, Jr.; California. L. G. Yates; Washington, D. C., F. J. Braendle. (NoTE. 

 Phallus imperialis is only a form of Phallus impudicus with pink volva, but it 

 appears to be the only form that occurs in the United States. In England it is a 

 very rare form and Prof. Massee tells me that while Phallus impudicus is a 

 very frequent plant in England, he has seen the form imperialis but once. Mon- 

 sieur Boudier tells me he notes a distinction in habitat and in odor of the two 

 plants at Paris.) 



PHALLUS RAVENELII, Pennsylvania, Wm. Herbst; Iowa, F. J. Fitzpatrick. 



PHALLUS RUBICUNDUS, Texas, W. H. Long, Jr. 



SIMBLUM spH^vROCEPHALUM, Nebraska, Rev. J. M. Bates. 



SIMBLUM TEXENSE, Terras, W. H. Long, Jr. 



THE COMMON BIRD'S-NEST FUNGI. 



We have just finished work on a monograph of the Xiclulariaceae. 

 As it embraces all known species, both rare and common, including' 

 many species found only in the tropics, we feel that it will be of less 

 interest to our general readers than an account of our common species 

 which every one meets. There are but four common species of bird's- 

 nest fungi, either in Europe or the United States, and as far as I 

 know and believe only five rare ones. Of the one hundred and sev- 

 enty-six specimens we have received from correspondents one hun- 

 dred and sixty-five belong to these four common species. We do not 

 include in the above summary Sphaerobolus stellatus, which although 

 it has the same general structure as the family, has but a single peri- 

 diole, and is not in the popular mind associated with bird's-nest fungi. 

 Every child knows the little cups that they liken to little birds' nests 

 filled with little eggs. In botanical language the cups or nests are 

 known as the peridium and the little eggs as peridioles. 1 



iThis is the term that I shall employ for them, though it is not strictly correct, the word 

 sporangioles being more frequently used. 



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