unmixed with pedicels. We have named this plant "seventh" in re- 

 minder of the fact that it belongs to the seventh section of a recent 



Fig. 142. 



paper on the genus Lycoperdon, and is the only species we have 

 seen (and we have seen all so included) that does belong there. 



Save as to absence of sterile base, the 

 plants in the grosser characters are the 

 same as Lycoperdon fuscum. 



Specimens collected at Quito, 

 Ecuador, by Rev. L. Mille, S. J. 



In evidence that the plants of 

 South America are mainly the same 

 as those of the remainder of the 

 world, Rev. Mille sends also Calvatia 

 lilacina, Lycoperdon cruciatum, Lyco- 

 perdon polymorphum and Lycoperdon 

 Wrightii ( !!), and Theodore Stuckert 

 (Argentina) sends Geaster mammosus, 

 Myriostoma coliformis, Lycoperdon 

 cruciatum and Cyathus stercoreus. 

 All the above are well-known species 

 of Europe and America. 



Fig. 143. 



PRIORITY CHANGES. 



We read in the last volume of Saccardo that it is proposed to 

 change "Strobilomyces pallescens, Cooke and Massee" to "Strobil- 

 omyces excavatus (Kalch.) Hennings" because Kalchbrenner called 

 an Australian species of Strobilomyces "Secotium excavatum." We do 

 not question the truth of it, in fact we can confirm it as far as the generic 

 question is involved, for we have seen the "type" specimen. But 

 when Kalchbrenner called a Strobilomyces a Secotium he blundered 



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