as badly as if he had called an Edam cheese a big red apple. We fail 

 to see that such work as that has any claim on science, and would 

 be just as willing to change the name of a Strobilomyces on that 

 account as we would be to change the name of Bovista pila because 

 the Piute Indians call it Dza-wahp-abe-sah. Saccardo, it can be said 

 much to his credit, does not usually pay much attention to such 

 changes. He dismisses the entire work of Mr. Murrill with a foot- 

 note, "He has taken anew and wrongly many old, indefinite, hetero- 

 geneous names, entirely unemployed." But it seems that with Sac- 

 cardo name- juggling, like kissing, goes very much by favor. If it 

 is done at New York (example, Cyathia, Granularia and many 

 others), or at Kew (example, Calostoma) or at Cambridge (example, 

 Rhopalogaster) it is all wrong. But if it is done in Germany (ex- 

 ample, Disciseda) or in Switzerland (example, Astraeus stellatus) 

 it is all right. To my mind it is all equally bad, and I am opposed to 

 it on principle, not on personal grounds, and I would not accept a name 

 proposed by my best friend on earth if it smacked of name- juggling. 



NOTELETS. 



TYLOSTOMA EXASPERATUM. We have given its habitat in our re- 

 cent pamphlet as "brandies and rotten wood" (sonietimes in the ground). 

 We concluded that it grew in the ground from examination of specimens I'mm 

 Rev. J. Rick, Brazil. He writes us that when it grows in the ground it is always 

 attached to buried sticks. Tylostoma exasperatum is the only species < well 

 known) that is truly epixylous. 



THE GENUS PHELLORINA. This genus belongs to the Tylostomaa-ae 

 family, but was omitted from our recent pamphlet through oversight. We know 

 but two species, however, and both were considered and illustrated in our 

 Australian pamphlet. The genus Phcllorina occurs in the United Statex in 

 lexas and Southern California, but no specimens have been seen by me on 

 which I could pass an opinion. Phellorina Californica was based on tin- mer- 

 est remnant of an old wintered peridium, from which nothing definite could be 

 be told. Spegazzini has recently described a "new species" of "Xylopodium" 

 from South America. He would do mycology a better turn if he would explain 

 how 'Xylopodium" differs from Phellorina. I am sure nobody else know- anv 

 difference. 



BOVISTELLA DOMINICENSIS.-On page 283, Mycological Notes, 

 we stated that we did not think the species had been published. We ha\. 

 found the publication, Grev. 17-60. It has apparently escaped Saccardo's sweep 

 net. 



CORRECTION. On page 19 of the recent "Tylostomeae" the word "waxy" 

 should be "wavy. 



LYCOPERDON MISSOURI EXSE.-When Trclease published this "new , 

 species, which is well known now as Calvatia craniiformis, Cooke published 

 (Grev 17-58) that it was a synonym for Calvatia lilacina (Lycoperdon lila- 

 inum;. 1 his caused considerable amusement in the United S'tates, where it I 

 was known that T release's species has olive spores and Calvatia lilacina has . 

 purple spores. Yet acording to the specimen that Trelease sent to England, |. 

 Cooke was right for this specimen is surely Calvatia lilacina. It nnlv shows jj 

 how easy it is to be right and wrong at the' same time. 



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