CATASTOMA SUBTERRANEUM An abundant collection 

 from Rev. Mille is exactly the same plant that grows in such great 

 abundance in our western country. It is evidently a common species 

 in South America. It was collected in Chile by Gaudichaud and 

 determined and published by Montagne as Lyeoperdon pusillum, after- 

 wards described by Patouillard as Bovista argillacea. It was col- 

 lected in Bolivia by Weddell and determined by Montagne as B< .vista 

 plumbea. It was brought from Patagonia by Darwin and called by 

 Berkeley Bovista cervina. What name Spegaazim calls it I do not 

 know, but he has undoubtedly discovered that it is a new species. I 

 always feel like apologizing every time I use the specific name subter- 

 raneiim as it is not subterranean, and it was the sixth specific name 

 under which it was described. I am forced to use it, however, to 

 avoid making a "new combination" (Cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 242). 



LYCOPERDOX \VRIGHTII.-Rev. Mille sends us tlie same 

 forms we have recorded from Africa (p. 271), with slightly rough 

 spores. This species is now known from North and South America, 

 Africa and Java, but has uetrr been collected in Europe. We have 

 also received a very similar (if not the same) species from British 

 India. 



NOTELETS. 



REDISCOVERY OF MITREMYCES ORIRUBER. Monsieur P. Hariot, 

 the curator of the museum at Paris, has submitted to me some specimens col- 

 lected by R. P. Farges at Tshen-Keon-Tin, China, which I find to be Mitremyces 

 oriruber. This is the second collection known, the original from the Straits 

 Settlement is at Kew. The species is known by the coarse, wart-like scales 

 (cfr. Plate 69) and the ghbosc spores. The Chinese form has spores about 

 12 mic. in diameter, which are smaller than in the type (15 to 17 mic.), but as 

 the plants are otherwise exactly the same I do not feel like basing a new name 

 on this spore variation. Mitremyces Ravenelii is also known from China. 



MYCENASTRUM CORIUM. J'ai commis une errcur (page 267) eft 

 annongant la redecouverte du Mycenastrum Corium a Neuilly (France). C'eit 

 en realite M. Rolland qui trotiva la plante et non M. Patouillard qui etait alors 

 dans le Jura. C'est ce dernier qui m'avait annonce cette decouverte : n'etant 

 pas aussi familier que je le voudrais avec la langue franchise parlee, u- n'ai 

 pas bien compris ses paroles et les ai inexactement rapportees. 



Je profite de 1'occasion pour annoncer que M. Ludwig a egalement trouve 

 le Mycenastrum Corium dans le Bois de Boulogne pres de Paris. 



MYCENASTRUM CORIUM AT WASHINGTON. Fred J. Braendle 

 has recently sent to the museum at Paris some specimens of Mycenastn 

 Corium from Washington, D. C. This species is quite common west of t 

 Mississippi, but rare east. I think this is the fifth station east of the Mi 

 that has come to my notice. It is a species that grows in many countr 

 Australia, Africa, Europe, South America, and has received names by 1< 

 workers in most of these countries, but no man can find a character to 

 tmguish one from another, and the species are all the same. Mr. Braendle st 

 it under the name Mycenastrum spinulosum, which is a local name for it it 

 the United States. 



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