A MARE'S NEST THAT PROVED INTERESTING. 



conditions. The usual immature specimens picked up after t lie P lant * *JP? 

 on the surface of the ground have passed the early deliquescent stages, and this 

 thread like tissue probably disappears before the plants emerge from the ground. 

 S^SSSSSlSi no't P rov P e P to be a novelty, but what is of more importance 

 to my mind it demonstrates a new fact about an old genus-that is-new t< 



NOTELETS. 



SPECIMENS I saw a specimen in a " show " department of a 

 in Europe labeled "Geaster radicans, Berk., the only collection ever 

 made in Europe." The statement is as nearly correct as many of t 

 specimens in the museums, neither statement being true The specii en is 

 Geaster fornicatus with no relation to Geaster radicans, and Geaster radicans, 

 Berk." (viz. Geaster Welwitchii), has been collected in Europe. 



CONGRATULATlONS-are in order to Professor Massee who has just 

 written an interesting book entitled "A Text Book of Fungi. It ^ well ritten, 

 well illustrated, and full of information, and presents a general resume : of tl 

 fungus field in a better and more entertaining manner than any book th 

 previously appeared in English. Berkeley's "Cryptogamic Botany _ was too 

 technical Cooke's "Introduction" was a decided improvement and Massee sis 

 the best of all. I am particularly glad to note that in not a single instance h 

 Professor Massee founVi it necessary to add a personal advertisement to the name 

 of a plant. A book devoted to information about fungi and not interested u 

 graphical puffs of those who devote their energies to juggling the name 

 plants, is a decided novelty. 



THE VIENNA RULES In reply to a request for details as to the Vienna 

 Rules, we have not paid much attention to them. However, the sum and sub- 

 stance is-" We, the Germans, we are the people. What we do is right and what 

 we don't do is wrong. Engler and Prautl is the new Gospel and Alia, 

 praised." Is it any wonder that our American contingent that went over to pull 

 through Kuntzeism and found themselves in such a hopeless minority, an 

 so badly snubbed, came home and seceded? 



"PIDGIN LATIN," p. 340, is wisdom itself. The language a man can i 

 best he can not use too well when he essays to describe new species Some 

 descriptions in the describer's vernacular are difficult enough to apply iiw 

 difficulty would be increased by doing poor mother-tongue into poorer Lati 

 J. D., Canada. 



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