MYCOLOGICAL JOKES." I do not know what No. 3 are unless they prove 

 to be puff balls. I found them near other puff balls, so send them along. They 

 grew singly and in a group of three, glaring white, very viscid, white inside and 

 intensely bitter to the slightest taste. They were one half larger than when 

 dried. Found September gth, 1906, on lawn." Specimens No. 3 are gelatin 

 coated quinine pills. I at first thought my correspondent sent them as a catch 

 for the purpose of tripping me, but am convinced now she was honestly mis- 

 taken in thinking they were " puff balls." 



Another correspondent sent me a box of cigars, with the suggestion that 

 they were probably a new species of phalloid, and wanted me to give them a 

 name. I did not comply with the latter request, but I took pleasure in smoking 

 the cigars. 



Another sent me a candy specimen of Boletus, very life-like, and stated he was 

 unable to determine it. I turned it over to my friend Professor McGinty, and he 

 has named it " Boletus saccharinus McGinty, new species." I think the "diag- 

 nosis" has not yet been published. 



Fig. 195. LYCOPERDON PIRIFORME. 



LYCOPERDON PIRIFORME. We publish the above photograph from E. 

 E. Bogue, Michigan, as it impresses us as representing unusually well the habits 

 of the common Lyroperdon piriforme. You are pretty safe in referring the "puff 

 balls" that you find growing in this manner on an old stump or log to Lycoper- 

 don piriforme. 



THE GENUS CYPELLOMYCES. Professor Patouillard writes me: "1 

 have read your note on the Cypellomyces. This genus is not different from 

 Phellonna, and the figure given of the basidia and spores represents inaccurate 

 observation." 



As I stated in my review of the article, I do not believe any Gastromycetes 

 produces spores such as Spegaxxini shows. I can not see how the science of 

 mycology is advanced by the production of these imaginary pictures for the 

 purpose of bolstering up alleged " new species " and " new genera." 



specie? 

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