sometimes vacuolated but generally homogeneous contents, 6-8x2^-3 mic., 

 occasionally 9 rnic. long. 



A solitary specimen growing in a garden among violets, near Melbourne, 

 Victoria, April, 1907. Forwarded by C. French, Jr. It had a very disagree- 

 able smell. Owing to its fragile nature one of the arms fell away and only 

 the arm to the right in the photograph shows the slender tip. 



THE RESULT OF KUNTZEISM. 



We have made the following summary of a recent paper by 

 Mr. Murrill: 



Number of juggled names 339 83% 



Number not juggled '. 70 17 '/, 



Number with "Murrill" added 332 Si% 



Number that escaped 77 ig% 



The full objects of the paper being set forth in the above sum- 

 mary, it is hardly worth while to comment on it, but we present 

 Professor Sydow's review in the Annales Mycologici to illustrate 

 how this line of work impresses European mycologists. 



"It is characteristic of this work that hardly a single species is enu- 

 merated under the name by which it had hitherto been known and used. The 

 reason for it lies principally in the fact that the heretofore accepted genera 

 are resolved into numerous small genera. The author differentiates between 

 not less than 66 genera of Polyporaceae, mostly differing from each other by 

 only such characteristics as heretofore were used to differentiate between 

 species. This procedure, on account of the extent to which it has been prac- 

 ticed by the author, will hardly meet with the approval of myrologists at large. 

 Futhermore, the author rigidly adheres to the principle of priority which fre- 

 quently causes, in addition to the change in the name of the genus, also one in 

 the name of the species ; thus about nine-tenths of all species mentioned 

 bear the name of "Murrill" as author. 



Mr. Murrill, by the simple process of inventing a lot of useless 

 "genera" and juggling many names of the host of (useless) "genera" 

 invented before him, adds his name (in his paper) to 332 out of the 

 409 species that he considers. Professor Sydow was justified, on the 

 face of it, in thinking this to be the main object of the paper/ Mr. 

 Murrill is not the first, but the worst, that ever engaged in this kind 

 of work, and the farce of the whole proceeding is, that it is put 

 forth under the guise of producing "stability" in nomenclature. The 

 only effect it will have will be to fatten the already overgrown and 

 unwieldy synonyms. 



A new Vireo. I note that Mr. Oberholser has found a new 

 Vireo close to "Vireo bellii bellii." Such nomenclature is enough 

 to give a man a "bellii bellii" ache. 



Asa matter of truth Mr. Murrill himself does not believe in such foolishness, nor does 

 any one else who has an elementary knowledge of polyporoid classification. The true ex- 

 planation comes under the head of "Economic Botany," that is, to Mr. Murrill. 



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