Mr. Thos. H. Norton, United States Cousui at Harput Turkev 

 (now consul to Smyrna, Turkey), sends a collection, valuable chiefly as an 

 evidence of his good intentions to aid me in the work. Unfortunately it 

 consists mostly of dried agarics and other families that I do not study Mv 

 sincere thanks are extended to my friend, Professor Norton, for the trouble 

 he has taken in the matter. 



Rev. A. Boulomoy, Syria, sends me Lycogala flavofuscum, Daldinea 

 concentrica, Scleroderma cepa, Geaster. hygrometricus, a form of Sclero- 

 derma aurantium, not exactly the same as occurs in Europe and the United 

 States; also a form of Scleroderma cepa, differing from the form that oc 

 curs in Europe by having the base prolonged into a stipe almost two 

 inches long. 



Mr. H. E. Cox, Jamaica, a dried specimen of Phallus phalloidea 

 Mr. Geo. S. Jenman, British Guyana, a specimen of Cyathus in 

 alcohol. 



Mr. J. Medley Wood, Natal, sends a Lycoperdon that seems to be 

 restricted to Africa. It is a Lycoperdon agreeing with Lycoperdon crucia- 

 tum ,n everything except the color of the gleba, which is purplish It has 

 received certainly two, and probably three, names. Lycoperdon djurensis 

 Lycoperdon entotephrum (Bull. Soc. Myc. 02-38) are surely the 

 plant; also, I think, probably Lycoperdon natalense (J. R Mic Soc 

 87-709). At the time I examined the latter I thought it was Lycoperdon 

 pratense (a very closely related species), which I have since learned is the 

 common species in South Africa ; hence I presume this will turn out to 

 be the same. 



Mr. E. W. Foster, Lagos, sends Calvatia lilacina, which, notwith- 

 iing it is a common species in many countries of the world, is of much 

 merest in extending our knowledge of the distribution of this species 



Mr. Wm. Gollan, British India, sends a number of interesting 

 plants which I have not had time to study in detail. 



Rev. J. Rick, Brazil, sends three packages. I have as yet had time 



to merely look through them. They will prove most interesting to study 



Among others I note a curious Geaster, the exoperidium covered with 



arse, stngose hairs such as is possessed by no known species. I shall call 



it Geaster Rickei. 



I beg to advise my friends and correspondents that I shall spend the 



next four months in the woods in Sweden, and shall return to Paris about 



mber tst. [ expect then to publish in detail regarding the numerous 



terestmg speamens with which I have been, and may in the meantime 



be, favored by my correspondents. 



C. G. LLOYD, 



107 BOULEVARD ST. MICHEL, 



PARIS, FRANCE. 



