LETTER No. 19. 



Cincinnati, Ohio, January 1, 1908. 



List of specimens received from Europe and foreign countries since 

 the last report, November 1, 1907, and including a few crowded out of 

 Letter' No. 17. 



We list the plants here under the names as we have labeled them 

 in the museum at the time they were received. Some of the species received 

 from foreign countries, where the subject is little known, do not have 

 names or impress us as being marked forms or varieties of known species. 

 In these cases we think it is better to not specify the plants by definite 

 names until we make a comparative study of the subject in connection 

 with other forms known from these countries. 



A number of plants received from tropical countries belong to families 

 that we know very slightly as to their tropical species. The best we can 

 do in these cases is to indicate the genus and compare them to their 

 nearest allies in Europe and America. All such specimens are carefully 

 preserved and will come into use in our future studies. At present we 

 claim no critical knowledge as to tropical species, excepting as to the 

 Gastromycetes. 



I beg to thank my correspondents for the very liberal contributions 

 they are making to the museum. All specimens received are carefully 

 labeled and systematically preserved. My publications are sent to those 

 who favor me with specimens, and I trust are a partial return for their 

 trouble. 



Owing to the uncertainty of American foreign mails I would prefer 

 foreign species be sent to my Paris address as follows. They will reach me 

 more surely, but with some delay. 



C. G. LLOYD, 

 (Klincksieck) No. 3 rue Corneille (Odeon), 



Paris, VI, France. 



Continued From Letter No. 17. 



PETCH, T., Ceylon:. 



Bovistella aspera (Nice specimens. These have a slight sterile base. 

 I am now convinced that Berkeley's conspurcatum and citrinum, both surely 

 the same, are old specimens after the cortex has fallen), Lycoperdopsis arcy- 

 rioides (A wonderfully good genus, recently described, Monsunia, page 158. 

 from Java. These are the first specimens I have ever received excepting a 

 small portion of the type kindly given me by Dr. Hennings), Nidularia 

 unnamed ("Part of Berkeley's Ceylonese specimen of Nidularia Duriaeana." 

 This has no resemblance to the Mauritius species; on the contrary, it is cer- 

 tainly an unnamed species. It is characterized by peculiar, branching, 

 spiny fibrils of the peridiole walls, which are not known in any other 

 true Nidularia, and only known in Nidula Emodensis of India, cfr. Nidu- 

 lariaceae, pp. 9 and 12), Geaster saccatus (with an "elongated" mouth 

 which I hardly think is natural), Sphaerobolus rubidus (From these dried 

 specimens I could tell^nothing^butMr. Fetch furni8hes_a most interesting 



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