resting on the surface of the sand. Spores are subglobose 5x6 mic., smooth, 

 about the same as in the type form. 

 TURNER, E. J., Australia: 



Thelephora (?). It has the appearance of a Thelephora, but the 

 spores do not fit. They are globose, subhyaline, smooth, 4 mic. Geaster 

 saccatus (?). Specimen old and doubtful. 



USSHER, CHAS. B., Africa: 



Geaster Javanicus, fine specimen of a beautiful tropical species. 

 Lycoperdon fuligineum, form. Agrees with the type form in habits and 

 dark peridium, scanty sterile base, and particularly in thick, hyaline, sep- 

 tate capillitium. It differs in spores, which slightly rough, are not as in the 

 type form "strongly spinulose." Geaster saccatus, small tropical form with 

 dark, inner peridium. Xylaria (Sp.), conidial form. Cyathus limbatus, spores 

 16 x 20-24. It looks more like Poeppigii as to cups, but we must refer it to 

 limbatus on its spores. It is really intermediate. 



VAN BAMBEKE, DR. CHARLES, Belgium: 



Fomes connatus Polyporus giganteus Fomes cryptarum (as la- 

 beled). I am not familiar with it, but it seems to answer Fries' description 

 and fairly well Bulliard's figure. Bresadola refers cryptarum' to Fomes an- 

 nosus, which these specimens are certainly not. Polyporus (?) 



OBSERVE YOUR PHALLOIDS. 



The phalloids of the world excepting Europe, Java, Brazil, and the 

 United States are practically unknown. They grow with you and are such 

 striking plants, that they should excite your curiosity. They are all foetid. 

 We want to learn them; we want to learn what grows with you, and it will 

 be an easy matter if you will aid us. When you find a phalloid, make a 

 sketch of it (a crude one will answer), and indicate on the sketch the 

 colors of the parts. Then dry the specimen and send the sketch and 

 dried specimen. Write us if it is common or rare, where it grows, any 

 local names it may have, etc. If you indulge in photography, a good pho- 

 tograph is the best record you can make of the plant, and should it prove 

 to be a species not illustrated by a photograph, we will gladly publish your 

 photograph with due credit. 



Will you not aid us with dried specimens, sketches, or phqtographs if 

 possible, of your phalloids? C. G. LLOYD, 



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



Paris VI, France. 



