AN INTERESTING LOT OF BLUNDERS. 



I recently received from a correspondent an agaric growing on a t-nnit,. 

 nest, and sent it to Prof. Fetch for determination. He replied as folkm | 



"Your specimen is Collyhia albuminosa (Berkeley) IVt.-h, 



= Lepiota albuminosa, Berkeley (1847) 



= ArmiIlaria eurhiza, Berkeley (1847)1 



= Lentinus cartilaginous, Berkeley (1847). 



= ColIybia sparsibarbis, Berkeley & Broom 



= Pluteus Rajap, Ilr,l t( -rinan. 



= Flammula Janseana, Henning & Nyman, 

 -Pholiota Janseana, Henning & Xyinan 



= Pluteus termitam, P. Henning, 



= Plut*us Treubianus, P. Henning & E. Xvinnn, 



= l > luteus bogoriensis, P. Henning \ K xVman 



Flammnla tilipendula, P. Henning & K Xvman 



= Tricholoma subgambosum Cesati, 



= Collybia radicata of describers of dried tropical agaric 



= \olvaria eurhiza (Berkeley) Fetch, 



= Collybia eurhiza (Berkeley) v. Hohnel, 

 It i.s common in India, but the Indian synonyms are not yet known " 



t is a pity that they do not know them from India', for it would add no much to 

 the scientific knowledge to include :i few more of these scicn.iti. -, ho de- 



senbe tlie same plant as a "new ipeeies" in nine ditT. -rent genera 



XOIK 20. I recently bought for eight marks a copy of Otto Kuntze's Rerisio 

 Gem-rum Plantarum" in three volumes, a book that originally sold f.,,- 

 marks. 1 his is a strong: reduction in a few years since it was issued, l.ut i* 

 index to the ralne that is now placed in the botanical world on the Kunt/e work and hi* 

 systetn ot jaac)in names. The whole system wtu a fraud in the beginning, and it is 

 MirpriMim tbat any one should have been duped by such palpable trickery. 



XOTK 21. Dr. Eugen Wulff has discovered Daedalea jiiniperinus growing on the 

 Juniperus excelsiis in Jtussla. This is the first ree..i.l ,,f the plum . 



is rather rare in the I'nited States. It first reached Kills from Martholo w, Kansaa, 



and Kills named it Daedalea Kansensis. lie also so named it for me when I 

 it at .Mammoth Cave on the red cedar, also for Mrs. Dallas. Mr. Murrill found it in 

 Kills- herbarium so labeled no doubt, and at once discovered and published it a* .-, "new 

 .species" of Agaricus (sic). He carefully refrained from any allusion t.. the fact that 

 JCIlis had already named it, and that the name was well known to Ameri.., 



Professor Morgan, to whom 1 sent the plant, was strongly inclined to refer aa a 

 variety of Daedalea quercinus, and Bresadola. to whom 1 al- ..f the 



same opinion. I can not agre-e with this view, as I think Daedalea juniperinus is slron-flr 

 distinct from Daedalea quercinus. and i believe will so impress any one who is familiar 

 with both plants as they grow. I have also beliexed that it was Daedalen Mil.tn: 

 us named by Schweinitx. drawing my conclusion from Schweinit/ > s.nnu do.-npti.in . but 

 no specimen of it exists in any museum, and of course a conclusion drawn from a 'I 

 tiou merely is very uncertain. Still we would be just as much justified 

 Schweinitz's species on the basis of "priority" as a large part of such 

 done nowadays. 



XO'l'K '22. Polyporus t'ilvns in Europe. Polyporus cilvus which 



abundance in America. Africa. India, and many warm countries of the -nrlh. is Ktr*n*rljr 

 rare, almost absent from Europe. The only collector that we know to have found it wan 

 Quelet, and he discovered (of course! that it WHS a A little frasrornt 



of Quelet's collection is found in the museum at I'p.-ala. and Mresaii!a te|U me that h 

 has it also from Quelet. It occurs in the English tc\l books, mid you would jud. 

 their pul.lications that you could go into the woods in England and find it any day. 

 Non. of the English botanists ever saw an English specimen, how. .rd in 



Knidish mycology is due to Pries, who thought he recognized ti 



by 's pictures. The picture looks little like it to me, but Fries' (rues* passe* in the 

 English text-books, without, however, stating the source of it. Out 

 lection of Quelet, I think there is no other from Europe pro, 



terranean islands Mareucci distributed it as 'Koines fnlvuv - but it waa 



not the type form of Polyporus gilvus but a soft, spongy I.TIM that should have a name. 

 The Marcucci collection belongs rather to the African type, where th- 'iiimon. 



rather than to the European flora. 



XOTK 23. "Polypoms plebins var. rubensU." This which wma ao refirrrd grim- 



allv bv Berkelev i.s quite common in tropical America. I gathered it in abun.i 



Florida rears a-o. and Father I.anglois found it common in I^.uisinna. It wa. n-ferr*d 



bv Kllis'to Pohi.orus hemileucus, and has been so labeled in my eolh 



.I'eveloi.s that hemileucus is a quite different plant. This plant i 



Brazil Hat recently as Polvponis plebius. There is ,, ,, u ,.tion t" it b,-inc H. , 



variet"', hough whether it has any relation to Polyporus pl.biu. (of N>w Zealand) 

 is not at all sure. 



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