Mycological Notes, No. 39. 



\fter sleeping peacefully for three long years, we have again concluded to 

 issue a number of Mycological Notes. Rather, we have not been asleep in the mean- 

 time, having published several monographs, but Mycological Notes has. This 

 number will mostly be devoted to illustrating the rare plants and novelties that 

 have lately reached us, viz. : 



CORDYCEPS CRAIGII, FROM ERIC CRAIG, NEW ZEALAND. 

 CORDYCEPS AMAZONICA, FROM REV. C. TORREND, BRAZIL. 

 CORDYCEPS NUTANS, FROM J. UMEMURA, JAPAN. 

 CORDYCEPS ROBERTSII, FROM GEORGE BROWN, NEW ZEALAND. 

 CORDYCEPS SOBOLIFERA, FROM S. KAWAMURA, JAPAN. 

 CORDYCEPS MELOLONTHAE, FROM DR. M. S. WHETSTONE. 



MINNESOTA. 



BOTRYTIS (SP.), FROM B. T. HARVEY, COLORADO. 

 POLYPORUS MYLITTAE, FROM E. CHEEL, AUSTRALIA. 

 XYLARIA AXIFERA, FROM REV. C. TORREND, BRAZIL. 

 EXIDIA PURPUREO-CINEREA, FROM MISS A. V. DUTHIE, SOUTH 



AFRICA. 



EXIDIA CAESPITOSA, FROM MISS A. V. DUTHIE, SOUTH AFRICA. 

 STROBILOMYCES PALLIDUS, FROM F. A. WOLF, ALABAMA. 

 ARACHNION SCLERODERMA, FROM MISS A. V. DUTHIE, SOUTH 



AFRICA. 

 SEBACINA DENDROIDEA, PHOTOGRAPH FROM BURTT LEEPER. 



SALEM, OHIO. 



J. B. ELLIS. 



We present a photograph of Professor J. B. Ellis, sent us some 

 time since, by Mrs. Dallas, since deceased. Through an error, it was 

 filed in our library without being brought to my personal knowledge, 

 and has only recently been found. 



It was my privilege to meet Professor Ellis during the latter years 

 of his life. He was exceedingly timid and shrinking, but possessed of 

 a charming personality, and by his lovable disposition endeared him- 

 self taall who knew him. I never went East without going to see him 

 for a few hours, and always came away the better for the visit. It is 

 not here the place to discuss his part in American mycology. While 

 hampered by lack of published literature and museum facilities, he 

 yet accomplished a vast amount of work, and did it as best he could. 

 While I was aware of many mistakes that he made, I never, during 

 his lifetime, mentioned one of them in print. So earnest and honest 

 was he in his work, and possessed of such a lovable disposition, that 

 it was impossible for me to say a word that might have hurt his feel- 

 ings in any way. I do not know of any other person towards whom I 

 have felt exactly as I did towards Mr. Ellis, but consideration for his 

 sensitive disposition and the high regard in which I held him per- 

 sonally, prompted me thus to make of him an exception. 



ADDITIONAL NOTES ON CORDYCEPS. 



We are particularly interested in Cordyceps. They are most curious plants, 

 usually developed from the bodies of some insect, larva, or pupa. I trust any one 

 who finds specimens will favor me by simply drying them and sending to my ad- 

 dress. I he tropical species are very imperfectly known. 



