terica, but is probably best classed as a form. Cooke illustrates it as Tremella foliacea 

 (Handbook fig. 92), but it is only fair to state that this was based on Berkeley's deter- 

 mination. Still both of them ought to have known that Tremella foliacea is not yellow. 



NOTE 81. Calvatia lepidophora, sent by Frank D. Kern, LaFayette, Ind. This is 

 the second collection known of this rare species. It was collected by Dr. J. C. Arthur, 

 October 11, 1905, near LaFayette, Ind. The only previous collection was made in 

 Dakota by Nellie E. Crouch, and is the type in Ellis' herbarium. Calvatia lepidophora 

 differs from all other species in having a thin paper-like inner peridium, which persists 

 after the thick outer peridiuni breaks up and falls away. On this character it was made 

 the type of a "new genus" (cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 140) and named Hypoblema, but I feel 

 now it is much better to refer it to Calvatia with which it agrees in most characters. 



NOTE 82. The genus Strobilomyces. The receipt of a specimen from James Wilson, 

 of Beaconsfield, Victoria, Australia, Strobilomyces pallescens. which seems to be a frequent 

 species in Australia, led to my investigating the subject of Strobilomyces at Kew. Berke- 

 ley based the genus Strobilomyces not on the scales as might be supposed from his name, 

 but on it having globose sjiores, thus differing from the usual Boletus with which 

 Berkeley was familiar. This character is neglected in Saccardo, but has been duly 

 dug up by Murrill in his recent juggle of the genus Boletus, or rather rejuggle, for the 

 same work had been done oefore by both Karsten and Quelet, to which no one ever paid 

 any attention. 



There are at Kew, in addition to the well known Strobilomyces strobilaceus, ten 

 "species" each "known only from the type locality." All of them are more or less 

 scaly except one, Strobilomyces polypyramis, which is smooth or the ordinary Boletus 

 type of pileus but which has globose spores, further evidence of the idea Berkeley had 

 of the distinction of his genus. 



Of the eleven species at Kew, six of them, viz. polypyramis, velutipes, strobilaceus, 

 floccopus, montosus, and nigricans, have globose spores. Five. viz. ananaeceps, pallescens, 

 paradoxus, rufescens, and ligulatus, have elongated spores of the ordinary Boletus type. 

 In justice to Berkeley, however, it should be stated that neither of the five with elongated 

 spores were by him referred to Strobilomyces. This was mostly Cooke' s work. As some 

 of them, particularly Strobilomyces pallidus. accord exactly in the nature of the scaly 

 pileus to the original species, it is probably better to modify the original definition of the 

 genus, as has been done in practice, if not in words. 



If the genus is restricted to species with globose spores we. get a few species which 

 are typically Boletus in every other respect. If defined by the large scales on the pileus 

 (whence the name), it includes species the same exactly as Boletus as to spores. Of 

 course, an easy way out of the trouble would be to discover a "new genus," but too 

 much of that farcical kind of work has been done already. 



NOTE 83. Who has a Hundred Thousand Francs to spare for a worthy object! 



"Je puis prouver que la Mycologie actuelle n'est qu'une vraie confusion ou les 

 transformations d'un champignon unique, suivent meme chacune de ses parties consti- 

 tntives, les transformations de ses differentes sortes de spores et ces spores elles-memes, 

 ont ete classees comme especes et reunies pele-mele en genres, families, sous-ordres et 

 ordres, ou de toute autre mnniere, selon la fantaisie des auteurs. C'est pour cette raison 

 que la Mycologie, au lieu d'etre la premiere des sciences et la plus feconde, n'est encore 

 qu'une petite science, pleine de difficultes et nulle en fait d' applications. 



Je puis prouver que chaque modification et chaque combinaison nouvelles de sub- 



~ ampignons. 



umpignon, qui se transforme 1'infini selon 

 sme ou Unite du Champignon." 



Les avantages de cette dcouverte sont immense; c'est un incomparable progres 

 dont ou ne peut se passer; mais, comme elle doit detruire des systemes fameuse et des 

 erreurs de toutes sortes, elle est retardee depuis longtemps. 



Je prends 1'engagement d'abandonner toute recompense pecuniare. justqu" & con- 

 currence de cent mille francs a celui ou a ceux qui selon auront le plus contribue a 

 la faire admettre. 



Je vous en enverrai la demonstration, si vous me promettez de la vulgariser de votre 

 mieux, aussitot votre conviction bien etablie. Je ne puis Icrire, qu'&' un petit nombre 

 des membres de la Societe Mycologique de France. Je compte,- Monsieur, sur votre zele 

 pour la verite et pour le progres." 



If you know of any one who wants to spend 100,000 francs, we shall be glad to 

 give the address of this disinterested benefactor of mycology. As his scheme of "bene- 

 faction" seems to be very much on the same order as that of the late and lamented 

 Otto Kuntze, we respectfully bring it to the attention of the New York Botanical Garden. 



je puis prouver que cnaque muamcauun 

 stances produisent de nouvelles especes de chai 



Cette grande verite "II n'y a qu'un chan 

 la milieu" constitue la decouverte du "Proteism 



