has paid no attention and made no effort to take part in the cheap name-juggling 

 that is now going on. When the host of busybodies who spend their time 

 hunting up excuses to form "new genera" begin to realize that nobody takes 

 them seriously, there will be less of that work done, much to the simplification 

 of the subject. 



A few errors have crept into the work which we mention as an aid in 

 case future editions are printed. Fig. 75, Clavaria Ligula, should probably be 

 Clavaria pistillaria. It is much too obese for Ligula. Fig. 85, Tremella fuci- 

 formis, is Tremella vesicaria. It has no resemblance at all to Tremella fuci- 

 formis, which is a white species of the tropics, and does not occur in the United 

 States. This mistake has been copied from Atkinson. Fig. 90, Tylostoma 

 mammosus, is evidently Tylostoma campestris. Tylostoma mammosus, which 

 is the common European species, is strangely rare in America. It is a much 

 smaller plant than Tylostoma campestris, with a well-defined tubular mouth. 

 Fig. 97, Dictyophallus impudicus, is Phallus Ravenelii, the same exactly as 

 Fig. 96. The well-developed veil shown on one of the sections, as well as the 

 even pileus, are characteristics of Ravenelii and contrary to the characters of 

 impudicus. 



To the best of our belief, all the remaining figures, some 125 in number, 

 are correctly named. 



Any one beginning the study of mycology will find Professor Clements' 

 book a most useful help. It can be obtained by sending 30 cents in postage 

 stamps to F. E. Clements, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 



A NEW EDITION OF McILVAINE'S BOOK. 



There has recently been issued a new edition of the book that was previ- 

 ously issued under the title "One Thousand American Fungi," by Charles 

 Mcllvainc, revised by Chas. F. Millspaugh. Mr. Mcllvaine was for years an 

 enthusiastic observer of fungi, but he should be classed as a mycophagist rather 

 than a mycologist, as his studies were mostly confined to the edible side of 

 the fungus question. He published some years ago a very bulky work on 

 American fungi, which was largely a compilation. It was very useful, for he 

 compiled in systematic form many of Professor Peck's descriptions, otherwise 

 only found scattered through periodical literature and not accessible to the 

 ordinary students. The present edition appears to me to be an improvement 

 on the original edition, both in the superior quality of the plates and the cor- 

 rectness of the text. There are still a great many errors in the book which 

 should be corrected in a text-book on American fungi. Much of our literature 

 is a compilation of traditions and mistakes, and until some one who has a 

 familiar field knowledge of the subject writes a text-book, these errors will 

 always be handed down. 



The price of the book is $5. Publishers, Bobbs, Merrill & Co., Indianapolis, 

 Indiana. 



ASEROE ZEYLANDICA IN AFRICA. 



The genus Aseroe has never been definitely recorded from Africa. At 

 Berlin there is an .unrecognizable specimen which was not published (cfr. Note 

 12, p. 44, Synopsis of the Known Phalloids). I was much interested in a speci- 

 men received (in formalin) from Mr. Chas. A. O'Connor, Mauritius, which from 

 the disposition of the segments I would refer to Aseroe Zeylandica. This species 

 occurs in Ceylon and Java, and it is worthy of note that the African species 

 accords with the East Indian species, but does not agree with any form known 

 from Australia. 



POLYSTICTUS PINSITUS. "Polystictus pinsitus with dark pores is 

 quite a rare plant. When growing in the shade the pores are white, when ex- 

 posed to the sun and older the pores are often dark. The variation of this 

 species is infinite. The surface is sometimes quite white. If growing covered 

 in the woods sometimes yellow, but rare, mostly cinereous. I think the whole 

 section of Saccardo is the same thing. It has often habits of Irpex." Extract 

 from letter from Rev. J. Rick, Brazil. 



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