Bovista echinella, but Batsch named it a hundred years before 

 Patouillard saw it, Lycoperdon pusillum, and gave a characteristic 

 figure of it, showing the protruding mouth which no other similar 

 plant has. In the meantime an entirely different and very common 

 plant has acquired the name Lycoperdon pusillum and ^ hundreds of 

 specimens have been so labeled, not forgetting to add "Batsch. I 

 presume I have so named a hundred collections myself for corres- 

 pondents. Prof. McGinty expresses his horror of such kind of work, 

 and proposes to restore the name Bovistella pusilla (Batsch) Mc- 

 Ginty according to the sacred principle of priority. 



TRAMETES LACERATA, FROM JAMES R. WEIR, MON- 

 TANA (Fig. 854). Resupinate white, without distinct margin, 



Fig. 854. 



closely adnate to the host. Pores white, large, 1-2 cm. irregular- 

 rigid, with thin, lacerate pore walls. Spores 2^x5-6 narrow, ellip, 

 tical, hyaline, smooth. This grows on Alder. It reminds one some- 

 what of resupinate Lenzites heteromorpha, but the pores are different. 



DALDINIA VERNICOSA, FROM BERRY BENSON, 

 SOUTH CAROLINA. A fine collection, typically as named by 

 Schweinitz, but I question if it is really distinct from the common 

 Daldinia concentrica of the entire world. In the type idea D. verni- 

 cosa differs from D. concentrica in its turbinate form and more shin- 

 ing surface, while D. concentrica is more globose and of duller sur- 

 face. The spores (6-8 x 10-14) and perithecia are the same. As pointed 

 out by Ellis the latter are monostichous, not polystichous as stated 

 in Saccardo. 



There are 24 species of Daldinia given in Saccardo, mostly from 

 the tropics. For the most part they are Daldinia concentrica, a 

 common and widely distributed plant. We get it from almost every 

 country in the world, and in Australia it takes large size, two or three 

 inches in diameter. In Europe Daldinia durissima was proposed by 

 Fries many years ago, but no one else ever found it, and a type at 

 Kew is the only common D. concentrica. Leveille discovered two 

 species in the United States, D. cingulata and D. loculata, both the 

 common D. concentrica. Massee discovered Daldinia aspera in the 

 West Indies, which is not a Daldinia at all (cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 579). 



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