MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 



Issued by C. G. LLOYD. 



224 West Court Street, - - CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. A little personal interest on the part 

 of the recipient in picking up and sending to my address, specimens of 

 the larger fungi. All are desired excepting specimens of fleshy Agarics. 

 Simply dry the specimens and send them in. 



FRANK H. AMES 



We present on the first page of this pamphlet a photograph of the 

 late Frank H. Ames, who died in Cambridge, Mass., on August I of 

 this year. Mr. Ames was a teacher the greater part of his life, and 

 for the past twenty years was connected with the schools in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y. He was an enthusiastic lover of nature and well informed on 

 various branches of Natural History, but of course it is in connection 

 with his study of Mycology that we came in touch with him. He was 

 a fine collector and often sent to our museum a nice selection of the 

 rare fungi. 



He was born October 8, 1852, hence was in his sixty-fifth year. 

 The photograph that we present was taken about ten years ago. 



Mr. Ames published nothing on the subject, but was well informed 

 on classification, and his specimens were always accompanied with 

 critical notes that added much to their value. Although we did not 

 know him personally, we feel a personal loss in his death. 



Mr. Ames' name will be preserved in connection with the Ameri- 

 can fungi through Sebacina Amesii, that was published in Mycological 

 Notes, page 576. 



AN INTERESTING PHALLOID FROM CHINA 



LYSURUS SINENSIS, FROM G. GISH GEE, CHINA. The 

 entire plant about three inches high. Stem fluted with five angles, 

 about a cm. in diameter; hollow, composed of large, cellular tissues. 

 Stem bearing five angular arms, which are connivant, but distinct from 

 each other, except where they are united at the top into a tip about 

 2 cm. long. 



The second foreign phalloid that was named is Lysurus Mokusin, 

 which was published from China 137 years ago and crudely figured by 

 Father Cibot, a Jesuit missionary, then located in China. The 

 specific name refers to a Chinese province, and for more than a hundred 

 years the world's knowledge of the plant rested on Father Cibot's 



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