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a small fragment, crushed flat, and even this was at that time 

 no longer in evidence. This specimen was itself not part of the 

 gathering submitted to Rostafinski; but only the fragment of some- 

 thing appearing in 1890 in the same locality! 



. . . . "something not the same. 



But only like its forecast in men's dreams." 



When we further reflect that the spores of species of several of 

 the forms now in review, Tubifera, Reticularia, Enteridium, are not 

 without difliculty distinguished, it is easy to see that Mr. Wingate's 

 specific reference has narrow foundations to say the least. It seems 

 now likely that Father Torrend's Liceopsis, Reticulara lobata R., 

 M. Roze's aftermath, and all, are but the depauperate forms of some 

 tubifera! 



E. rozeanum Wing., is therefore the synonj^m for an ill-defined 

 something in Western Europe and need not further here concern us 

 as far material reference goes. 



In any case, what induced Mr. Wingate to pull Rostafinski's un- 

 certain description of a problematic form across the sea, to attach it 

 to our clearly defined and well known American species, changing 

 the Polish description the while to make it fit, is hard to understand ; 

 especially in view of the fact, by Wingate admitted, that Rex had 

 in his letters to Morgan already named the American type 

 Enteridium umbrinum. The two students differed as to generic refer- 

 ence, and later on Morgan published Reticularia splendens Morg. ; 

 rather than R. umbrina (Rex) Morg. because he was using R. um- 

 brina Fr. for what is generally known as R. ly coper don {Bull.) 



It would then appear that when Wingate sought to impose the 

 Rostafinskian specific name upon our American form by changing 

 (fixing!) Rostafinski's generic reference, and by re-writing the 

 specific description from the pages of the Monograph in order to 

 claim identity, he was entirely without justification, especially since 

 he knew the species appropriately named by his colleague. Dr. Rex, 

 and had the name as used in the Rex and Morgan correspondence. 



In brief; Mr. Wingate proceeded to re-describe Rostafinski's rozean 

 specimen and referred a long-known American form (very different) 

 to the European specimen as type. Wingate's description is right; 



