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the United States at least. Tin's opinion is expressed by Pro- 

 fessor Peck in Bolcti, p. 1 59. Nearly all the fungi and slime 

 moulds given are common species and have probably been col- 

 lected by others who have studied the mycologic flora of our 

 island. 



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 Brooklyn, New York. 



SHORTER NOTES 



Three Cotvi.edoxs ix Juglan.s. — A whorl of three cotyle- 

 dons has been recorded in a great variety of dicotj-ledons. 

 ]-5raun (1869) mentions a considerable number of such ca.ses, 

 Masters (1869) records nine different genera in which this abnor- 

 mality occurs, and many other references are scattered through 

 botanical literature. 



During the last winter I ran across a nut of the so-called 

 pjiglish walnut { Jiig/aiis rcgia L.) which was perfectly thrce- 

 valved and which contained an embryo with three, apparently 



normal, cot)'ledons. 



Edward W. Berrv. 

 Passaic, New Jersey. 



A NEW RosELLiNiA FROM NICARAGUA — Roselliiiia Bakcri 

 sp. nov. Perithecia scattered or collected in groups of l—^, 

 touching each other but not confluent, or in short series of 3 or 4, 

 globose, slightly roughened, except the small, papilliform, black 

 ostiolum, base slightly sunk in the wood, about 0.5 mm. in diam- 

 eter : asci cylindrical, short-stipitate, spore-bearing part 55-65// 

 X 7—8 fi : sporidia uniseriate, acutely elliptical, more so at one 

 end, subinaequilateral and slightly compressed, 8-10/^ x 4—4.5 '>■ 

 or 3-3.5/^ when viewed edgewise. 



On Urcra, Chinandega, Nicaragua, December, 1903 {C. F. 

 Baker, jgi^o). 



R. coniprcssa E. & D. has smaller perithecia and larger sporidia. 



J. B. Ellis. 



Newi-iei.d, New Jersey. 



A MUCH-NAMED Fern — One ordinarily looks for carelessness 

 of citation as a feature of the systematic (or unsystematic?) bot- 

 any of the early years of the nineteenth century rather than of 



