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SHORTER NOTES 



The scientific Name of our common Huckleberry. — In 

 1787, Wangenheim (Beitr. Am. 30. pi. jg. f. ^p) published a de- 

 scription of a plant named by him Andromeda baccata. The figure 

 of the plant is a fair one, and from it and the description there is no 

 doubt that the plant so named is the common American huckle- 

 berry. Two years later, Aiton (Hort. Kew. 2:12) published the 

 name Vacciniuui resinosnm for the same plant, and when in 1843 

 the plant was referred to Gaylussaciahy Torrey & Gray (Torr. Fl. 

 N. Y. I : 449) the combination Gaylussacia rcsinosa was made. 

 Since that time the plant has appeared in American botanies 

 as Gaylussacia rcsinosa (Ait.) T. & G., but the above synonymy 

 and the correct name of our plant were noticed many years ago 

 by K. Koch (Dendrol. 2' : 93. 1872), and it would seem to be 

 proper for American botanists now to adopt the name published 

 by him for this common and well-known plant, namely Gaylus- 

 sacia baccata (Wang.) K. Koch. 



In like manner, the form published by Professor Robinson as 

 Gaylussacia rcsinosa glaucocarpa (Rhodora 2 : 83) should be- 

 come Gaylussacia baccata glaucocarpa. 



Kenneth K. Mackenzie 

 E.AST Orange, New Jersey. 



A new Lentinusfrom Pennsylvania. — Lentinus pulcherrimus 

 sp. nov. Pileus entire, coriaceous, umbilicate, indistinctly marked 

 with concentric zones, covered with fascicles of yellowish tan- 

 colored hairs, the fascicles arranged in radiating rows, giving the 

 pileus a corrugated appearance ; margin inflexed, 2 cm. broad, 

 covered with lanate hairs ; flesh white, scarcely i mm. thick ; gills 

 white, narrow, subdistant, rounded behind, free, margin entire ; 

 stem central, concolorous with the pileus, tomentose, equal, solid, 

 white within, 3 cm. long, 1.5 mm. thick ; spores white, broadly 

 ovate ; odor fetid, especially in drying, finally disappearing, some- 

 what like the odor of Claudopiis nididans. 



Growing on buried sticks, Kittanning, Pa. July, 1904. 



Type specimens are in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



In general appearance the plants resemble specimens of Col- 

 tricia cifinainoniea (Ja,c(\.) Murrill, and might be mistaken for that 



