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THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
[May 28, 1887, 
views through glades right away to the dykes and 
unes. 
“The flower- rhe linkin are v Arni bes 
ng 
d plants of all s spreadin 
broidering di i туз 
delicious countrified look of all the plants and 
trees (we hail London and Leyden), and having 
it all to ourselves like this for the young gentle- 
man tol ener to leave alone to sketch. 
This civilised bete if one may so express te 
enchanting. From the ithe where sit Is 
mg Site vista of foliage beyond s 
nd зк a clump of 
i 
the 
ея his me beyond the rial: the M ark sweeps 
ard t a belvedere, ic: sang (for Holland, 
that i i tare nd of t An immense oval 
bed of Roses is spread fiat betes the house 
A SUPPLEMENT = BENTHAM AND HOOKER'S 
“ GENERA PLANTARUM 
We recently had the pleasure of announcing the 
early appearance of a general index to Bentham og 
Hooker's Genera Plantarum, n eve 
gaged on botanical work must have hailed with the 
greatest satisfaction. 
of Bentham and Hooker's classical work was pub- 
lished just a quarter of а centu o—a long 
period in the history of a scien 
botanists have been exceedingly active. 
Very many vomer new genera have been 
covered and described in a great variety of publica- 
tions; and whee missis or different бау 
of а considerable number of old genera has been 
d; hence extensive research beyond the 
pages of the Genera Plantarum is necessary to ascer- 
tain whether a genus not described therein has been 
described elsewhere, or is really new; and botanists 
published under diverse names by different botanists. 
Ever since the publication of the first part of the 
Genera Plantarum it has been the practice at Kew 
to enter in the names of all new genera with refer- 
ences to th 
knowledge that they had been in а measure antici- 
pated by Dr. Francisco Benecke, of Muni 
In the prospectus before us, issued p: Messrs, 
Borntreger, of Berlin, we are informed that a 
systematical and alphabetical conspectus of all the 
paration, and will shortly appear, 
render it as useful as possible, 
Hookers Genera Plantarum will be followed à as 
closely as the circumstances will permit. Full 
synonymy, number of species, place of ee 
and geographical distribution of each genus will be 
given, together with references to the literature 
rena thereto. Notwithstandi act that 
work to some extent forestalls me it is 
| that the Bentham trustees will | see their 
where new ones have been proposed for certain 
species of old genera, as this would be a great help to 
persons working with small libraries. 
FUNGUS OF ANEMONE BEDS: 
PEZIZA TUBEROSA, Burr. 
AT irregular intervals correspondents of the Gar- 
deners’ Chronicle send examples of a fungus named 
Peziza tuberosa, for a name. The fungus always 
comes from Anemone beds in gardens, and the cor- 
respondents invariably say the fungus has killed the 
Ane 
The history of this comparatively large fungus is 
ور چ‎ Its general appearance is shown 
n the accompanying illustration (fig. 137); it will be 
ا‎ that the fungi spring from a dark coloured 
FIG, 137.—PEZIZA TUBEROSA. 
body like the rootstock of an Anemone. The fun 
nemorosa grows the substance from which the fungus 
springs is so exceedingly like the rootstock of A, 
nemorosa, that Hedwig has described this part ofthe 
fungus as really an Anemone rootstock upon which 
Peziza tuberosa is itic. 
But Fries, Sowerby, and Dickson noticed that the 
sre from which the fungus springs is different 
from th Mons ке of the Anemone, „гн observers 
sintad f o be of 
nature, and Berkeley stated it fe. ma a ү кг рго- 
bably S. fungorum lerotium, 
it may be said, is a ide soaks of fungus spawn 
or mycelium, a kind of fungus rootstock, from win 
pring from the rootstock of an 
Anemone. A fungus, named Peziza postuma, springs 
from a Sclerotium, or к gele of IR, on 
yi resemblance of the fungus rootstock to 
Anemo 
observer can 
sometimes hardly distinguish rootstock of the 
Anemone from that of the fun 
The microscope kr a ilii things that the 
unaided eyes cannot se fa 
is one mass of involved fungus threads, and in every 
v 
` The fungus reproduces itself by spores. If minute 
n specimens of Peziza will grow 
from one large fungus rootstock. 
of the fungus rootstock as 
0 reminded 
E 
found inside caterpillars which have been destroyed 
by fungi. For an example of ied een see Gar- 
deners’ Chronicle, Feb, 26, 1887, p. 2. 
Last year Mr. W. Wickham, а Fais of the 
Linnean Society, a gentleman ne git with plants 
d of double 
But 
n I saw som 
without my microscope. I say “ destroyed ” advisedly, 
for when Mr. Wickham had his Anemone bed dug 
fungi instead of Anem n 
what had become of the галай Соли wen 
il 28 last a at ath correspondent of the 
his experien nee of a bed of 
One of ny bed produced 
Anemones in full bloom, whilst another part wes 
Pm are covered with and коо nothing but 
the fungus nam eziza tuberosa. 
On ЖОЙ the fungi up they appeared to be 
growing from the rootstocks of the Anemones. 
The latter examples passsd muster in the Gar- 
deners’ Chronicle office as veritab 
stocks and they were sent on to 
fact is a to show iei the resemblance of 
the fungus rootstock to the Anemone rootstock is 
sometimes ыны. strong to deceive critical and 
experienced persons. 
ing cue едеу requires further i nvesti- 
here and how does н» Sclerotium qm it 
amass its large 
E o ntly nie Anemones r 
the Sclerotium indebted in any way to the Anemon 
itself for its formation? Suc state of 
sible that for many years a mi after 
and the supposed Sclerotium of the Peziza is, 
all, the thin and arerin bark of an n NN 
strongly. suspect this (ЖШ, prove to be the case. пе 
