4 NORTH AMERICAN FUNGI. 
Rafinesque-Schmaltz, C. S. 
505>. Prospectus of Mr. Rafinesque-Schmaltz’s 
two intended works on North American botany; 
the first on the new genera and species of plants 
discovered by himself, and the second on the natu- 
ral history of the funguses, or mushroom-tribe of 
America. Medical Repository. Second Hexade. 
V. 350-356, New York, 1808. 
On pp. 355, 356, is an enumeration of 17 new genera with 
brief remarks and names of some of the species included 
under the genera. The author states that he ‘shall describe 
in this work nearly 850 species or varieties of American 
mushrooms, of which one half will be new orders, and most 
of them elucidated by plates.” 
505°. Essential generic and specific characters 
of some new genusses and species of plants ob- 
served in the United States of America in 1803 and 
1804. By Mr. C. G. Rafinesque-Schmaltz. In a 
communication to Dr. Mitchell, dated Palermo, 
Sept. 1,1807. Medical Repository. Second Hex- 
ade. V. 356-363, New York, 1808. 
On pp. 362, 363, are descriptions of 20 new species of fungi, 
principally Pezizae and Clavariae. Neither this paper nor 
the preceding have any scientific value. 
After no. 523° insert the following : — 
Richardson, (Sir) John. 
523. Remarks on the climate and vegetable 
productions of the Hudson’s Bay countries. Hdin- 
burgh Phil. Jour. XII. 197-231. April, 1825. Also 
reprint, pp. 35. 
In a table on p. 224 is a list of 12 genera of fungi with the 
the number of species growing in the Hudson Bay country. 
After no. 508 insert the following : — 
Sahagun, Bernardino DE. 
508%, Historia universal de las cosas de Nueva 
Espana. 
This work, whose author lived about the 16th ena 
iven in Kingsborough’s Antiquities of Mexico. Vol. a 
ondon. 1831. In the 11th book, 7th chapter, pp. 369-394, 
is an account of plants, including some fungi. According to 
Mr. W. R. Gerard, who has called our attention to this title, 
this is probably the earliest account of North American fungi. 
‘There are brief descriptions with Aztec names of 12 species, 
one of which appears to be Lycoperdon giganteum and 
another probably Agaricus muscarius. 
After no. 528 insert the following :— 
Riley, Charles Valentine. The cabbage Plusia. 
Rept. U. S. Dept. Agr. for 1888, pp. 119-122. 
On p. 121 is a notice of a disease of Plusia Brassicae 
canged by Batrytis Rileyi Farlow, of which a description is 
given. : 
After Schmidt, J. C., insert the following :— 
Schoepf, Johann David. Wunsiedel, 8 March, 
1752. tAnspach, 10 Sept. 1800. 
552°. Materia medica americana, potissimum 
regni vegetabilis. Erlangen. 1787. 8° pp. 170. 
On p. 159 is an account of Agaricus coriaceus, Ag. Auri- 
culajudae, Lycoperdon Tuber, and L. Bovista, taken from 
Gronovius’s Flora Virginica, 2d ed. See title no. 337. In 
this work the author’s name is given Schoepf but in other 
works it is Schoepff. 
No. 563. In the note, Blastema should be Bla- 
stesis. The statement that this species was not 
published is incorrect. See ‘‘.4 fungus on the 
leaves of pear trees,” by W. H. Seaman, in Am. 
Month. Micr. Jour. III. 169, 170. Sept. 1882. 
To Seymour, A. B., add: See Burrill, T. J. 
After no. 5688 insert the following : — 
Seymour, Arthur Bliss. 
568>, Rusts of pomaceous fruits. 
Farmer, p. 648, fig. 1-4. 2 Oct. 1886. 
An account of the Gymnosporangia and Roesteliae of the 
Eastern United States, including a letter from J. G. Vaughn 
concerning forms observed in Marion Co., Ill. Same in sub- 
stance as no. 5675. 
After no. 598 insert the following : — 
Tournefort, Joseph Pitton pr. Aix, Provence, 
5 June, 1656. +Paris, 28 Dec. 1708. 
598°. Institutiones rei herbariae. Editio altera, 
etc. Vol. III. pp. 697. Pl. 476. Paris, 1700. 
On pp. 560, 563, 565, 666, are references to 5 fungi from 
America, 2 of them taken from Plukenet and one from Mo- 
rison. The species are also given in the third edition on the 
same pages, except 666. 
After no. 611 insert the following : — 
Tuckerman, Edward. 
611°. Note on Geaster quadrifidus. Am. Jour. 
Sci. and Arts, XXXVI. 380. July, 1839. 
Brief note stating that he has found this species in Cam- 
bridge, Mass. 
_ After Wilkes Expedition insert the follow- 
ing: 
Williams, Stephen W. 
627°. Report on the indigenous medical botany 
of Massachusetts. TZrans. Am. Med. Ass. II. 863- 
927. 1849. 
On p. 924, under the heading ‘‘ Mushrooms,’ is note on 
Heivella amara and Boletus Laricis, of no value. 
Prairie 
In Supplement, p. 35, 19th line from bottom, 
instead of ‘‘See title no. 22” read ‘See title no. 
227.” 
The statement under Fune1 Evroparr Exsic- 
catt that ‘‘the only part of the series which con- 
tains American specimens is that from Cent. 27 
on” is incorrect. In the appendix to Cent. 9 of 
the Herzarium Vivum Mycoroaicum is Stereum 
fasciatwm from North America. 
The attention of mycologists should be called to 
the Contribution to American Bibliography of In- 
sect Diseases in Psyche, V. 15-20, 45, 46, Jan— 
April, 1888, which gives a number of references to 
titles, partly botanical and partly entomological, 
which cannot well be introduced into the present 
list. 
