58 MICROSCOPY. 
not have taken time to notice the long comment on my short 
letter, appearing on page 234 of the “ Monthly Microscopical 
Journal” for May, 1872, but for the remark that my letter was 
written with “evident loss of temper!” Quite the reverse; it 
was penned in a spirit of “ chaff,” and Mr. Bicknell, in his brief 
note in reply, seems to have caught the vein; at which no one, 
perhaps, laughed more heartily than myself. On the other hand, 
it has drawn C. S. out of his shell, with horns erect, in his proper 
name or color. I have nothing further to say on the question, 
which leads to no scientific discovery, and is one to be settled 
between the makers of object-glasses and purchasers, who are now 
sufficiently warned. No particular reform can be anticipated by 
pages of controversy having for its very basis such full scope for 
personalities, of which this and the above may be taken as a 
sample. The tone is becoming silly and tiresome; and having 
contributed my share, I must drop the subject with the remark 
that no one would be more willing to induce the makers to adopt 
a nomenclature having a definite reference to actual magnifying 
power than myself, could I see the possibility of doing so. Nu- 
merals such as those adopted by the Continental makers would per- 
haps partly meet the difficulty ; but I believe that no English opti- 
cian would consent to name his glasses this way.—F. H. WENHAM. 
New York Uncrnut2.— Mr. Charles H. Peck has communi- 
cated to the Albany Institute a synopsis of the New York (State) 
Uncinulz, described seven species as occurring in the state in : 
addition to two described by Dr. E. C. Howe. Only three species 3 
are credited to Great Britain, whose mycology has been well inves- 
tigated. Our species are systematized as follows. 
See: to the wien thirty or more. 
gia tl 8 U. circinata 
aata i ith s six spores POTTE T ee cone U. parvula. 
rac with four ere, EOE EAE U. adunca. a 
U. macrospora 
Appendages less than thirty. 
U. fle ruosa 
ppendages p 
Appendages hi . not fiexuous, Tr 7. Clin f 
A iA 1 q 
EP 
amp pel op sae 8 
a Dé sible on species are U. Americana (U. spiralis B. & C.) figured 
— not described by Berkeley, which is near U. ampelopsidis but 
h pendages few, longer and colored ; and U. luculenta which is 
