investigations on similar bodies made by Thuirutt 1 in iWpat. The 

 author recounts the results of his experiments of digesting certain 

 compounds with water and various chemical* for a long time at a high 

 temperature, and describes minutely the products formed. Bv using 

 the proper ingredients a series of sodalites was produced, in which 

 sodium silicate, the corresponding selenite, sulphite, chlorate and other 

 >alts take the place of the chloride in the must common sodalite. The 

 details of the experiments cannot be given, although thev areextremelv 

 interesting. The formula thought to represent best the chemical prop- 

 erties of natural sodalite » U Na < ). A I . 2Si< >./. -f L' Na ( "]. 'i he 



and alkaline carbonates shows clearly that ei 

 hydrating the substances upon which it acts, 

 of interest are reached through the author'] 

 cannot be mentioned here for lack of space. 



BOTANY. 



Myriostoma coliforme Dicks, in Florida.— A note upon the 

 rare occurrence of Geaster coliformis may be seen in the ninth volume 

 ■ r < Mevillia. It was found in England and first recorded in Ray's 

 'Synopsis in 1724: with long intervals it has been seen a few times since. 

 It has been met with in a few localities on the continent. When I 

 wrote the article on N. A. Geasters in The American Naturalist 

 in 1884, I was not aware that Myriostoma coliforme had ever been 

 found in this country, but that paper brought out the fact that a speci- 

 men which came from Colorado was in the N. Y. State Museum of 

 Natural History. This I noticed in the Journal of Mycology, Vol. I, 



Last summer Prof. L. M. Underwood found a nest of this rare and 

 curious fungus in the vicinity of Eldorado, Fla. Through his kind 

 consideration and liberality, I have come into possession of three speci- 



As no account of the internal structure has ever been given, I was 

 eager to examine its interior and proceeded shortly to carve the largest 

 specimen. A study of this enables me to fortify the opinion of Des- 

 vaux that this interesting species of the tribe Geaster should of itself 

 constitute an independent genus. But let us examine it carefully 

 beginning with the mycelium and the external surface. 



^ineralchemische Studien, Dorpat, 1891, p. 128. 



