264 Editors’ Table. {March 
It is surprising how this seal has lived for so long a time in 
such a frequently traversed part of the ocean as the Gulf of 
Mexico, surrounded as it is on all sides by populous cities, and 
yet should for nearly four hundred years remain all but unknown. 
Naturalists are usually particularly acute in searching out rare 
specimens; but by some peculiar combination of circumstances 
this seal has eluded the many scientific expeditions heretofore 
made to these waters. 
For a full description of this seal the reader is referred to the 
previously-mentioned bulletin of Professor Allen, to whose much 
more able hands this work peculiarly belongs, and to whom I 
have willingly resigned it. 
EDITORS’ TABLE. 
EDITORS: E. D. COPE AND J. S. KINGSLEY. 
WE most heartily approve the growing practice of using Eng- 
lish names for the various fungi, especially those which are of 
interest to us economically. Such fungi must be discussed over 
and over again in the journals of the day; they must be talked 
about by farmers, gardeners, stock-growers; they must be de- 
scribed by teachers and popular lecturers. A few of these spe- 
cies which are bound to have this publicity have scientific names 
which can be readily adopted into English speech ; but in the 
great majority of cases the scientific names cannot be used by 
the people, nor can they be in any way “anglicized” or modified 
into such forms as will bring them into every-day use. Thus, 
while the genus Bacterium has given us the accepted term Bac- 
teria for a group of organisms, the allied genus Saccharomyces 
has not been nor ever will be anglicized. Possibly Mucor may 
come into common use, but Entomophthora never will; nor will 
Phytophthora, Podosphzra, Sphzrotheca, Heop hasa, Ery- 
siphe, etc. Itis not too much to hope that gardeners will habit- 
ually speak of the “ Ramularia” of the strawberry, the “ Septoria” 
of the plum leaf, the “ Peronospora” of the grape-vine, but is any 
one rash enough to expect to hear our vineyardists speaking 
familiarly of the Physalospora (“ Black Rot”), the Cercospora 
€ Grape-leaf Blight’ ’), or the Phyllosticta (“ Grape-leaf Spot”)? 
