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Mycologia 



to finding curious fungi. Diligent search netted us three speci- 

 mens in all. 



On reaching home, I consulted C. G. Lloyd's mycological notes, 

 and soon discovered that the curious fungus belonged to the genus 

 Tylostoma or Tulostoma, the first spelling preferable and the sec- 

 ond perhaps the original. I sent one of the plants to Mr. Lloyd 

 for specific determination, supposing that the three plants belonged 

 to one of the common species of the genus. Mr. Lloyd's reply 

 was as follows : " Your Tylostoma is Tylostoma verrucosum as 

 named by Morgan. It is a very rare species, and I have collected 

 it but once. It has a regular, tubular mouth, where it differs from 

 Tylostoma campestre." 



Mr. Lloyd's monograph of the " Tylostomeae " appeared in 

 1906, at which time this rare species was known through but three 

 collections, the original one by A. P. Morgan, near Preston, Ohio, 

 the second by Mr. Lloyd himself, also in Ohio, and the third by 

 W. H. Long, in Texas. There is nothing in Mr. Lloyd's letter to 

 indicate that other collections have been made outside the original 

 area, and ours seems to be the fourth locality from which this rare 

 and interesting fungus has been collected. 



Our three plants are very nearly of the same size, and the stipes 

 are somewhat longer and the. peridia somewhat smaller than Mr. 

 Lloyd's Fig. 4, in plate 76 of his monograph. 



Bruce Fink 



The Toronto Meeting 



The thirteenth annual meeting of the American Phytopathologi- 

 cal Society was held at Toronto, Canada, December 27-31, 192 1. 

 Prof. J. H. Faull, of the University of Toronto, had charge of 

 the phytopathological exhibits. Section G of the A. A. A. S. and 

 the Mycological Section of the Botanical Society of America as- 

 sisted as usual with the program where the subjects and discus- 

 sions were of mutual interest. Dr. Howe and Dr. Harper repre- 

 sented the New York Botanical Garden. Of the 2,000 present at 

 the general meeting, about 200 were botanists. The next president 

 of the Botanical Society of America is H. C. Cowles. The new 



