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MEMORABILIA. 
Cintractia axicola ( Berlc .). — There has been some error in 
regard to this species. The original type specimen from St. 
Domingo is not a Cintractia , but an Ustilago , as are also Australian 
specimens. The variety B, from Alabama, is the Cintractia , from 
which a fragment must have been sent to M. Cornu, without 
examination, under the impression that all the specimens under 
the same name in the Berkeley Herbarium were the same species. 
Hence there are two species, Ustilago axicola (B.) from St. Domingo 
and Australia, and Cintractia axicola (B.) from North America. 
The former is probably the same as Ustilago flmbristylis , Thumen. 
Braithwaite’s British Moss Flora. — The thirteenth part 
contains Splachnaceae, CEdipodiaceae, Funariacese, and the first 
part of Bryaceae, with six plates. The 14th part is announced to 
contain the continuation of Bryaceae. 
Russula Barl,e and nitida. — By some error of the printer, at 
page 335 and 336 of the reprint of “ Handbook,” the varieties 
cuprea and pulchralis are placed under Russula Barlce instead of 
Russula nitida. This error occurred in making up the pages, and 
has only now been detected. Both are varieties of Russula nitida , 
so that the description No. 1236 should precede them. 
Geoglossum glabrum, Pers. — We regret to have to protest 
against the substitution, in Saccardo’s Sylloge (viii., p. 43) of 
Geoglossum ophioglossoides for this old and long-established name, 
the more especially when the similar Cordyceps ophioglossoides is 
liable to be confounded with it. 
Species of Fungi. — The number of species of Fungi enumerated 
in Saccardo’s Sylloge is 31,927 (Vol. viii., p. 16). The number 
included in Streinz Nomenclatorum (1862) was 11,893. Not less 
than 12 or 15 years ago (“ Tendencies of Systematic Botany ”) we 
estimated roughly that the number was not less than 20,000. At 
the time it was urged against us that this estimate was too high, 
and the paragraph was called in question in which we stated that 
“ we think it is a very safe estimate to place the number of species 
of fungi at 20,000.” It appears now that, for a rough estimate, 
we were at that time tolerably near the truth. 
Polyporus pisiformis, Kalch. — The specimen of this fungus, 
sent to the Editor many years since, when the species was 
described, is now 7 in the Kew Herbarium, and is a genuine 
Polyporus. although not fully developed. It may be that it is a 
juvenile form of some well-known species, but, at any rate, it is not 
the same thing as Herr Bresadola has had under notice as a 
Gasteromycete. 
Illustrations of British Fungi. — The publication of the 
final parts has been delayed in order to include any new or rare 
