its own, it will be possible to have a modest reference library and a col¬ 
lection of sketches and photographs, access to which cannot fail to be of 
the greatest assistance to all. It may besides be possible to have the 
rooms open on certain days in the week—-on Monday for instance — 
with some one in charge to assist in the determination of plants brought 
in. If with this could be combined the herbarium work, the Club would 
enter upon a greatly enlarged field of usefulness. The realization of a 
plan of this kind demands money, and unless the annual dues are to 
be raised, which seems hardly advisable, or the membership is to be 
increased many fold, which is desirable and probable in time, the funds 
of the Club must depend on individual subscription. Perhaps each 
member knows a friend to whom the advantages of membership in the 
Club can be easily demonstrated. Every member should be glad to see 
the Club start out next spring with quarters, however modest, of its own. 
A New Monthly. The Mycological Club is not alone in its desire to 
make the Fleshy Fungi better known. As already announced in a circular 
distributed some months ago, a new botanical monthly to be devoted to 
the Flora of New England will begin to appear in January next. This is 
the Journal of the New England Botanical Club, to be edited by Dr. B. L. 
Robinson of the Gray Herbarium assisted by Mr. F. S. Collins, Mr. M. L. 
Fernald, and Mr. Hollis Webster. Several pages out of the sixteen or 
twenty of each number will be devoted to the Fleshy Fungi. Among 
the subscribers are a goodly number of members of the Mycological Club, 
but additional subscriptions will be gladly received. They may be sent 
to the Secretary, Box 21, Cambridge. The price is $1.00 a year, payable 
in January next. 
Bulletins. Attention is called to the note under this head in the last 
number. Club Bulletins 3, 4, and 5 can be supplied at a cost of 50c for 
the three. 
A Club Book. The Club list is in the printer’s hands. Correction of 
addresses should be made at once if they are to be in time. 
Copies of Mr. Lloyd’s paper on the “ Volvae of the United States” 
are to be sent by the generosity of the author to every member of the 
Club. The paper is a most helpful compilation of descriptions, with 
brief notes, of all the Agarics with the structure of Amanita yet found 
in the country. It is perhaps needless to suggestthat a personal acknowl¬ 
edgment will be due Mr. Lloyd from each recipient of his courtesy. 
PLEUROTUS. 
The genus is separated from others with white spores by the excentric- 
ity or absence of stem. The species are fleshy, not at all cartilaginous, 
on trees or stumps, either sessile or with a stem which may be truly 
lateral or only excentric, and whose length often varies with the circum¬ 
stances of growth. A few have a fugacious veil. The gills are variously 
attached, sometimes long decurrent. The size of the plants varies from 
6 to 10 in. (Nos. 1, 10, 11) to J in., more or less (Nos. 26-29). (See, for 
synopsis of New York species by Prof. C. II. Peck, the 39th Report of 
the N. Y. State Museum, for 1S85.) 
Stem excentric , but pileus entire, though sometimes reduced to a thin , 
narroxv margin on one side. a. Lamellae not decurrent. Nos. 1-5. 
1. P. ulmarius Fr. Compact, heavy, sometimes very large, gla¬ 
brous, whitish or pale brownish, sometimes spotted, shiny when old, 
surface sometimes cracked. Stem often nearly central, thick, solid, some¬ 
times tomentose. Gills rather close, broad, adnexed. Common on elm 
and other trees in late autumn; variable. E. (Known to be edible.) 
2. P. sub-paImatus Fr. Soft, reddish, wrinkled and gelatinous on 
top; flesh variegated much as in Fistulina hepatica ; gills dingy, joined 
behind. Old trunks, etc., csespitose, rare. 
