Mar., 1887.] 
NOTES ON FLO Hi DA FUNGI. 
Peck ; Carolina, Schweinitz. Pileus an inch or more in breadth, stipe 
about two inches in length. The pileus is generally grayish-brown or 
mouse-colored, though sometimes nearly white; the dusty, tlocculent 
covering is grayish-brown ; the stipe is whitish and more or less mealy, 
with the slight bulb at first clothed like the pileus. 
28. Agaricus pubescens, Scliw. Syn. Car. 17. 
Pileus yellow, covered with a thin pubescence ; the margin involute; 
stipe short, at first white, becoming yellowish, bulbous, bulb thick ; the 
volva evanescent; lamella} white. In grassy grounds; rare. Carolina, 
Schweinitz. Stipe short, scarcely exceeding an inch in length. No one 
appears to have met with this species since the time of Schweinitz, hence 
we are unable to add anything to his brief description. 
NOTE.—AUTHORITY IN NOMENCLATURE. 
In the Botanical Gazette for November, 1886, is an article on the 
“ Botanical Characters of the Black Rot, Physalospora Bidwillii , Sacc.,” 
by F. Lamson Scribner. I am not aware that Saccardo has ever laid 
claim to Physalospora Bidwillii , which was first published by me in Torr. 
Bull, as Sphaeria Bidwillii. The fact that Saccardo included the species 
in question in his genus Physalospora does not make it his, nor has he 
anywhere advanced such a claim, but in the Sylloge and elsewhere puts • 
the name of the original author in a parenthesis with his own name 
following, where he has placed a species in a different genus from that 
in which it was originally published. Dr. Winter, in his revision of the 
Uredinece, etc., does not place his name after the parenthesis, and Fries, 
in his Epicrisis , does not use even the parenthesis, in which he is also, for 
the most part, followed by Cooke. In fact, the omission of the name of 
the original author of a species and the substitution of another in its 
stead is no more excusable than would be the appropriation of any other 
piece of property belonging to another by simply giving it another name. 
_ J. B. Ellis. 
NOTES ON FLORIDA FUNGI.—No. 11. 
BY W. \V. CALKINS, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 
The following species were collected by me from November, 1886, to 
March, 1887, all within ten miles of Jacksonville. My success has been 
a surprise to myself in the number of species obtained in territory 
previously worked over by me. One result lias been the addition of a 
dozen or more species, new to science, including those collected last 
winter. My learned friend, Mr. Ellis, has determined nearly all the 
species, the exceptions being some Agarics and also a few leaf fungi, 
readily named from examples in the N. A. F. of Ellis. We have worked 
together, making no definite and final determinations until sure, and 
even yet have on hand a number of most valuable but to us, as yet. 
unknown species, some of which may be new: if not, then very rare 
