In my opinion, the prevailing custom of attaching the names of 
writers to the names of plants serves no purpose unless it be to gratify 
the vanity of authors. It results in a great deal of very bad work, 
and innumerable synonyms. 
It is however, the prevailing custom and I am well aware that it 
will not be discontinued or even modified because of the fact that I. 
personally, neither believe it proper nor to the interest of science. A 
number of my correspondents are willing to accept my determination 
of Gastromycetes who desire to use or publish the same, but who feel 
that the names I give are not complete inasmuch as I do not attach to 
each binomial a personal name. 
For the benefit of these parties I herewith append such a list of 
the principal species that have been considered in Mycological Notes. 
In making the list I record the name of the person who proposed 
the specific name and who I feel in most instances is entitled to all the 
advertisement f To place his name in parenthesis as though he were 
a secondary factor and then add the name of the individual who merely 
puts the species under the generic name is carrying the advertising 
feature much too far. To substitute for the first author the name of 
the second is little less than fraud. We strongly approve Prof. Ellis’ 
remarks on the subject, to wit; “The piratical practice of omiting the 
first name and substituting the second in its place cannot be too 
strongly condemned’’ 
Those plants that are so closely related to others that they are 
perhaps best called sub-species, varieties or even forms, are indicated by 
a star (*). (See article on page 7 of this index.) 
' Arachnion album, Schweinitz. 
Arachnion Drummondii, Berkeley. 
Battarrea phalloides, Dickson. 
Battarrea Stevenii,* Liboschitz. 
Battarreopsis artini, Hennings. 
Bovista brunnea,* Berkeley. 
Bo vista minor,* Morgan. 
Bovista nigrescens, Persoon. 
Bovista pila, Berkeley. 
Bovista plumbea, Persoon. 
Bovista tomentosa, Yittadini. 
Bovistella ammophila, Leveille. 
Bovistella aspera, Leveille. 
Bovistella australiana, Lloyd. 
Bovistella dealbata, Lloyd. 
Bovistella glabescem, Berkeley. 
Bovistella Gunnii, Berkeley. 
Broomeia congregata, Berkeley. 
Calvatia caeLta, Bulliard. 
Calvatia Candida, Rostkovius. 
Calvatia Fontanesii,* Montague. 
Calvatia gigantea, Batsch. 
CMvatia blacina, Berkeley. 
Calvatia olivacea, Cooke. 
Calvatia sculpta, Harkness. 
Castoreum radiratum, Cookm 
Catastoma anomalum, Cooke. 
Catastoma circumscissum, Berkeley. 
Catastoma hyalothrix, Cooke. 
Catastoma bypogaeum, Cooke. 
Catastoma MuGleri, Berkeley. 
Catastoma pedicellatum, Morgan. 
Catastoma subterraneum, Peck. 
Cauloglossum transversarium. Bose. 
Chlamydopus Meyenianus, Klotzscli. 
Clavogaster novo-zelandicus, Hen¬ 
nings. 
Dictyocephalos curvatus, White. 
Piploct stis Wrightii, Berkeley. 
Gallacea Scleroderma, Cooke. 
Geaster Archeri, Berkeley. 
Geaster arenarius, Lloyd. 
f When the article bears the name of two authors (not an unusual custom with those who 
wish to secure double advertisement , we append the name only of the author who, as we under- 
tand it, wrote the article. When one writes an article and another puts his name to it as we 
uspect in a number of instances, we can only be guided by the record 
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