years ago from dried specimens sent from this country. Not a species so described 
"has been recognized in the field by any worker with American Agarics. 
Montagne so described fifty or more agarics from Columbus. If Prof. Peck 
has ever recorded any of them in his thirty years collections we have over¬ 
looked his record. Does anyone believe that fifty agarics grew about Colum¬ 
bus, O., and that a large percentage of them do not occur in New York? Why 
should our literature be burdened with such descriptions? 
83—MANUAL. 
Workers with Myxomycetes are to be congratulated on the splendid 
hand book, “ The North American Slime-Moulds,” which has just been issued 
by Prof. Macbride. Why can we not have a manual of Agarics? We believe 
that but one man in this country. Prof. Chas. Peck, has a wide and critical 
knowledge of growing agarics, and we hope he can be induced to give us a 
manual. Prof. Peck’s knowledge of the growing plants would be invaluable 
if pre-ented in a complete form, and the interest in the subject is such now 
that the book would be issued at a profit. Prof. Peck has worked thirty years 
with the agarics of New York and knows them as does no other man and we 
repeat that a book embodying his observations concerning the growing plants 
would be the greatest boon that American students could have. 
84—NOTES. 
We note with pleasure in the April number of Rhodora, a paper on the 
Vermont Helvelke by Prof. E. A. Burt. Nothing can aid our knowledge of 
our native fungi as much as the systematic description of specimens occurring 
in localities, and we are in hopes to see more work of the same nature from 
Prof. Burt’s pen. 
Calvatia aurea (vide Myc. Notes, No. 22), seems to be a widely distrib¬ 
uted plant. W 7 e have received specimens from Edward P. Ely, of Connecticut, 
and from Dr. Gladfelter, of St. Louis. We have sent specimens to the leading 
mycologists of Europe who do not recognize it as anything with which they are 
familiar. We feel sure that it is an American species. The only question is, 
is it not rubrofiava of Cragin, but at the time we thought it was a different 
species be -ause it was of different shape from that species as described. We 
hope our readers will send in any yellow puffball they may meet, for by com¬ 
parison with specimens from different localities we may be enabled to form 
an opinion whether there are one or two yellow puffballs in this country. 
THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. 
By the time this leaflet reaches our readers, the writer will be well on 
his way for a winter’s trip to Samoa and other South Sea Islands. Arrange¬ 
ments have been made however so that the photographs can be ordered and 
will be sent out in our absence. 
85—PHOTOGRAPHS. 
We feel that the photographs that we are sending out 
at cost are doing much good in advancing the study of our 
native agarics. 1594 prints have been distributed. Four 
sets are now offered, 
Set No. 1—12 photos, mostly Lepiota.Si 20 
2—10 “ “ Pluteus. 1 00 
“ 3—10 “ various. 1 00 
“ 4—10 “ mostly Psalliota. 1 00 
C. G. LLOYD, Court and Plum Sts., CINCINNATI, 0. 
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