109-A New Work ON AMERICAN AGARICS. 
Our friend, Dr. Herbst, has most agreeably surprised us in 
issuing a book of the fungi of his locality, entitled “Fungal Flora of 
the Lehigh Valley.” We have known Dr. Herbst for several years, 
and while we knew him to be an earnest student of fungi we did not 
know that he intended publishing a book on the subject. His work we 
consider the most helpful single volume that has ever been issued on 
American Agarics, because it considers and describes most of the com¬ 
mon plants (those met by everyone.) All w 7 ho are making a study of 
fungus should procure it. Send $1.75 to the publishers, Berkemeyer, 
Keck & Co., Allentown, Pa. 
NO—NOTES. 
At the time we considered Pluteus nanus (vide Myc. Notes, No. 
32), we had met it but rarely. This season we have collected it a 
number of times. It varies much in size and grows both on the ground 
and on logs. We are now convinced that “Pluteus tortus” (vide Myc. 
Notes, No. 33) is only a synonym for the plant. 
We are informed that the spores of the recently described Clito- 
cybe tarda are pink. Hence the plant belongs to the genus Clitopilus. 
Ill—PHOTOGRAPHS. 
The figures that we publish in this issue will supply the need of 
photographs to many who have been subscribing to them. Still we 
know there are persons who will desire to continue receiving the sets 
of original prints from our plates. In this connection it is a genuine 
pleasure to receive such a letter of appreciation as the following : 
My Dear Mr. Lloyd: 
I am so entirely delighted with a set of your fungus photographs 
that has just come to me I feel it would be ungrateful not to thank you 
for the pleasure of owning them and for the wonderful fidelity and 
beauty of the photographs. I am not yet making a study of the sub¬ 
ject, so I cannot yet make these representations useful. I can only ap¬ 
preciate them. No plate that I have ever seen even faintly approaches 
the marvelous faithfulness of these photographs. It is a joy to see 
difference of texture, and of structure, so perfectly indicated. One can 
almost see color. I thank you for the privilege of placing in my hands 
such helps to the study of fungi. 
Very sincerely yours, 
CORNELIA P. STONE, 
Sept. 5, 1900. Hampton Falls, N. Y. 
The following sets are now offered: 
Set No. 1—12 photos, mostly Lepiota.$1 20 
“ “ 2—10 “ “ ' Pluteus.1 00 
3—10 “ various.1 00 
1—10 “ mostly Psalliota.1 00 
5—10 “ mostly Collybia . . . ..1 00 
0. 6. LLOYD, Court and Plum Sts., CINCINNATI, 0. 
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