some rights in the matter of names, and that there is no justice in 
burdening a plant which has white or straw-colored spores with the 
name “blood-spored.” Bulliard blundered in assuming that as the 
plant was red, its spores were red, or at least was careless in naming 
it, which is not ground enough for us to forever flaunt this blunder. 
As a matter of history it is interesting, as a matter of justice, both to 
the plant and to Bulliard let us forget it as soon as we can. 
128—PHYEEOPORUS RHODOXANTHUS. 
The good wishes of our friend Dr. Herbst, when we referred 
this plant to Flammula, that it was a good resting place and he hoped 
it would stay there, has not borne fruit, for already we find the plant 
under a new name. Bresadola has done an inestimable service in 
settling for once and all that the American and European plants are 
the same. Here again “Mycological Notes” have aided in the good 
work, for it was our description of the plant (see Myc. Notes, No. 87) 
that first drew Bresadola’s attention to Schweinitz' species, and he wrote 
us for specimens of our plant. Bresadola refers it to a new genus 
Phylloporus established for it by Quelet and described as having gills, 
“venosely connected at the base or often porose-anasto mating" (italics 
ours). 
Strictly speaking, this description does not fit our American 
plant, the gills of which are admirably described by Atkinson, “A few 
are forked toward the base, and the surface and the space between 
them are marked by anastomating veins forming a reticulum suggestive 
of the hymenium of the Polyporaceae. The character is not evident with¬ 
out the use of a hand lensT (Italics ours). Still no one who has seen 
Bresadola’s figure and knows the American plant, can question the 
essential identity of the two, notwithstanding the European plant is 
decidedly polypoid and the American plant only suggestively polypoid. 
We say no one, we mean no one who does not cast his species in iron 
moulds, and who recognizes plants as living beings capable of slight 
changes according to their environments. We are quite content to 
place this plant in a new genus, although it is going to embarrass 
future writers to fit the American plant to the generic characters. Our 
plant never was a very good Flammula, and a no better Paxillus. 
129—PROF. ATKINSON’S BOOK. 
We hail with delight the appearance of this book, because we 
believe it is the beginning of a new era in the study of American 
Fungi. When our writers begin to appreciate the fact that it is their 
duty to their co-workers to so describe and illustrate the plants they 
consider that others meeting them can feel a certainty of the determi¬ 
nation, then we are getting on safe ground and real progress will be 
made. Prof. Atkinson’s work is not exhaustive. He has wisely con¬ 
fined himself to plants he has met, and studied as they grew, and re¬ 
frained from entering that shadowy world of recorded traditions con¬ 
cerning American agarics largely based on mummified remains. The 
illustrations of the book are superb, mostly photo reproductions, and 
