Through the kindness of our European correspondents we have fairly 
complete sets of the plants of other Gastromycetes genera, but 
Eycoperdon being the largest and most difficult we have postponed its 
study to the last and refrained from asking our foreign friends for 
specimens. We expect to get sets of European plants in the near 
future and shall then take up the study of our American material 
To attempt to work up the American material without having the 
European species for comparison we feel to be useless. Please do not 
fail to send us any Ey coper dons you may meet, as above all other 
Gastromycetes we are particularly anxious to get them. 
150— Note 6—GEASTER FENESTRATUS. 
This plant was received under the 
name Geaster Marchicus, which although 
a comparatively recent name is un¬ 
doubtedly the plant that Battara illustra¬ 
ted (1755) and Batsch illustrated and 
recorded (1783) under the name Eycoper¬ 
don fenestratum. As a matter of fact, 
it is probably the original of Geaster 
fornicatus being one of the figures that 
Hudson cites in his conglomerate citation 
of this species. We would give the 
name fornicatus however, to another 
species, (see Note 9) on account of it 
being universallv so applied by continen¬ 
tal botanists of Europe. Geaster fenes- 
tratus is more typically fornicate and 
really merits the name fornicatus more 
than does the plant that bears it. 
151— Note 7—GEASTER ASPER. 
We received this plant from Hungary under the name Geaster 
pseudo-mammosus. It is strongly characterized by the verrucose inner 
peridium, a feature that is well shown in 
Michelius’ old plate and is one of the ori¬ 
ginal Geasters published. The peculiar 
verrucose inner peridium is also shown in 
Schmidel’s plate, (t 82 Geaster corona- 
tus &c.) It has been described a number 
of times as a new species, namely, Geas¬ 
ter Berkeleyi, Massee, Geaster Drum- 
mondi, Berkeley, Geaster campester 
Morgan 
Fig. 34, 
Geaster asper. 
Specimen lrom A. P. Morgan, Ohio. 
Fig. 33. 
Geaster fenestratus. 
Specimen from Dr. 1. Hollos, Hungary. 
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