152— Note 8—GEASTER STRIATULUS. 
This is the plant that was distributed (No. 109) in Ellis’ exsic- 
cataes which we have examined in Philadelphia, Washington and New 
York under the name Geaster mammosus. On noting the specimens, 
I could not understand how Morgan could have referred this little 
plant with the rigid incurved peridium to Fries’ Geaster umbilicatus, 
which is described as having a soft, flaccid peridium and I took the 
question up with him during a recent conversation. 
He hunted up the original specimens 
Ellis had sent him under this label 
and they are unquestionably correctly 
determined, Geaster umbilicatus, (and 
they are the only specimens we have 
ever seen of this plant), but they are 
not the plants that Ellis distributed 
under the name mammosus, in his 
Fi s- 35 - exsiccatse, at least in the three copies 
Geaster striatuius. that I have examined. 
Specimen from Dr. Hollos, Hungary. 
158—Note 9—GEASTER FORNICATUS. 
If there is any name that is well established by custom it is of this 
plant. To illustrate we have received it from France, Austria, Hungary 
and Sweden under the above name and we have seen a dozen or more 
exsiccatse from Continental Europe, 
always the same t} r pical little plant. 
Rowell tells me it is the most common 
Geaster in Sweden. We question very 
much if it is the original Geaster forni¬ 
catus, or indeed, that the original Geaster 
fornicatus of Hudson can now be estab¬ 
lished since the author gave such conflict¬ 
ing citations. 
The name is so firmly established by 
use in Continental Europe that it is un¬ 
wise to attempt to change it. The plant 
that Massee illustrates under this name, 
and of which we have received imperfect 
specimens from England, we have not 
been able to locate, but it is not, we think, 
the plant in question. 
Fig. 36. 
Geaster fornicatus. 
Specimens from Rev. G. Bresadola, Tirol. 
154— Note 10—GEASTER EIMBATUS. 
While this is supposed to be one of the most common plants of 
this country, we are unable to reconcile our frequent plant with the 
specimens of Geaster limbatus received from Europe and we take our 
common plant to be Geaster rufeseens (stipitate form.) We have 
received what we would call limbatus only from Mr. Stuntz, of Wisconsin 
and Professor Macbride, of Iowa. 
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