158— Note 13—SCLERODERMA VERRUCOSUM. 
It seems a kind of paradox to call the little 
smooth species “verrueosum” and this is one of the 
eases where a plant should be renamed and the old 
name forgotten. It is a very frequent species in 
our country, widely distributed and fairly constant 
as to form and size. Both Bresadola and Patouillard 
have determined our plant as verrueosum and we 
have just received specimens of the same plant from 
Europe so labeled from Patouillard. We cannot go 
behind such authorities. Though we have never 
seen Bulliard’s plate we can depend upon it that 
Patouillard has it right. But we cannot understand 
how Fries can cite “Grev. t. 48 bona” for that to 
our mind is evidently rot this plant but the one we 
have illustrated Fig. 48. Prof. Ellis always deter¬ 
mined it S- Bovista and if I am not mistaken he told me that was 
Cooke’s determination. Prof. Trelease seems to have been the only 
American author that has it right. It is probably S. lycoperdoides of 
Schweinitz but the specimen is missing from his collection. 
Fig 38. 
Scleroderma verrueosum. 
159— Note 14—GEASTER 
RADICANvS. 
Our thanks are especially due to 
Mrs. Patterson of the division of 
'Vegetable Pathology, of Washington, 
for a specimen of this beautiful plant, 
which was collected on a cedar log in 
Florida, (the collector’s name not 
preserved.) It is really the most 
typically fornicate species we have in 
this country, but it is not Geaster 
fornicatus of Europe (as labeled), nor 
indeed is there any record of its occur¬ 
rence in Europe. This plant was dis¬ 
tributed by Ravenel, No. 103 and is 
we think the same plant that is pre¬ 
served in Schweinitz’ herbarium under 
the name Geaster quadrifidum (sup¬ 
posed in Europe to be a synonym for 
fornicatus.) All its stations are 
Southern and we believe it does not 
occur in our Northern States. 
Fig. 39. 
Geaster radicans. 
Specimen from Mrs. Flora Patterson. 
