175—2nd EDITION OF PROF. 
ATKINSON’S BOOK 
It is very gratifying to learn that the demand for Atkinson’s 
“Mushrooms, edible, poisonous, etc." has exhausted the first edition 
within a year and that a second edition has been called for. It is to 
be hoped that this will stimulate others to work in the same lines and 
same methods to describe and especially to satisfactorily illustrate the 
plants they meet. Atkinson’s book covers only a small field. Every 
worker in mycology could issue a similar book and not touch the field 
that Atkinson has covered. To further illustrate the many plants that 
Atkinson has so well illustrated is useless but a pressing need exist 
for photo illustrations of hundred of plants that he has not met. We 
gave the first edition a lengthy review (See Myc. Notes, p. 55). We 
will simply add that in our opinion it is the most creditable book we 
have on the subject and every one interested must have it. 
Price $3.00, Andrus & Church, Ithaca, New York. 
176—HYPOCREA (PODOCREA) 
LLOYDII N. SP. *) 
By Rev. G. Bresadola. 
Habitu omnino Cordycipitis ; stroma longe stipita- 
tum, apice clavula perithecigera, obovato-oblonga, lp 2 
cm. circiter longa, 3 mm. circiter crassa, farcta, prae- 
ditum; peritheciis minimis, immersis, subglobosis, ostio- 
lis punctiformibus prominulis ubique tecta ; stipes 
farctus; glaber, tereti-tortuosus, albidus, 3 cm. longus, 
2 mm. crassus; asci cylindracei, octospori, in articulos 
1() soluti, 100 — 100 — 4-5 me.; artieuli subcuboideis 
subglobosi; 3-4 = 3-3 me. 
Habitat-? 
Cette espece est tres interessante. 
dyceps , mais fructification de Hypocrea. 
Aspect de Cor- 
Fig. 55. 
Hypocrea Lloydii. 
(Natural size ) 
*) A single specimen of this plant was picked up by me in West Virginia last summer. I 
made no microscopic examination of it but took it for a Clavaria. Had I taken the trouble to 
examine it I no doubt would have noted that the spores were in asci hence no relation to a 
Clavaria. I sent it with a photograph to Rev. G. Bresadola who decided that it is a novelty ” with 
habit of a Cordyceps and fructification of a Hypocrea.” Should any one meet it again I hope 
they will carefully observe if it grows parasitic on a tuber or larva. Not knowing at the time I 
collected it that its relationship would indicate such a habitat I carelessly pulled it up without 
observing this interesting point.—C. G. L,. 
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