186—ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SPECIMENS 
RECEIVED SINCE LAST REPORT. 
We desire to thank each contributor who has sent specimens 
aiding us to gain a knowledge of the Gastromycetes. We feel that 
we have a fair knowledge now of most of the genera excepting Lyco- 
perdon and Tylostoma. Their are many puzzles in these two genera 
yet to be solved. In collecting Lycoperdons, please collect abundant¬ 
ly of the mature forms and a few young to show the cortex. Where 
Lycoperdons grow it is often as easy to pick up a cigar box full as not. 
Always dry. Lycoperdons (simply laying them aside for few days) 
before sending. Two species of Lycoperdon (gemmatum and pyri- 
forme) are common and not specially desired, if you know them, but 
everything else particularly we are anxious to get. 
PROF. AIKEN, CINCINNATI. Elaphomyces decipiens. 
(Type from \ ittadini.)—L. ARNOULD, FRANCE. Calvatia caelata. 
—MISS BARRETT, JAMAICA. Calvatia (sterile base), Cyathus 
(unknown to me), Phallus indusiatus, Clathrus columnatus.—H. C. 
BEARDSLEE, N. C. Mitremyces Ravenelii, Lycoperdon echinatum, 
Geaster vellereus, Scleroderma Geaster, Mitremyces cinnabarinus, 
Geaster vulgaris? (Cleveland, O.), Lycoperdon, two specimens.— 
A. S. BERTOLET, CANADA. Polyporus volvatus, Helvella sphae- 
rospora, Geaster triplex.—E. BETHEL, COLO. Tylostoma subfus- 
cum, Catastoma subterranea, Bovista plumbea var. ovalispora, Bovista 
pila, Geaster minimus.—F. J. BRAENDLE, WASHINGTON, D. C. 
Clavaria pistillaris.—G. BRESADOLA, AUSTRIA. Lycoperdon 
candidum, L. hiemale, L. umbrinum, L. excipuliforme, L. atropur- 
pureum, L. pusillum, L. pratensis. — C. E. BROWN, WISC. Bovista 
• plumbea, Lycoperdon coloratuin, Geaster saccatus, Geaster triplex, 
Tarzetta verruculosa, Lycoperdon gemmatum, Scleroderma verruco- 
sum, Crucibulum vulgare, Cyathus striatus, Cyathus vernicosus.—• 
E. V. BURKE, CALIFORNIA. Helvella (Spe?). — MISS C. 
CASTLE, HAWAII. Lycoperdon near gemmatum.—F. C AVAR A, 
SICILY. Arcangelsilla Borziana, Gyrophragmium Delilei.—W. N. 
CLUTE, N. Y. Cyathus vernicosus, Cyathus stercoreus, Geaster 
minimus (La.)—CLARA E. CUMMINGS, MASS. Geaster hygro- 
metrieus, Mitremyces cinnabarinus, Lycoperdon pyriforme, Lycoper¬ 
don (2 species), Scleroderma vulgare var. verrucosum, Lycoperdon 
gemmatum, Cyathus striatus, Crucibulum vulgare, Cyathus Lesueurii. 
—MRS. GEO. M. DALLAS, PENN. Lycoperdon pyriforme, L. cru- 
ciatum, L. gemmatum, Scleroderma verrucosum, Crucibulum vulgare, 
Geaster hygrometricus.—SIMON DAVIS, MASS. Scleroderma ver¬ 
rucosum.—E. P. ELY, TEXAS. Secotium (unknown to me), Lyco¬ 
perdon (2 specimens), Bovistella Ohiensis, Mycenastrum spinulosum, 
Cyathus stercoreus (Woodbridge, Ct.), Calvatia rubroflava (Westville, 
Ct.), Bovista plumbea (Minn.) — WM. FAWCETT, JAMAICA. 
Scleroderma vulgare.—O. E. FISCHER, MICH. Lactarius calceolus, 
Geaster (new to me), Scleroderma verrucosum, Scleroderma vulgare, 
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