Since the pamphlet appeared my views have changed in refer¬ 
ence to two or three species. I now know that Geaster “saccatus’’ is 
not distinguished by having a globose, unexpanded form as we stated 
at the time the pamphlet was issued. I believe that G. fimbriatus and 
G. saccatus are practically the same plant. I am becoming more 
strongly convinced every day that Bresadola is right and G. Morganii 
is at the best but a silicate mouthed form of G. lageniformis. 
“With the exception of G. Berkeleyi Massee and G. Michelia- 
nus Smith, the British species have all been found in America.”— 
British Journal of Botany. 
This I have never stated but on the contrary, my views as ex¬ 
pressed are that G. Berkeleyi is a synonym for G. asper and that it is 
found in America. 
194-CUI BONO. 
Botanical writers who insist on giving personal authorities after 
the names of plants involve themselves in many curious errors. Es¬ 
pecially is this so when they try to apply the rules of priority without 
knowing all the facts. Let us cite an instance. Hudson, an English 
botanist, called the large, fornicate species of Geaster, which is the 
only one we have any evidence of occuring in England, Lycoperdon 
fornicatum. Fries met the little pine-loving species that grows so 
common in Sweden, and supposing it to be Hudson’s plant, called it 
by his specific name, Geaster fornicatus. In addition to making this 
mistake, he drew his description mostly from an inaccurate cut and 
described it as having a sulcate mouth, a feature possessed by no 
known fornicate species of Europe. Fries is probably excusable in 
not knowing that his species was not the same as Hudson’s, but there 
is no excuse in these modern days, after the matter has all been written 
up and explained for any person to use such a mongrel citation as 
“Geaster fornicatus (Hudson) Fries.’’ The names are the same, by 
reason of errors in the past, but the plants are entirely different. Still 
some modern authors do not seem to care anything about such facts as 
these. In their strife for names in keeping with their ideas of priority, 
it matters little it seems whether the plants are the same or not as long 
as the name is the same. But as Lycoperdon fornicatum of Hudson is 
one plant, and Geaster fornicatus of Fries, is another, will somebody 
tell us what “Geaster fornicatus (Hudson) Fries’’ is? 
195—HYPOCREA ALUTACEA. 
By Prof. W. G. Farlow. 
Hypocrea alutacea was collected by me at Shelburne, N. H., in 
September 1891. It grew in very small quantity under Finns Strobus 
where was also growing abundantly Clavaria Ligula. Those interested 
in the determination of this plant should consult Cornu, Note seu 1’ 
Hypocrea alutacea in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, XXVI, 33, 1879. I 
have never found the species except in the case just mentioned, and, 
although the presence of Clavatia Ligula has been noted by others in 
connection with the Hypocrea, I was not able to trace any direct con¬ 
nection between the two. 
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