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ORIENT. 
As evidence of the wide-spreading in¬ 
terest that is now being taken in the study of 
Gastromycetes, we reproduce herewith a letter 
received from Mr. T. Yoshinaga, of Japan. 
Many of our readers will be interested in Mr. 
Yoshinaga’s letter and the information that 
he gives. It is an evidence of the rapid strides 
in all directions, and especially in science, that 
our young nation of the Orient is getting 
quite proficient in botanical matters. A regu¬ 
lar botanical journal is issued, which is received 
at the Lloyd Library, and is printed very much 
as the accompanying fac-simile, and is, no 
doubt, full of valuable information. We have 
a complete set of the publication, some ten or 
fifteen volumes, and all who wish to read it 
can have access to it at our library. You 
will, no doubt, be interested in the information 
as given by Mr. Yoshinaga in his communica¬ 
tion of July 18th, reproduced herewith. 
225—GEASTER FORNICATUS, from this country. 
We have received from Mr. W. H. Long, Jr., Denton, Texas, 
specimens of what we consider the true Geaster fornicatus of England, 
as illustrated in Fig. 55, page 29, of the Geastrae pamphlet. We 
think this plant occurs but very rarely in this country, and that prob¬ 
ably this is its first collection. We have seen no specimens of it in 
the Eastern collections, nor has it ever reached us from any other cor¬ 
respondent. The records of “Geaster fornicatus” from the Eastern 
states are, we think, of a very different plant, which we have called 
Geaster coronatus in the pamphlet. 
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