PHALLUS RLBICUNDUS. 
There are eight eolleetions in the Curtis herbarium, all so old 
that really nothing can now be told about them save that Curtis did 
not consider it a rare plant. A note from Ravenel to Curtis regarding 
specimen (986 quoted by Berkeley) shows that Ravenel was familiar 
with the plant having a red stipe as its salient feature. 
GEASTER SACCATUS. 
The specimen that Berkeley cites shows that he included in 
saccatus the large plant we now have as triplex. This is in line with 
my own conclusions, (cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 148) that triplex is the large, 
robust, more perfectly developed form (revolute) of saccatus. 
GEASTER FIMBRIATUS. 
As there has always been a mystery to me about the American 
citations of Geaster fimbriatus, I was glad to see these plants of 
Berkeley and to be able to identify them positively as what we now 
know as Geaster velutinus (see Geastrae, p. 38). That it is Geaster 
fimbriatus of Fries, however, I very much doubt, as I have never seen 
this plant from Europe and all of my foreign correspondents concede 
the validity of our Geaster velutinus. But I was pleased to make an¬ 
other discovery in the Curtis collection. Geaster radicans (see 
Geastrae p. 31) as shown by the fine specimen, cited by Berkeley, is 
the perfect fornicate condition of Geaster velutinus. This plant which is 
quite common with us is generally a sessile, saccate species, (see 
Geastrae figs. 62 to 67) and has become known as Geaster velutinus. 
In the extreme south it grows larger and more robust, the fibrillose 
layer arches up over the mycelial, and the plant becomes truly forni¬ 
cate. In this condition it has been called Geaster radicans, which is a 
“prio r name,” if you wish to use a name based on the unusual rather 
than the usual condition of the plant. If you will compare figs. 57 
and 63 of the Geastrae pamphlet you may question if they are the same 
plant. There is no doubt now in my mind on the subject. 
GEASTER FORNICATUS. 
Specimen (2301) cited by Berkeley is typically G. coronatus as 
I have iUnstated it. 
There are a few other things that I have learned from a 
study of the Curtis collection, but the foregoing are the most important. 
NEW YORK. 
I had only time in New York, a couple of days before sailing, 
to write up these notes and make a short visit to the New York Botan¬ 
ical Garden. Professors Britton, Underwood and Earle are on a 
collecting trip to Cuba. I met Daniel T. Macdougal, who had just re¬ 
turned from Mexico; J. K. Small, busily engaged in his work on the 
southern Flora, now near completion; M. A. Howe, who is making a 
special study of the sea weeds; A. D. Selby, Wooster, O., who is at 
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