the Garden investigating latex in plants; J. H. Barnhart, editor of 
the Torrey Bulletin and W. A. Murrill, who is making a special study 
in the Polyporii. The signs on the inner and outer doors of the Mus¬ 
eum Building impress me as especially appropriate to the New York 
Garden - “Push” and “Pull.” Anyone who comes in touch with the 
active, energetic men at the head of the institution and notes what they 
have accomplished, will be impressed with the amount of “Push” 
shown on every hand. When you see their magnificent buildings, 
gardens and glass houses, finer I think, than I have seen at Kew or 
elsewhere, and stop to consider the cost, it is likewise evident that they 
have a strong financial “Pull.” 
AU REVOIR. 
I go direct to Paris and will locate at No. 107 Boulevard St. 
Michel. My readers will learn shortly the results of my study of the 
Gastromycetes in connection with Prof. Patouillard. 
203—”GEASTER COLUMNATUS”=MYRIOSTOMA 
COL1FORME. 
By N. PATOUILLARD. 
{deader columnatus Lev. Ch. da Mas. in Ann. Sc. Nat. (1846) p. 161.) 
Cette espece doit etre reunie a Myriostoma coliforme coniine 
simplesynonyme. Eneffet, tous les caracteres, tant exterieurs qu’inter- 
ieurs, sont exactement les memes dans les deux plantes. La 
dehiscence du peridium interne de G. columnatus a lieu par plusi urs 
ouvertures situees autour du sommet et non par uneouverture unique. 
Les spores sont de la meme dimension et ont les memes vermes que 
celles de M. coliforme ; le capillitium est egalement compose de fila¬ 
ments libres , attenues aux deux extremites, non rameux, mais 
montrant souvent des protuberances courtes, analogues aux epines du 
capillitium de beaucoup de Mycena^trum. La gleba, dans les deux cas, 
est traversee par des prolongements dresses, rameux, steriles partant 
de la portion inferieure de la paroi du peridium interne et s’elevant 
dans l’interieur de la cavite generale. 
Par le caractere du capillitium de filaments libres, le genre 
Myriostoma s’isole nettement de Geaster q t se rapproche de Mycenadrum 
et de B ovist a. 
204—HYPOCREA LLOYDII, 
When this species was described, Prof. Atkinson called our at¬ 
tention to the fact that the plant had been called in America, Hypocrea 
alutacea. (Cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 87, 1)9 and 110.) Prof. Patouillard 
tells me that in his opinion Hypocrea Lloydii as described and illus¬ 
trated on page 87 by Bresadola is a good species and very different 
from H. alutacea. He has shown me the type specimens of Tulasne 
and many others from Europe and it does not seem possible to me that 
the two plants are the same. 
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