MYCOLOGICAL NOTES. 
BY O. G. LLOYD, 
No. 16. 
CINCINNATI, 0. MARCH, 1904. 
265—NOTES OF TRAVEL. 
PARIS. 
As I have remained in Paris for three months, trying to get a 
little practical knowledge of the French language, one can hardly call 
it ‘‘traveling.” The mycological interest of Paris, as indeed of 
France, centers around Prof. Patouillard, who is conceded to be among 
the best informed men on the subject in Europe. As I had the 
pleasure of meeting him on a previous visit to Paris, it was not like 
meeting a stranger. I have seen much of Prof. Patouillard since this 
visit to Paris and it was a great pleasure to me when I became able to 
talk with him a little (without the aid of an interpreter) in “broken” 
French. He has been very kind to me. The Eycoperdons of Europe 
have always been and are yet a puzzle to me, but many points have been 
cleared up through the information that Prof. Patouillard has extended. 
Prof. Patouillard is a man I should judge about fifty years of age. He 
resides with his family (wife and two young lady daughters) at Neuilly 
which is just outside the walls of Paris. A pharmacist by profession, 
he is confined rather closely to his business, but each Tuesday and Sat- 
< urday he is to be found at the museum in Paris studying fungi, which 
is his manner of recreating. Monsieur Hariot, the curator of the 
museum of cryptogamic botany at Paris, is a most genial and accommo¬ 
dating man. Never have I had better facilities to work than at this 
museum. The key to the museum was literally placed at my seivice 
with full permission to study, photograph and make spore mounts of 
the many rare specimens in the museum. As the museum contains 
the specimens of Tulasne, Corda, Leveille, Montague, as well as spec¬ 
imens sent to them by Berkeley and others particularly by Vittadini, it 
is needless to say they are of the greatest historical importance. I 
shall always be grateful for the many courtesies extended to me by 
Monsieur Hariot. 
Monsieur Rolland resides at Neuilly, a close neighbor to Prof. 
Patouillard. Commemoi he is a “ celibataire a man of means, evidently, 
who finds his amusement in photography and mycology. He has the 
finest private library on mycology I have ever seen with possibly one 
exception, that of Prof. Farlow at Cambridge. At a dinner given by 
Monsieur Rolland I made the acquaintance of Monsieur E. Boudier. 
Monsieur Boudier, now well advanced in years, is a well known writer 
on mycology in France. His specialty is the Discomycetes, but he is 
equally at home with the Agarics and, indeed, all the fungi of France.. 
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