298—Minor Errors. 
Every line written in Mycologieal Notes is original. I do not 
compile or copy. Such mistakes as occur are my own. My aim is to 
first learn my subject and then write it off-hand. In so doing I not 
infrequently transpose names, and in looking over published work I 
sometimes notice errors of this nature. For example the following are 
to be cited : “Geaster lageniformis” Geastrae p. 11, for Geaster flori- 
formis, “ Nidularia striatus” Gastromycetes, p 10 and fig. 19 for Cya- 
thus striatus. “ Bovista debreceniensis ” p. 171 for Globaria debre- 
ceniensis. “Geaster stellatum ” p. 171 for Lycoperdon stellatum. 
“ Diploderma indicum ” p. 181 for Diploderma tuberosum. These 
errors are all incidental in the text, and are self evident on their face. 
No doubt if I should compile my work from books in front of me, 
fewer mistakes of this kind would occur. 
I published that the proper spelling was Secotium rubigenum 
not Secotium nubigenum. That was a mistake of mine, not an un¬ 
intentional slip as the previous. In the New York Botanical Garden 
I read the label of Harkness’ specimen Secotium rubigenum, and 
thought it correct, as I connected it with the word rubus and supposed 
it referred to the red color of the plant. I took Saccardo’s spelling 
Secotium nubigenum as a typographical error. It is not as I have 
since learned. The plant was originally so published. 
In the last issue there are a number of proof reader’s errors as 
“Schimidel” for Schmidel and the expression “ No less than sixteen 
different collections of the little pine-woods species is in the British 
Museum” should not have been overlooked. 
299—A CONIDIAL SPORED GASTROMYCES. 
A great many fungi under certain conditions or at certain stages 
develop conidial spores. It is very common in the Tremellinae, well 
- known in the Agaricineae. the Polyporae etc. We believe, however, 
there is no record of conidial spores in the Gastromycetes. 
The perfect forms of all Hymenomycetes (and Gastromycetes are 
not exceptions) bear their spores on special organs called basidia. 
These are the normal spores of the plant. 
Many fungi however, in addition to these basidia spores, pro¬ 
duce spores which grow on the hyphae forming the tissue of the plant. 
These are called conidial spores. 
There is in the Museum at Paris a small fragment of the type of 
Catastoma juglandaeformis.* As soon as I looked at the spores I 
noted that the long peculiar pedicels (fig. 80) were entirely different 
from those of any other specimen 
of the genus I had ever seen. 
They are unusually long, they are 
colored, they are uniform in thick¬ 
ness, and blunt at the ends. They 
are in every respect similiar to the 
eapillitium threads with which they are mixed. ___ 
* Bovista juglandaeformis (Jour. Bot. 88-1'lti). 
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