PUFF BALL LETTER No. 3. 
Cincinnati, July 1904. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SPECIMENS RECEIVED FROM 
UNITED STATES AND CANADA, 
The following persons who have kindly sent us specimens since our last acknow¬ 
ledgment, will be continued on the mailing list of Mycological Notes. The publication 
is issued principally with the object of interesting collectors to pick up specimens and 
send them to our museum and we cannot agree to continue the publication to those 
who do not take this interest in the work. In the past we have asked solely for “ Puff- 
Balls ” but we will be glad now to accumulate material in other families. Anything of 
a firm texture, that preserves its characters when dry. such as Polyporaceae, Thelepho- 
raceae, Hydnaceae, etc. will be gladly received. We cannot offer to name these speci¬ 
mens, for outside of the Gastromycetes, we have only a superficial knowledge of the 
subject. Material received will be sorted, labeled and preserved in our Museum, and 
if we never study it critically, the material will be in good form and somebody else 
some day will probably do so. 
But we want suitable material for study. It is an easy task to take a basket, 
and pick up sticks that have fungi growing on them, and to cut off the hard fungi from 
logs, etc. We ask however, that our friends do not send us dried specimens of the 
fleshy agarics, etc. or of fleshy fungi in general. 
A few families such as Helvellas, Morchejlas, Geoglossums, etc. which have 
peculiar shapes and spores and can be studied from dried specimens we will be glad to 
receive if carefully dried, but the great family of fleshy agarics, Clavarias, etc. are of no 
.use to us when dried. 
In the following list we have omitted a number of Lycoperdons and Tylostomas 
which families have not been well worked up as yet. We hope however, to make a 
thorough study and publication during the present summer of the large material which 
has accumulated. 
LIST OF SPECIMENS EEOEIVED FROM THE UNIIED STATES 
AND CANADA SINCE LAST REPORT. 
D. A. BALDWIN, South Hancock, Maine Lycoperdon gemmatum, Lycoperdon 
cruciatum. 
D. D. BALDWIN, Hawaii : —Trametes Persoonii, Lepiota cepaestipes, Scleroderma 
verrucosum. 
J. M. BATES, Callaway, Neb. :—Tylostoma poculatum (type), Tylostoma cam- 
pestre, Tylostoma subfuscum, Catastoma subterraneaum, Polyporus adustus, Geaster 
Drummondii. 
A. S. BERTOLET, Spring Hill, Ala: —Polysaccum crassipes, Scleroderma flavidum, 
Tylostoma mammosum, Geaster saccatus, Geaster saccatus, var. major, I’olystictus 
Schweinitzii, Hydnangium Ravenelii, Mitremyces cinnabarinus, Cauloglossum trans- 
versarium (fine lot). 
