May 1902.] Florida Myriostomas and Geasters 
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of new species of Fungi, monographing large or small groups, 
or preparing other mycological articles are invited to make use 
of its pages. If haply this Journal would be made the reposi¬ 
tory for all descriptions of new species and all that pertains to 
the taxonomy of North American Fungi, the advantage to 
workers and to students would be invaluable. 
It is hoped that issuing four numbers a year, in February, 
May, October and December, there may be given sufficiently 
prompt opportunity for publication of articles pertaining to any 
and every phase of mycology. 
W. A. Kellerman. 
Ohio State University, 
Columbus, May 20, 1902. 
NOTES ON SOME FLORIDA MYRiOSTOMAS AND 
GEASTERS. 
A. P. MORGAN. 
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More than a year ago, a correspondent, Mr. A. S. Her to let, 
sent me a “Christmas Box’’ of specimens from Florida. It was 
well stuffed and seeming to be a “miscellaneous lot” I stowed 
it away and neglected to look at it for several months. I finally 
got it down and went through it expending my leisure time for 
three or four days upon it. I take this opportunity to acknowl¬ 
edge my pleasure in the offering, to thank Mr. Bertolet for the 
same, and to make note of some of the choice things in the box. 
First, wrapped up together was a nest of small puff balls 
that looked very much like minute Indian Turnips ; they were 
smooth above, wrinkled all around the sides and rooted from the 
base; they excited my curiosity greatly. After much cutting and 
prying and pulling to pieces I discovered them to be incipient 
Myriostomas. I had never seen the young unopened plant before. 
There were some remarkable specimens of Geaster velutinus 
Morg.; they were large and fine, of much greater size than the 
type which Atkinson sent me from South Carolina. Although 
the species roots from the base like Geaster saccatus Fr., one of 
the specimens'had stripped off its epidermis and vaulted upon its 
tips exactly as in Geaster fornicatus Huds. The species is more 
abundant and widely distributed than we had before suspected. 
Lloyd has a line lot of it from Pennsylvania and the State Bota¬ 
nist notes it from New York. 
Geaster radicans B. & C. is about the size and has much the 
same appearance as Geaster fornicatus Huds. as described by 
Fries and which Mr. Bertolet sent me from Northern Michigan; 
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