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the buffeting® of eighty-five winters is yet active in his favorite 
pursuit in this as well as in other departments of natural science. 1 ' 
A letter also preserved in the Clinton herbarium;from the 
venerable Dr. Michener is worthy of publication.. 
Tonghkenamon 24th of First Month, 1879. 
Hallidayr Jackson — Dear Friend: Thy letter was duly received and 
appreciated. Poor Michenera like Darlingtonia has had a hard life 
of it. M* A, Curtis named it Michenera at once if it could be made 
a good species, and added B. & C. as its authors. But in the mean¬ 
time Berkeley had appropriated the same name to a plant from the 
White Mountains, Michenera decipiens, B. & C. This has been abandon¬ 
ed as nothing more than an amorphous lichen. Curtis then wrote 
"Michenera will be better attached to No.1022" my plant. Of the 
genus Artocreas I have not any knowledge, and I presume this has 
been recently introduced, I supposes that Berkeley has made the 
change since the death of Curtis. I would like to know exactly on 
what authority. Be that as it may it is not at all likely that I 
shall get the genus. I must be content with the species, of which 
Curtis has given me a dozen or more. 
My Herbarium is always accessible and open for inspection. 
But the rough and tumble of eighty-five winters has obliterated 
much of the little knowledge I may once have possessed of its con¬ 
tents, a condition which would have been less annoying if the inter¬ 
est and inclination had gone with the knowledge. 
Very truly, 
E. Michener. 
REPORT ON SPECIMENS 
The acknowledgment of specimens, formerly issued under the 
title of "Letters" will in future be apart of Mycological Notes. 
The mimeograph process is now working well as evidenced by the last 
fifteen pages of No.62. At the start the process was all right but 
the producer was mostly wrong. 
My best thanks are extended to those who favor me by for¬ 
warding to me their collections of the fungi of their regions, and 
particularly those who live in the tropics. Every day it becomes 
easier to determine the specimens, for the common species have 
mostly taken definite form and I recognize the larger part of them 
at sight. Still each lot received brings considerable work, and 
though I am behind at present, I hope correspondents will not hesi¬ 
tate to send in their specimens on that account. They will all be 
worked over in time and those that are rare or of special interest 
will be published. All the large fungi are desired excepting the 
Agarics, We are particularly interested now in the little Laschias 
and in Xylarias and in tremellaceous plants. For some reason collec¬ 
tors do not usually send in Tremellas. They dry so poorly that the 
impression seems to be that it is not worth while drying them. But 
there is no class of specimens that makes better plants to work with 
than those of a tremellaceous nature. A few minutes soaking brings 
them back to the same condition as when collected. They may shrink 
to almost nothing in drying, but they are good specimens neverthe¬ 
less. We hope that our friends in the United States and Europe will 
