MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
Page 1099 
Miss Annie Lorain Smith is supposed to have worked them out as to 
England but excepting her I do not know, any one who has really made 
any study of the subject. If I am mistaken and ther® is any one who 
knows them I hope he will not be too modest to write me for I have 
numbers of specimens I should be glad to get named. It is embarrass¬ 
ing to me to receive so many specimens in families about which I do 
not know, anything at all and which I have no way of learning. 
PROBLEMS IN MYCOLOGY 
The genus Mesophelia,(Cfr. Myc. Notes page 639 Pig. 910 and 
640 Fig. 912 ). The genus Mesophellia as noted by us more than once 
is one of the most curious genera, known. It is endemic in Australasia. 
The original species from Tasmania had greenish gleba and a core to 
the peridium by numerous ligaments. C, C. Brittlebank, Australia, 
sent me a collection with a free core and pale pinkish gleba that we 
named Mesophellia castanea* Mr Rodway senda two collections, 1050 
and 1055 with these characters just reversed. The former has greenish 
gleba and practically free core, the latter pink gleba and core with 
ligaments. What are we to do about it? Are we to make four species 
instead of two or are we to conclude that the characters on which our 
two species are drawn are of no value and reduce them to one. 
Either horn of the dilemma is not satisfactory or convincing. 
NOTE 1045,- A NEW USE FOR THE ADVERTISING CUSTOM IN MYCOLOGY.- 
A correspondent who does not indorse my views on the binomial alone 
to represent a plant name proposes an advantage in quoting authors 1 
names which has been suggested before but I believe not printed. 
When certain authors names are ’'written 1 ' after plant names it indicates 
on the face that the name "written” is "wrctten”. "We had a. McGinty 
named Carl Mueller in the moss, world, but though he did some harm, we 
soon learned when saw the mystic initials ”C. M." after the moss 
to require some more reliable verification. " If there were a lawv re¬ 
quiring a. man to write his name after the species so as to show, on 
the face that his work has no value unless confirmed, it might be use¬ 
ful, and the average mycologist would not get so much pleasure as at 
present out of this childish conceit. As Hollis Webster well put it- 
"children like to see their names on their underclothes" and there is 
about the same logic in writing an author's name after one of the 
"mihi" species. The "mihi" authors used to be familiar in days gone 
by but they have been ridiculed out of it a.nd are now excinct. The 
"n.s." authors are now their legitimate and current successors. 
NOTE 1046 - POLYPORUS METALLICUS.- The common Pfiyporus 
lucidus has, as every one knows, a~ shiny, dark reddish, iaocate sur¬ 
face, Sometimes there reach me specimens with a. dull 1 mat surface 
with a,metallic cast. While of course it is only a.form or perhaps 
condition of Polyporus lucidus, we have labeled, our specimen as above, 
Polyporus lucidus is an annual but I have found it in the spring when 
it has wintered over and perhaps the surface difference of some speci¬ 
mens is due to this cause. 
NOTE 1047 - APPRECIATION?- When we note the beautiful plates 
of bugs, plants, etc. now being issued by the State Museum of New 
