— 205 — 
less pubescent, but unilaterally iis tube prolruding, tlie style gla- 
brous, the fruit surpassed by the calyx, tbe seeds smaller blackish 
outside with much narrower margin. 
Glossostigma trichodes. 
Erect ; leavesin tufts, from linear-to eliiptic-spatular ; peduncles 
very long, thinly capillulary, numerously crowded together; lobes 
of the calyx very unequal, much shorter than the tube; corolla- 
lobes conspicuously extending beyond the calyx, unfringed ; 
stamens four, their upper portion emerged ; style conspicuous ; 
capsule enclosed ; seeds ellipsoid, their testule subtle clathrate- 
streaked. 
Near Parker’s Range; Edwin Merrell. 
This plant is in habit very different from the three other Glosso- 
stigmas, inasmuch as the leaves and peduqcles are close together in 
great numbers, no creeping offshoots being observable on the spé¬ 
cimens received. The flower stalks are generally several inches long, 
and it would appear, that the plant grew submergedly, and elon- 
gated ils peduncles in the striving of its fïowers, to reach the sur¬ 
face. In most other respects this Glossostigma approaches very 
near to G. drummondi. The extreme thinness of the peduncles 
renders them so laxe as hardly to be able to bear the weight of the 
flower. 
— Extra-print from the Victorian Naturaliste December, 1892. 
TAXONOMIE 
Les affinités naturelles des Coprins 
En général, les mycologues placent les Coprins tout à la fin de la 
famille des Agaricinés, comme des êtres spéciaux, distincts, dif¬ 
ficiles à rattacher à une autre réalisation. 
Quelques observations nous suffiront pour établir combien peu 
rationnelle est cette classification, qui brise les rapports les plus 4 
naturels des êtres, et pour montrer que le genre Coprinus est beau¬ 
coup plus rapproché des calycarpes leucospores et chromospores 
