us _Reticularia_
certain specimens received from M. Roze of Paris. Thirteen years later
in correspondence with M. Roze, Mr. Wingate satisfied himself that the
specimens discovered by Roze were the same as our common enteridium. He
therefore, _l. c._, applied to our American forms the name they have
widely borne, _E. rozeanum_. Mr. Lister, _Jour. of Botany_, Sept. '91,
applied the Rostafinskian name to certain English specimens. Thereafter
to be known as _Reticularia lobata_ Rost. and so fixed the status of
that species. From all the literature before us it appears that Mr.
Lister was right. _R. lobata_ List. (now _Liceopsis lobata_ List.)
Torr., occurs in various parts of Europe, while our American species of
_Enteridium_ is yet to be discovered on that side of the sea!

Were the latter native to the old world at all, it had surely been seen
long ago. It is large and fine, and could not have escaped the famous
collectors of the last two hundred years. Although it has been sent by
students from this side of the ocean to Europe for more than thirty
years, it has not even adventitiously appeared.

It therefore appears that our American species is known to Europe
through Mr. Wingate's reference only.

Twenty years ago in correspondence with Mr. Wingate it was learned that
the material received by him from M. Roze was but a small fragment,
crushed flat, and even this was at that time no longer in evidence. This
specimen was itself _not part of the gathering submitted to
Rostafinski_; but only the fragment of something _appearing in 1890 in
the same locality_!

... "something not the same,
But only like its forecast in men's dreams."

When we further reflect that the spores of species of several of the
forms now in review, _Tubifera_, _Reticularia_, _Enteridium_, are not
without difficulty distinguished, it is easy to see that Mr. Wingate's
specific reference has narrow foundations to say the least. It seems now
likely that Father Torrend's _Liceopsis_, _Reticulara lobata_ R., M.
Roze's aftermath, and all, are but the depauperate forms of some
tubifera!

_E. rozeanum Wing._, is therefore the synonym for an ill-defined
something in Western Europe and need not further here concern us as far
material reference goes.

In any case, what induced Mr. Wingate to pull Rostafinski's uncertain
description of a problematic form across the sea, to attach it to our
clearly defined and well known American species, changing