the Polish
description the while to make it fit, is hard to understand; especially
in view of the fact, by Wingate admitted, that Rex had in his letters to
Morgan already named the American type _Enteridium umbrinum_. The two
students differed as to generic reference, and later on Morgan published
_Reticularia splendens_ Morg.; rather than _R. umbrina_ (Rex) Morg.
because he was using _R. umbrina_ Fr. for what is generally known as _R.
lycoperdon_ (_Bull._)

It would then appear that when Wingate sought to impose the
Rostafinskian specific name upon our American form by changing (fixing!)
Rostafinski's generic reference, and by re-writing the specific
description from the pages of the _Monograph_ in order to claim
identity, he was entirely without justification, especially since he
knew the species appropriately named by his colleague, Dr. Rex, and had
the name as used in the Rex and Morgan correspondence.

In brief; Mr. Wingate proceeded to re-describe Rostafinski's rozean
specimen and referred a long-known American form (very different) to the
European specimen as type. Wingate's description is right; he had the
American material before him; but his cited type is worthless, an
entirely different thing.

Does the reader care to see what the European _type_ of our common form,
Wingate _teste_, really looks like, let him consult the _Jour. of
Botany_, Vol. XXIX., p. 263, 1891.

2. ENTERIDIUM OLIVACEUM _Ehr._

1818. _Enteridium olivaceum_ Ehr.

Aethalium depressed flat, oval or elongate, .3 cm. in extent, .6 mm.
thick when fresh, glossy, smooth, greenish-olivaceous-brown; within a
spongy net-work representing sporangial walls which are thin, pale
olivaceous, perforate by circular openings, meshes surrounded by wide
plates; spores in clusters, six or more together, ovoid, distinctly
warted at the wider end, pale olivaceous, 9-11 mu.

This, the type of the genus, is a very distinct species of this by its
structure readily distinguished form. Fries thought the species might
represent a less perfectly-developed reticularia, and therefore wrote
_Reticularia olivacea_ noting, however, the clustered spores and the
lack of hypothallus.

Common, as would appear, in Europe and in S. America; rare with us.
Reported from N. Hampshire and we have one specimen from Colorado.

3. ENTERIDIUM MINUTUM _Sturg._

1917. _Enteridium minutum_ Sturg., _Mycologia_, IX, p. 328.

Aethalia rounded or elongate, pulvinate, pale