Lloyd Mycological Writings V4.pdf - MykoWeb

found a novelty that was not appreciated at the time. He turned
it over to Banker, and he discovered it to be a new species of "Steccherinum"
(sic), which was one of Banker's juggles for the dimidiate
section of Hydnum. Banker has probably since rejuggled it, for he
changes his names every time he writes a paper, and his juggles and
rejuggles are not worth bothering over. What most amused me,
Fig. 769.
Radulum Ballouii.
however, is that the plant never was a Hydnum, but a Radulum in
the Friesian classification, a genus the existence of which was apparently
unknown to Banker at the time he discovered this "new
species."* Saccardo compiled it as Hydnum Ballouii, but, of course,
Saccardo cannot be expected to correctly translate Banker's linguistic
inventions when Banker himself did not know the genus to which
his plant belonged.
* "Banker abolished the genus Radulum. Bulletin Torrey Botanical Club, Vol. 29, 1902." Extract
from a letter from Ballou.
Yes. we have heard of these fellows before, who abolished established language, with a breath.
hke one flecks off a speck of dust. Otto Kuntze and Professor McGinty are two others of the same
The genus Radulum was established a hundred years before Banker was born, has been in use
continuously ever since proposed, and will be in existence a hundred years after the name-jugglers
have been forgotten. Banker will find it about as easy to "abolish" the genus Radulum as he would
to "abolish" the city of New York.
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