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I was permitted last spring to examine some roots in a case in 
’ which three children had consumed “Wild Parsnip.” ‘There were 
three boys respectively 5,7 and 9 years of age. They were taken 
sick about one hour after eating the “Parsnip.” The specimens 
sent me were excellently developed, and proved to be Cicuta macu- 
lata. Much of wild parsnip referred to commonly in Iowa is this 
species, and not the Pastinaca sativa. 1 might also report that I 
have eaten the wild Pastinaca sativa without injurious effects. 
L. H. PAMMEL. 
North American Fungi, Century XXX.—J. B. Ellis and B. 
M. Everhart. This, the 30th volume of the N. A. F., comes to 
hand in the neat form that has characterized all the preceding “Cen-. 
turies.’ The volume contains a great variety of species ranging 
from :cidium to Venturia,as shown by the alphabetical index. 
By groups, the “ Century” opens with Marasmus ramealis, col- 
lected in West Virginia, by L. W. Nuttall (a strong botanical 
name) and closes with “3,000 Hadotrichum Blasdalei, Sacc. (in 
literis) on Vicia gigantea, Mill Valley, Cal., May, 1893, W. C. 
Blasdale.” Several new species now first see the light as Physalo- 
spora agrifolia, E. and E., on leaves of Quercus agrifolia, Cal» 
W.C. Blasdale; Leptospheria occidentalis, E. and E., on Panicum 
Crus-galli, Kansas, E. Bartholomew. In passing it may be said 
that the two above named persons have furnished a large number 
of interesting specimens. Puecinia Blasdalei, Diet. and Hol. (No. 
2989) is another new species in which the California mycologist is 
honored. It was found by Mr. Blasdale on (?) Adium serratum in 
California in May of the present year. In like manner the Kansas 
collector gets full credit in No. “2990 Puccinia Bartholomt, Diet. 
Hedwigia, 1892, p. 290.’ On Bouteloua oligostachya, Rockport, 
Kas., January, 1893, E. Bartholomew.” The editors of the N. A. 
_F. present a new rust of their own in Puccinia heterantha, E. and 
E., on Cnothera ovata, collected by Blasdale in California, with 
specimens of laboratory cultures of its Acidium, made by the dis~ 
coverer. Also No. 2985 Uvomyces Chlorogali, n. sp. (no authority 
given) on a Chlorogalum, a Blasdale-California find. There is a 
new smut, namely: No. 2983 Urocystis Waldsteinie, Pk. om 
_ Wealdsteinia fragarioides, by .C. L.. Shear,.an active worker in: : 
_ mycology at Alcove, N. Y. There is a good supply of the Ger# 
