EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. III. ISSUED JUNE, 1892. No. 11. 



EDITORIAL XOTES. 



Tlie Division of Vegetable Patliolo<;y of this Departnient is preparing 

 an Index to Wycological Literature, wliicb promises to be of great value 

 to all students of fungi. This index is being published in installments 

 in the Journal of Mycology. It has hitherto been confined to American 

 literature, but in volume Vii, No. li, of the Journal, recently issued, its 

 scope has been widened to include foreign literature. The arrangement of 

 the entries is also changed. The articles are no longer placed in strictly 

 alphabetical order, but are grouped under subjects, which are classified 

 as follows : 



A. — Works of a general nature. 

 B. — Diseases of non-parasitic or nncertain origin. 

 C. — Diseases due to fungi, bacteria, and Myxoniycetcs. 

 I. — Relations of host and parasite. 

 II. — Diseases of tield and garden crops. 

 III. — Diseases of fruits. 

 IV. — Diseases of forest and shade trees. 

 V. — Diseases of ornamental phiiits. 

 D. — Remedies, jtreventives, a]ii>]ianees, etc. 

 E. — Pliysiology, biology, and geograidiical distribution. 

 F. — Morphology and classitieation of fungi. 

 I. — General works. 

 II. — Chytridiaceai. 

 III. — Oomycetes. 

 IV. — Zygomycetes. 

 V. — liasidiomycetes. 

 VI. — Uredineae. 

 VII. — Ustilaginese. 

 VIII. — Ascomycetes. 



(1) Gynmoasci. 



(2) PerisporiaceiB. 



(3) Sphairiaceae. 



(4) Disconiycetes. 



IX. — Imperfect and unclassified forms. 



(1) Hyphomycetes and Stilbete. 



(2) Sphieropsideje aud MelauconesB. 



(3) Miscellaneous. 



