July 1907] Notes Jrom Mycological Literature 171 



Fungi ; Stevens — List of New York Fungi ; Kellerman — 

 Notes from Mycological Literature, XXII ; Index to North 

 American Mycology; Editor's Notes. 



Fungi Utahenses. Fascicle Five, ig Jan., 1907. 



This set contains specimens Nos. 101-125. Fourteen are 

 species of Puccinia, one Phragmidium [Ph. horteliae Garrett n. 

 sp. on Hortelia gordonii Hort.], one Pucciniastrum and nine 

 Uromyces. 



Selby, A. D. 



Under the caption "On the Occurrence of Phytophthora in- 

 festans Mont., and Plasmopora cubenses (B. & C.) Humphrey, 

 in Ohio," it is stated (in the Ohio Naturalist of February, 1907), 

 that of the first, specimens were collected in Ohio in the early 

 eighties ; and of the latter, in 1895. Their histories are further 

 outHned and environments discussed. 



Wilson, Guy West. 



An interesting species — "Melanospora parasitica" — collected 

 in a park in New York City, is reported in Torreya for March, 

 1907. It occurred on Isaria farinosa (Dicks) Fries, the conidial 

 stage of Cordyceps mihtaris (L.) Sacc. According to Sac- 

 cardo's Sylloge two ascomycetous fungi occur on this host — but 

 Mr. Wilson finds that they are one and the same species. It was 

 first described as Sphaeronema parasitica by Tulane, but shortly 

 afterward transferred to the genus Melanospora. The species 

 from America was described by Ellis and Everhart as Ceratosto- 

 ma biparasiticum. This and the Sphaeronema first mentioned 

 are synonyms of Melanospora parasitica L. Tul. & C. Tul. 



Sumstine, David R. 



Lentinus pulcherrimus n. sp. is described by Supt. Sumstine 

 as "A new Lentinus from Pennsylvania" — see the March num- 

 ber of Torreya, 1907. The plants resemble Coltricia cinnamonea 

 (Jacq.) Murr. and closely allied to L. villosus, sepiarius, sparsi- 

 barbis and pyramidatus ; to separate it from which a key is 

 given. 



Arthur, J. C. 



The morphological charcters, life cycle, and family of the 

 host are taken into account in establishing "New Genera of 

 Uredinales," as reported in the January number of the Journal 

 OF i\lYCOLOGY, 1907. Dr. Arthur remarks that the Rusts are 

 minute plants and the diagnostic characters must be sought for 

 with corresponding minutiae. The new genera proposed are (i) 

 Pelioma, in which the cycle of development includes pycnia and 



