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Harris, Carolyn W. 



"A List of Foliaceous and Fruticous Lichens collected at 

 Chilsom Lake, Essex County, New York, altitude 12,000 feet" 

 — 150 si>ecies, is given in the May Bryologist, 1906. 



Guttenberg, Hermann Ritter von. 



The anatomy of galls caused by fungi has not generally 

 been fully investigated in connection with the gall-producing 

 agent, or as the author says, "Stehen eingehendere Untersu- 

 chungen ueber die von Pilzen on hoeheren Pflanzen hevorge- 

 rufenen Missmildungen, ueber die Pilzgallen oder Mycocecidien, 

 derzeit noch aus." In this brochure of 70 pages and four double- 

 page lithographic plates entitled ''Beitraege zur Physiologischen 

 Anatomic der Pilzgallen," he has given an exhaustive account of 

 Albugo Candida on Capsella bursa-pastoris, Exoascus amentorum 

 on Alnus incana, Ustilago maydis on Zea Mays, Puccinia adoxae 

 on Adoxa moschatellina. and Exobasdium rhododendri on Rho- 

 dodendron ferrugineum and Rh. hirsutum. 



Harshberger, John W. 



It is not usual to regard Physarum cinereum as "A Grass- 

 Killing Slime iMould," but under this caption the author reports 

 in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, held 

 at Philadelphia, Vol. XLV, No. 184, that the grass had been 

 destroyed in spots by this organism, "the blades of grass were 

 killed by the Plasmodium of this myxomycete spreading across 

 the lawn." "It left is saprophytic habit, assuming a grass-killing 

 one." 



Kauffman, C. H. 



A revision, with many additions, of the Key printed in the 

 June (1905) Torrey Bulletin is given in the January Number of 

 the Journal of Mycology, 1907, with 8 pages of plates, under 

 the title of "The Genus Cortinarius with key to the species." Mr. 

 Kauffman offers pertinent suggestions in regard to studying these 

 plants, stating inter alia that young unexpanded plants must be 

 examined as well as mature ones. Next, a careful description 

 must be made with special reference to the difference in the 

 color of the gills in the young and old plants, etc. Amateurs 

 and beginners have here just such suggestions as they need in 

 undertaking the study of the many species of the genus. The 

 admiral)le key deals with about seven dozen species. 



Fungi Columbiani, Century XXIV. 



This was issued March 15, 1907, Elam Bartholomew, Stock- 

 ton, Kansas. Nearly two dozen Puccinia packets are included, 

 about one dozen Uromycetes, many Cercosporas, a few Aecidia, 

 and one or two species each of many other genera. 



