Sept. 1907] Notes Jrom Mycological Literature 229 



with the classification — the author recognizing the usual three 

 classes — the Phycomycetes including the subclasses Omycetes 

 and Zygomycetes ; the two classes constituting the Eu-mycetes ; 

 Ascomycetes composed of Hemiascineae, and Euasceae ; and 

 Basidiomycetes composed of the three sub-classes ; Hemibasideae, 

 Protobasidiomycetes, and Autobasidiomycetes. Five pages are 

 devoted to the Lichens and one page to Bibliography. Numerous 

 text figures are used. 



Rolfs, F. M. 



Experiments in reciprocal inoculation wath pure cultures 

 shows that Cytospora rubescens Xitschke is the pycnidial stage 

 of Valsa leucostoma — a fungus well known in Europe, Aus- 

 tralia and the United States. "Professor F. C. Stewart of the 

 New York Agricultural Experiment Station, was the first Amer- 

 ican to call attention to the parasitic nature of the fungus.'* At 

 the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station it is an active par- 

 asite attacking the twigs, limbs and trunk of the peach, plum, 

 apricot and cherrytrees. This is reported under the head of 

 "Dieback of the Peach Trees" in Science of July 19, 1907. 



Lauterbom, Robert. 



In Heft 5, Band XXV, 2.(> June 1907, an account is given 

 of "Eine neue Gattung der Schwefelbacterien (Thioploca schrnid- 

 lei nov. gen. nov. spec.)" — belonging to the family Beggiotoa- 

 ceae, occurring in Untersees des Bodensees in der Gegend von 

 Ermatingen, in 15-20 m. Tiefe das Innere des kalkreichen 

 Grundschlicks durchziehend. 



Zeitschrift fuer Pflanzenkrankheiten, XIV. Band, 1904. 



The principal mycological articles of this volume are as fol- 

 lows : Ueber die Botrytis-Krankheit der Tulpen, H. Klebahn ; 

 Ueber Trichothecium roseum Link, als Ursache der Bitterfaeule 

 von Fruechten, K. S. Iwanoff; Der Rost des Getreides in 

 Schlesien im Sommer 1903, W. Remer; Beitraege zur Kenntnis 

 des Pilzes in den Wurzelanschwellungen von Alnus incana, C. 

 G. Bjoerkenheim; Die Peronospora-recte Pseudoperonospora 

 Krankheit der Melonen und Gurken in Ungarn, Prof. Linhart; 

 Eine wichtige Gloeosporium-Krankheit der Linden, R_. Lambert; 

 Ueber den klimatisch-biologischen Zusamenhang einer Reihe 

 Getreidekrankheiten waehrencl der letzen Jahre, J. R. Jungner. 



Zeitschrift fuer Pflanzenkrankheiten, XV. Band, 1905. 



We have to record the following titles : Pilzkrankheiten in 

 Indien im Jahre 1903. E. J. Butler; Die schaedlichsten Insecten 

 und Pflanzenkrankheiten w^elche an den Kultuzpflanzen in Bul- 

 garien waehrend des Jahres 1903 geschadigt haben ; Kulturver- 

 suche mit Rostpilzen. "XII Bericht, 1903 und 1904, H. Klebahn; 



