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Orton, V/. A. 



In Farmers' Bulletin 302, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Mr. Orton gives a brief acount of the disease of Sea Island Cot- 

 ton, namely. Sore-shin and Damping-off (due to Rhizoctonia) ; 

 Bacterial Blight (Bacterium malvacearum Erw. Sm.) ; and Wilt 

 ( Neocosmospora vasinfecta (Atks.) Erw. Sm.). 



Cobb, N. A. • 



The "Third Report on Gumming of the Sugar-Cane" forms 

 Bulletin No. 3, Division of Pathology and Physiology, Experi- 

 ment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. This 

 disease was first discovered in Australia ; it is caused by Bacterium 

 vascularum (Cobb) Grieg-Smith. 



Butler, E. J. 



idr. Butler, the Imperial Mycologist, Department of Agri- 

 culture in India, gives an account of "Some Diseases of Cereals 

 caused by Sclerospora graminicola." being Vol. II, No. i. Mem- 

 oirs. Botanical Series. March, 1907. The grasses involved are 

 Pennisetum typhoideum, Andropogon sorghum. Setaria italica. 

 and Euchlaena (Rheana) luxurians. 



Fetch, T. 



There is a brief but excellent summary by Hasselbring in the 

 September Botanical Gazette, 1907, of "Fungi in termite nests," 

 as given by the above author in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gar. Paradeniya. 

 "The only form on the normal comb is a hyphomycete which was 

 not determined, but from the descriptions seems to be like Ster- 

 igmatocystis. This fungus seems to be endemic in the nests, not 

 found outside them. When the combs grow old they give rise 

 to two forms of agarics, which, however, the author regards as 

 one species (Volvaria eurhiza). A third form in the fresh ter- 

 mite comb is Xylaria nigripes. . . . All the forms described 

 are eaten by the termites. When an inhabited comb is enclosed 

 under a bell-jar the termites eat off the heads of the hyphomycete 

 and also the Xylaria as it develops. They also eat the stalks of 

 the agarics following them to the surface of the ground. It is 

 probable, therefore, that the fungi of the termite nests form food 

 for the inhabitants, as do the "fungus gardens" for the leaf-cutting 

 ants." 



Hedwigia, Band XLVI, Heft 3-4, 15 Feb., 1907. 



In this No. only two articles are mycological. namely, Edv. A. 

 Waino, Lichenes novi rariosque ; Fr. Bubak und J. E. Kabat, 

 Mykologische Beitrage (Anfang). 



