44 Journal of Mycology [Vol. 14 



Stockdale, F. A. 



This Report of Mr. Stockdale, Mycologist attached to the 

 Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, printed 

 in the Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Botanical Depart- 

 ment, Trinidad, October 1907, deals with three diseases of the 

 Cocoa-nut Palm, called Root-disease, Leaf-disease, and the Bud- 

 rot. The first named is the most serious, caused apparently by a 

 Botrydiplodia. The Leaf-disease is caused by a Pestalpzzia, pos- 

 sibly P. palmarum Cke. — yellowish spots on the leaflets especially 

 near the tips. 



Peck, Charles Horton. 



In the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, July 1907, Dr. 

 Peck describes "New Species of Fungi" — Collybia subsulphu- 

 rea, Omphalia vestita, Omphalia curvipes, Lactarius rufulus, Lac- 

 tarius xanthog'alactus, Entoloma modestum, Ecclia cinericola 

 Naucoria tabacine bicolor var. nov., Agaricus pattersonae, Psathy- 

 rella caespitosa, Hydnum kauffmani, Macrophoma tiliacea, and 

 Cucurbitaria erratica. 



Bulletin de la Societe Royale de Botanique de Belgique, Tome 

 43, 1906. 



The articles pertaining to mycology are the following: 

 Apergu historique sur les especes du g. Scleroderma (Pers. p. p.) 

 emend Fries de la Flore Beige, et Considerationes sur la determin- 

 ation de ces Species, par Ch. Van Bambeke ; Nouvelles Stations 

 de Peronosporees en 1905. par I'abbe Hyag. Vanderyst ; Lichens 

 rares ou nouveaus pour la Belgique, par Bouly de Lesdain ; 

 Quelques remarques sur Polyporus rostkowii Fr., par Ch. Van. 

 Bambeke ; Liste de Lichens recueillis a Spa. 



Comptes Rendus des Seances des Sciences, Tome 141, July- 

 Dec, 1905. 



Pertaining to mycology are the following articles: Un 

 nouvel ennemi des Cafeires on Nouvelle-Caltdonie [Pellicularia 

 koleroga Cooke], I. Galland ; Sur la Structure et I'Evolution du 

 Rhacodium ceblare, F. Gueguen ; Nouvelles recherches sur I'ap- 

 pareil reproducteur des Mucorinees, J. Dauphin ; Sterigmatocystis 

 nigra et acide oxalique, P. G. Carpentier. 



Reed, Howard S. 



In Science for Oct. 4. 1907, under the head of "The para- 

 sitism of Neocosmora," a reply is made to previous criticism by 

 Dr. Erwin F. Smith in the same Journal. 



