INDEX TO AMERICAN BOTANICAL LITERATURE 
(1912) 
aim of this Index is to include all current botanical literature written - 
Americans, published in America, or based upon American material ; the word Am 
ica bei cing used in the broadest se 
Reviews, and papers that age exclusively to forestry, agriculture, horticulture, 
manufactured products of vegetable origin, or laboratory methods are not included, and 
no attempt is made to index the literature of bacterio ec An occasional exception is 
made in favor of some paper appearing in an American periodical which is devoted 
wholly to botany. Reprints are not mentioned unless they differ from the original in 
some important particular. If users of the Index will call the veges ane of the editor 
to errors or omissions, their kindness will be appreciated. 
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Botanical Club. , 
Ames, O. Notes on Philippine orchids with descriptions of new species 
—V: The genus Bulbophyllum in the Philippine Islands. Philip. 
Jour. Sci. 7: (Bot.) 125-143. 2S 1912. 
Seventeen new species descri 
Anderson, P. J., & Anderson, H. W. The chestnut blight fungus and 
a related saprophyte. Phytopathology 2: 204-210. O 1912. 
Discusses the Connellsville fungus, for which the name Endothia virginiana is 
proposed, and concludes that we have in our territory (1) Endothia radicalis (Schw.) 
 Fr., (2) the true blight, E. parasitica (Murrill), and (3) E. virginiana 
Andrews, F. M. Some variations in plants. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 
IQII: 279-281.. I9I2. 
Berger, A. Opuntia tomentella A. Berger spec. nov. Monats. Kak- 
teenk. 22: 147, 148. 15 O 1912. 
Banker, H. J. Type studies in the Hydnaceae—IIl. The genus 
Sieccherinum. Mycologia 4: 309-318. 23 N 1912. 
Steccherinum Peckii and S. basi-badium spp. nov. are described. 
Bessey, C. E. Outlines of plant phyla 1-20. Lincoln. 28 S 1912. 
Third Edition. 
Bioletti, F. T., & Cruess, W. V. Enological investigations. Calif. 
Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 230: 23-118. f. 7-8. Au 1912. 
Includes a list of fungi found in must of grapes. 
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