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clanthaceae (Drude), Cyperaceae (Pax), Dioscoreaceae (Pax), Eriocaulaceae 

 (Hieronymus), Flagellariaceae (Eagler), Gnetaceae (Eichler), Gramme* 

 (Hackel), Haamodoracese (Pax), Hydrocharitaceae (Ascherson, Giirke), 

 Iridaceae (Pax), Juncaceae (Buchenau), Juncaginaceae (Buchenau, Hier- 

 onymus), Lemnacese (Eagler), Liliaceae (Eagler), Maraatacese (Petersen), 

 Mayacacese (Engler), Musace.e (Petersen), Naiadaceae (Magnus), Orchida- 

 cese (Pfitzer), Palmse (Drude), Pandanaceae (Graf zu Solms), Philydracea; 

 (Engler), Pontederiaceee (Schonland), Potamogetonaceae (Ascherson), 

 Rapateacese (Engler), Restionaceae (Hieronymus), Sparganiaceae (Engler), 

 Stemonaceae (Engler), Taccaceae (Pax), Triuridace;e (Engler), Typhace;<> 

 (Engler), Velloziaceae (Pax), Zingiberaceae (Petersen). 



minor Notices. 



Mr. A. P. Morgan has distributed the first part of a paper upon 

 North American Gastromycetes, published as a reprint from the Jour. 

 Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist. The present part presents the 5 genera of Phalloideae, 

 accompanied by a colored plate of a new Mutinus. The next part will 

 begin the Lycoperdace*. As an outline of the work the author states 

 that the five orders of Gastromycetes are represented by genera as fol- 

 lows : Phalloideae 5, Lycoperdaceae 10, Sclerodermaceae 7, Hymenogas- 

 traceae 6, Nidulariaceae 5. 



The report of the botanist, Mr. Chas. H. Peck, of the New York 

 State Museum of Natural History,* for the year 1887, was issued a short 

 time ago, something over a year late. Fifty-two new species are de- 

 scribed, all but two being Hymenomycetes. Altogether over a nundrea 

 species are added to the list already reported as belonging to the state 

 flora. A very useful index of genera and species contained in the twen- 

 ty-second to thirty-eighth reports is given. A paper on fungi destruc- 

 tive to wood, by Mr. P. H. Dudley, with four illustrations, is also included. 



No more important botanical contribution from the experiment sta- 

 tions has yet been published than the bulletin on " root rot of cotton or 

 'cotton blight,' ■ by Prof. L. H. Pammel. 5 The author found himself at 

 the outset confronted with a subject on which almost nothing had been 

 written, and regarding which there was great diversity of opinion. . lie 

 has carefully considered the prominent views, but after a full stud} oi 

 the diseased" plants concludes that the disease is due to an injury oi tne 

 roots by a fungus mycelium^ It also affects sweet potatoes. 



^ck, Chas. H.-Report of the botanist. (41 8 tTnnual Rep^Mus. Nat. Hist., for 



1887, pp. 49-122.) 8vo. Troy Press Co., 1888. Agricultural Experi- 



"Pammel, L. H.-Root rot of cotton or ' ' cotton blight. (Texas Agro-ui 

 ment Station, Bulletin No. 4.) 18 pp., 8vo. Houston, 1889. 



