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  for 
  such 
  purposes. 
  The 
  issuing 
  of 
  technical 
  bulletins 
  by 
  the 
  

   stations 
  was 
  discouraged 
  as 
  there 
  are 
  well 
  established 
  aven- 
  

   ues 
  for 
  the 
  publication 
  of 
  scientific 
  matter 
  in 
  a 
  way 
  that 
  all 
  

  

  libraries, 
  societies 
  and 
  interested 
  individuals 
  can 
  find 
  ready 
  

   access 
  to 
  it. 
  

  

  As 
  officers 
  for 
  the 
  coming 
  year 
  the 
  following 
  were 
  elected 
  : 
  

  

  For 
  chairman, 
  Byron 
  D. 
  Halsted 
  ; 
  for 
  secretary, 
  Dr. 
  Roland 
  

   Ihaxter. 
  

  

  BRIEFER 
  ARTICLES. 
  

  

  I 
  

  

  Jfote 
  on 
  the 
  nomenclature 
  of 
  Uuciuala 
  spiralis 
  B. 
  & 
  C 
  — 
  Burrill 
  

   andEarle, 
  in 
  their 
  Parasitic 
  Fuugi 
  of 
  Illinois, 
  Part 
  II, 
  p. 
  406, 
  have 
  de- 
  

   scribed 
  this 
  species 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  Uncinula 
  ampelopsidis 
  Pk., 
  giving 
  U- 
  

   Americana 
  Pk. 
  (1872), 
  U. 
  spiralis 
  B. 
  & 
  G. 
  (1876), 
  and 
  U. 
  suh/asca 
  B. 
  & 
  C. 
  

   (1876) 
  as 
  synonyms 
  in 
  the 
  order 
  named. 
  These 
  authors 
  evidently 
  over- 
  

   J^oked 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  as 
  long 
  ago 
  as 
  1857 
  Berkeley, 
  in 
  his 
  Introduction 
  to 
  

   Cryptogam 
  ic 
  Botany 
  (p. 
  278, 
  fig. 
  64), 
  figured 
  two 
  appendages 
  and 
  a 
  six 
  

   spored 
  ascus 
  of 
  what 
  is 
  undoubtedly 
  this 
  fungus, 
  giving 
  below 
  the 
  figure 
  

   the 
  name 
  Uncinula 
  spiralis 
  Berkeley 
  & 
  Curtiss. 
  There 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  no 
  

   good 
  reason 
  why 
  we 
  should 
  not 
  accept 
  this 
  name 
  which 
  is 
  adopted 
  by 
  

   arlow 
  & 
  Seymour 
  in 
  their 
  Provisional 
  Host 
  Index. 
  As 
  the 
  scope 
  of 
  the 
  

   a 
  ter 
  work 
  forbids 
  explanations 
  we 
  thought 
  the 
  present 
  one 
  might 
  not 
  

   out 
  of 
  place. 
  Accepting 
  Berkeley 
  and 
  Curtiss' 
  name, 
  we 
  have 
  for 
  the 
  

   species, 
  then, 
  the 
  following 
  synonymy 
  : 
  

  

  Uncinula 
  spiralis 
  B. 
  & 
  C, 
  Introduction 
  to 
  Cryptogamic 
  Botany, 
  p. 
  

   ^8, 
  fig. 
  64, 
  1857. 
  

  

  U. 
  ampelopsidis 
  Pk., 
  Trans. 
  Albany 
  Inst., 
  Vol. 
  VII, 
  p. 
  216, 
  1872. 
  

  

  t/. 
  Americana 
  Howe, 
  Erysiphei 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  Journal 
  of 
  

   ^tany, 
  1872. 
  

  

  U. 
  snbfusca 
  B. 
  & 
  C, 
  Grev. 
  IV. 
  p. 
  160, 
  1876.— 
  B. 
  T. 
  Galloway, 
  Washing- 
  

   ton, 
  V.C. 
  f 
  , 
  

  

  OPEN 
  LETTERS. 
  

  

  On 
  priority 
  of 
  place 
  in 
  biological 
  nomenclature. 
  

  

  mv 
  rT.^^ 
  Puhjication 
  of 
  my 
  note 
  in 
  the 
  October 
  Journal 
  of 
  Botany 
  giving 
  

   thenlf?"^ 
  ^^'^ 
  t*l^i°g 
  "P 
  the 
  generic 
  name 
  Tissa 
  instead 
  of 
  Biuia 
  for 
  

   the 
  ?rfr^ 
  '•eferred 
  by 
  recent 
  authors 
  to 
  Lepigonum 
  or 
  Spergularta, 
  and 
  

   this 
  n.^T"^^ 
  thereon 
  by 
  the 
  learned 
  editor, 
  have 
  put 
  my 
  position 
  on 
  

   I 
  dir?,„ 
  '*'r 
  squarely 
  on 
  record. 
  I 
  was 
  sorry 
  to 
  have 
  to 
  take 
  the 
  means 
  

   thatVl'"''^^'" 
  *^ 
  ^"^»ce 
  him 
  to 
  print 
  my 
  communication, 
  but 
  I 
  desired 
  

   well 
  i^T 
  ^W^ 
  «^ould 
  be 
  given 
  Jlace 
  in 
  an 
  English 
  botanical 
  journal 
  aa 
  

   as 
  m 
  those 
  of 
  America. 
  Mr. 
  Britten, 
  regarding 
  my 
  reasons 
  aa 
  trivial, 
  

  

  