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P. nigricans Atkinson and Edgerton n. sp. 



Forming narrow elongated spots on the 

 pods, stems, leaves and bracts, spots oblique 

 on the pods and from 2-5 mm. x 1-2 mm. 

 Spots at first white or with a purple border, 

 later black. Stroma of pseudoparenchymatous 

 cells 6-9 ft, in diameter, two to three cell layers 

 in thickness. Basidia clavate to subeylindrical, 

 20-30 X 6-8 /i, 4r-8-spored. Spores sessile, and 

 basidia continuing to form new spores, at least 

 in artificial culture. Spores pale pink in 

 mass, oblong to subelliptical, hyaline, con- 

 tinuous, smooth, granular, straight or curved, 

 12-20 X 3-3.5 jx, usually becoming once septate 

 on germination. Mycelium from the stroma 

 penetrating the adjacent tissues. Parasitic 

 on pods, stems, leaves and bracts of Vicia 

 sativa. Geo. F. Atkinson, 



0. W. Edgerton 



Botanical Department, 

 Cornell Univebsity 



MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF 

 SAN DIEGO^ 



General Statement. — The La Jolla park 

 transfer matter, the sewer bond election and 

 the building of the new boat have been the 

 events during the past year of foremost mo- 

 ment to the general association. The story 

 of these is so well known that for the purpose 

 of this report they can be quickly despatched. 



The legislation requisite in the opinion of 

 the attornef^ general of the state, to enable the 

 city to transfer its trusteeship of the park at 

 La Jolla to the board of regents of the Uni- 

 versity of California, was secured without a 

 lisp of opposition, so far as we know, early 

 in the last session of the state legislature. 

 Shortly after the enabling act became law the 

 city council passed an ordinance providing 

 for the transfer, under certain conditions, of 

 the title to the park to the regents of the uni- 

 versity, the conditions of the transfer having 

 been first submitted to and approved by the 

 attorney of the board of regents to insure that 

 the trust might be accepted legally and con- 

 sistently with the university's rules and poli- 

 cies. 



^ Extracts from the annual report, presented 

 July 20, 1907, by Wm. E. Hitter, scientific director. 



Meanwhile, by reason of enlarging ideas 

 and plans in the minds of the station's fore- 

 most supporters, Miss Ellen B. Scripps and 

 Mr. E. W. Scripps, the inadequacy in size of 

 the little park for the future developments con- 

 templated, became more and more apparent. 

 The final step in the transaction between the 

 city and the board of regents was conse- 

 quently deferred pending another effort to 

 secure a site of more ample size somewhere 

 in the immediate vicinity of La Jolla, which 

 vicinity all expert judgment appealed to unites 

 in declaring must not be given up under any 

 circumstances. The only piece of ground 

 even approaching the desired size, and at the 

 same time available, was foimd to be a pueblo 

 lot of about 160 acres owned by the city. It 

 is a great satisfaction to be able to report that 

 the efforts to secure this land have advanced 

 to such a point as to justify the expectation 

 that within a month the association will be 

 the possessor of a station site large enough to 

 admit of the developments looked forward to. 



There remains in this connection only the 

 pleasant duty of acknowledging the associa- 

 tion's obligations to the various agencies that 

 have contributed to securing for the associa- 

 tion what it has asked. It is difficult to 

 imagine how any community could take up a 

 purely non-commercial project like this more 

 intelligently and heartily, and promote it 

 more liberally, than the San Diego commu- 

 nity has this biological one. Individual citi- 

 zens, business houses and corporations, city 

 officials, representatives of the city and county 

 in the state legislature — everybody, in short, 

 with whom we have come into relations has 

 treated us even better than we expected to be 

 treated, and that is saying a good deal. 



Planning for the New Laboratory. — The 

 plan suggested at the last annual meeting, 

 held in September, 1906, that the first section 

 of the new laboratory building be hurried to 

 readiness for dedication in early September, 

 1907, came to the end of many another fond 

 hope. Unquestionably real good would have 

 resulted to the station could the scheme have 

 been carried out. But unquestionably also 

 the conditions that have prevented its realiza- 



