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NOTES FOR STUDENTS 
Taxonomic notes.—Burt? has described a new species of Pistillaria 
(P. Thaxteri) which he records as the smallest known hymenomycete. It was 
collected in Connecticut, and is so minute that the “‘fructifications are not 
visible to the naked eye unless rendered so by special illumination and back- 
ground.” The fructifications were observed scattered on the surface of very 
rotten wood, “merely gregarious, not united into clusters,” and as many as 
II5 were counted on an area 2X0.5 cm. The fungus is remarkable not only 
as the smallest known “toadstool, ” but also for its extreme simplicity of 
structure. 
FERNALD has described a new species of Juncus (J. pervetus) from Cape 
Cod, resembling J. Roemerianus in many particulars. It is stated that this 
new species “is one of the many remarkable species of world-wide affinities 
which are being discovered so frequently on the coastal area of southern New 
England and southeastern British America.” 
Gates‘ has had occasion to investigate Trillium in connection with his 
work in genetics, and has been impressed with the great variability of the 
genus in certain organs. In attempting to delimit the species, he recognizes 
SE species with 9 varieties. T. venosum is described as a new species from 
described in T. luteum, T. lanceolatum, T. grandi- 
florum, and T. ovaium. ee Eee enn of reciaten © he eee se 
brought together, and their number is remarkable. The author suggests that 
the genus Paris has Seon Ginited fom the T. erectum group, and that Medeola 
Sin ction be studies of Senecio, has presented § Losarty 
comprising 16 species, 4 of which are described as new — 
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