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GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY.! 
Tue FUNGI WHICH PRODUCE MILDEW on Corron Goops.—lIna 
recent English work upon “ Sizing and Mildew in Cotton Goods,” 
by G. E. Davis, Charles Dreyfus and Philip Holland, the follow- 
ing fungi are enumerated as found growing on cotton goods and 
in analogous situations, viz: Stachybotrys lobulata, Stachybotrys 
atra, Penicillium sitophilum, Myxotrichum deflexum, Polyactis fas- 
cicularis, Sporocybe alternata, Rhopalomyces pallidus, Papulaspora 
sepedonioides, Acremonium alternatum, Ascophora mucedo, Penicil-— 
lium chartarum, Penicillium crustaceum, Aspergillus glaucus, As- 
pergillus roseus, Periconia glaucocephala, Cladosporium herbarum, 
Chetomium chartarum, Ascotricha chartarum, Orbicula cyclospora, 
Ailographum maculare, Diplodia cowdellii, Spheropsis sp., Asco- 
bolus saccharinus, Typhula gyrans, Arcyria ochroleuca, Perisporium 
vulgare. Of these the authors say, “the above have all been 
found on decaying vegetable fibers, the most common being 
Cladosporium herbarum, Penicillium crustaceum, and Sporocybe, 
with two species of Aspergillus. The fungus giving a reddish 
hue to stale rice paste is known as Papulaspora sepedonioides, 
whilst Diplodia cowdellii is the cause of black spots on damp cot- 
We have noticed others in our experiments, notably Macro- 
sportum cheivanthi, Rhinotrichum lanosum, Myxotrichum char- 
tarum, Mucor phycomyces and Mucor mucedo, but we hesitate in 
placing these species as being nominally found in cotton goods.” 
Further on the authors say, “ The colored stain which first 
attracts the eye when examining a specimen of mildewed cloth, is 
due possibly to the mycelium, or it may arise from the fructifica- 
tion of a fungus; or, again, organic colors produced by the de- 
composition of a nitrogenous substance, or carbo-hydrate in the 
matrix may be the cause of it. When nitrogenous substances 
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