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by Fischer, published as no. 4-6 of the 63d volume of the Botanische 
Zeitung, I Abtheilung. 
No. 8 (Mycological series no. 3) of the Bulletin of the Lloyd 
Library, dated April, 1905, contains an account by C. G. Lloyd of 
the Lycoperdacez of Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands. 
An important paper connecting many Fungi Imperfecti with 
Ascomycetous forms has been published by Klebahn in vol. 41, heft 
4, of the Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Botanik. 
“Asparagus and Asparagus Rust in California" is the title of a 
well illustrated paper by Smith, published as Buletin no. 165 of the 
Agricultural Experiment Station of that State. 
A paper on the grain-rust epidemic of 1904, by Carleton, forms 
farmers’ Bulletin no. 219 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
Atkinson and Shore have published an illustrated paper on mush- 
room growing for amateurs as Bulletin no. 227 of the Cornell Uni- 
versity Agricultural Experiment Station. 
A paper on apple scab and cedar rust, by Emerson, forms Bulletin 
no. 88 of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Nebraska. 
Orchard diseases are discussed by Wilcox in Bulletin no. 132 of 
the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station. 
. A popular summer key to our trees, by Julia Ellen Rogers, is pub- 
lished in Country Life in America for July. 
Volume 3 of Marshall Ward's 7»ees deals with flowers and inflor- 
escences, descriptively treated with reference to British forms. 
Alwood, Davidson, and Moncure describe the composition of cider 
as determined by dominant fermentation with pure yeasts, in Bule- 
tin no. 150 of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station. 
An agricultural-geographical study of rubber plants, with map, 
by Reintgen, forms no. 2-3 of the current volume of Beihefte sum 
7; OIRNE 
An account of native and introduced saltbushes, by Elias Nelson, 
forms Bulletin no. 63 of the Wyoming Experiment Station. 
The Mexican “ guayule ” (Parthenium argentatum) used as a source 
of caoutchouc, is the subject of an article by Endlich in Der Tropen- 
Pflanzer for May. 
A well illustrated article by Fullerton, on “ Roots We a is con- 
tained in Country Life in America for July. 
