■I HE AMERICAN XATi-RAIJS F. [\( XXX\' 1 1 1. 



An annotated ediiion of the Codex of Clusius, the original of which 

 appeared three centuries ago, has recently been issued by Istvanffi, 

 of Budapest, and is illustrated by colored reproductions of the origi- 

 nal water color sketches of fungi, by Clusius. 



A key to the species of Rhizopus, with description of a new 

 parhogenic species, R. equinns, is published by Costantin and Lucet 

 in tlie July number of the Bulletin triwcsiriel ,k hi Societe myco- 

 logiqnc de France. 



A note on Costa Rican edible fungi is contained in No. 24 of the 

 Bolelin el Institufo Eisieo -ecnrrafieo de Cosia Rica. 



Inoculation experiments with graminicolous species of Claviceps 

 ,11 c described by Stager in the Botanischc Zeitung. Abteilung i , of 



Swine decay of stored apples is shown by Kustace, in }3unctin No. 

 -"o, and the popular edition of the same, of the New^ York Agricul- 

 tMi:il Kx peri mental Station, to be caused in part by a species of 

 1 1\ pocliiius following Fusicladiuni. and in part to be of an obscure 

 <«iii;in, wulioul any parasitic cause so far as determined. 



Mc\\ Sclerodiiia of tobacco, from tlie Amsterdam Academy. 



An economic account of the wilt disease of tobacco, caused by a 

 specirs of I 'lisarium, forms the subject of part 1 of Bulletin No. 51, of 

 ilic linrc.ui of IMant Industry of the United States Department of 

 Auriculmrc. l.y McKciincy. 



An nnportant paiu-i on thr l>acteria of tilled soil, by Hiltner and 



