Nos. 455-456.] 



NOTES AND LITERATURE. 



911 



Wooton in Bulletiti No. 51 of the New Mexico Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. 



Nestler, in a pamphlet on " Hautreizende Primeln " (Berlin, Born- 

 traeger, 1904), shows that Primula Sinensis, P. Sieboldii and P. Cor- 

 tusoides have the poisonous properties now well known as possessed 

 by P. ohconica, which he finds not shared by P. officinalis, P. mega- 

 sea^folia, P. flonbunda, P. Auricula, P. capitata, P. fariuosa, P. Ja- 

 ponica, P. hirsnta, P. Clusiana, P. minima or P. rosea. 



The cultivation of mushrooms, mcludmg the "tissue-culture" 

 growth of spawn, is considered by Duggar in Farmers' Bulletin No. 

 204 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



An important paper on sexual reproduction in the Mucorinea, by 

 Blakeslee, forming No. 58 of the "Contributions from the Crypto- 

 gamic Laboratory of Harvard University," is published as Vol. 40, 

 no. 4, of the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences. 



Nos. 15 to 18 of Lloyd's Mycological Notes deal mainly with puff- 

 balls, especially the typical material of European and North Ameri- 

 can herbaria. 



An article on Uredinece, with far-reaching conclusions on sexuality, 

 by Blackmail, is published in the Annals of Botany for July. 



An account of Bacillus violaceus Manihe, a pathogenic species, is 

 given by WooUey in Publication is of the B-ureau of (Government 

 Laboratories of Manila. 



An account of Coniothyrium Diplodiella is given by Montemartini 

 in ritalia Agricola of September 30. 



Conidial fruit of Morchella, similar to if not identical with Costan- 

 tinella cristata. is described by Molliard in the Revue generale de 

 Botanique oi June 15. 



Three fascicles of Lindau's account of Hyphoraycetes (" Raben- 

 horst's Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland etc., Vol. i, Abtheilung 

 8 ") have recently appeared. 



A continuation of Rehm's "Ascomycetes American Borealis" is 

 contained in the July number of Annales Mycologtci. 



Diseases of Ginseng are discussed by Van Hook in Bulletin 219 of 

 the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, issued in 



