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Further infection experiments with Erysiphe graminis, confirming 

 the current conclusions as to its physiological differentiation on differ- 

 ent hosts, are recorded by Reed in a paper separately printed from 

 vol. 15, part 1, of the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of 

 Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 



Salmon figures the Venturias and associated Fusicladiums of apple 

 and pear in The Gardeners' Chronicle of July 14. 



Gloeosporium psidii is shown by Sheldon, in Bulletin 104 of the West 

 Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station, to develop an 

 ascigerous stage pertaining to the genus Glomerella,— on the para- 

 physes of which he has a note in Science of June 1. 



An illustrated paper on the fungi of scale insects is published by 

 Parkin in vol. 3, part 1, of the Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Peradeniya. 



An account of fungi and plant diseases, by Clinton, forms part 5 

 of the Report of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station for 

 1905. 



A large number of foliar acarodomatia are described by de Wilde- 

 man in vol. 30, no. 2, of the Annates de la Societe Scientifique de Brux- 

 elles. 



An extensive study of palm germination is published by Gatin in 

 the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique of June. 



A further account of acarodomatia is given by Borzi in vol. 4, no. 1, 

 of Contribuzioni alle Biologia Vegetale, published from the Botanical 

 Institute of Palermo. 



Three ferns and 199 flowering plants which grow on trees (without 

 being epiphytes) in parts of Italy are enumerated by Ugolini in the 

 Commentari delV Ateneo di Brescia for 1905. 



The sand dunes of Guardamar, and the planting effected on them, 

 form the subject of an illustrated paper by Mira in vol. 4, no. 1-2, 

 of the Memorias de la R. Sociedad Espafwla de Historia Natural. 



Bruck gives an account of wind injury to foliage in Heft 1 of vol. 

 20, part 2, of the Beihcfte zum hotanisehen Centralblatt. 



The biology of a large number of Dicotyledons, from germination 

 to flowering, is traced and illustrated by Sylven in the recently issued 

 vol. 40, no. 2, of the K. Sveruka Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar. 



