No. 439] NOTES AND LITERATURE. 



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von Schrenk, "The brown rot Disease of the Redwood"; and 

 Hopkins, "Insect Enemies of the Redwood." 



Data on the self-fertility of the grape, comprising studies of the 

 potency of the pollen of self-sterile grapes, the influence on self-fer- 

 tility of girdling or bending the canes, and the pollen of the grape, 

 are published by Beach and Booth in Bulletins No. 223-4 or the 

 New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 



An exhaustive study of the injury of plants by smoke and gases, 

 by IlaselholT and Lindau, has been issued from the press of Born- 

 traeger Brothers, of Leipzig. 



An account of Polyporus fraxinophilus and its effects on the white 

 ash, by von Schrenk, constitutes Bulletin No. 32 of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture. 



Professor Arthur's Washington address as President of the Botan- 

 ical Society of America, on problems in the study of plant rusts, 

 has been distributed by the secretary of the society. 



The relation between frost -injury and parasitic infection in cereals 

 is discussed by Sorauer in Landwirtschaftliche Jahrbiieher, Vol. 

 XXXII, Heft 1, issued in March. 



Among the complicated series and sub series of University Bulle- 

 tins that have appeared in recent years as a means of securing peri- 

 odical mailing privileges, is to be noted an Ohio Myeologieal Bulletin, 

 forming part of the botanical series of the bulletins of the university 



The Journal of Mycology for February, with portrait of Dr. Far- 

 low as frontispiece, contains the following articles: Bubak, "Zwei 

 neue Pilze aus Ohio"; Morgan, " Lephloderma geaster" ; Kellerman, 

 " A new species of Cephalosporin " ; Kellerman, « Uredineous infec- 

 tion experiments in 1902 » ; Stevens, "Notes on Selerospora gramini- 

 cota'-,- Atkinson, "Anew species of Calostoma"; Kellerman, "Ohio 

 Fungi, fascicle VI, [labels and notes] " ; Kellerman, " Index to North 

 American Mycology"; and Kellerman, "Notes from mycological 

 literature, IV." 



