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States National Herbarium, Mr. Maxon publishes a study of certain 

 Mexican and Guatemalan species of Polypodium. 



A monograph of the Belgian species of Cladonia, by Agriet, con- 

 stitutes the third fascicle of Volume 40 of the Bulletin de la Societt 

 Royale de Botanique de Belgique, for the year 1901, issued in June 



The bitter rot of Apples forms the subject of a paper by von 

 Schrenk and Spaulding, published as Bulletin 44 of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture. The fungus com- 

 monly known as Gloeosporium fructigenutn, but in one of its forms 

 first named Septoria rufo-maculans by Berkeley,' is here named Gio- 

 merella rufomaculans, the genus standing practically for Gnomoniop- 

 sis of Stoneman, but not of Berlese. 



Diseases of the apple, pear, and quince are discussed in Bulletin 

 183 of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. 



The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society for April, as is usual 

 with that journal, contains a good many botanically interesting mat- 

 ters, among others a continuation of Cooke's " Fungoid pests of the 

 garden." 



Two new diseases of the raspberry, cane blight and yellows, are 

 discussed in Popular Bulletin no. 226 of the New York Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, issued last December but dated December 1903. 



Like preceding numbers, Professor Peck's Report of the State 

 Botanist for 1902, published as Bulletin 286 of the University of the 

 State of New York and issued in May. contains descriptions and fig- 

 ures of a considerable number of pileate fungi. 



A helpful feature of the Ohio Mycological Bulletin consists in the 

 printing of accent marks over generic and specific names, — but 

 unfortunately the popular rather than the correct accentuation is 

 occasionally given. 



A phalloid (probably Ithyphallus cele'uens) is described by Fischer 

 in Mededeeliugeu ran 'het /', ,efstatum Oost-Ja:a. 111. No.^ 46, as liv- 



the sugar cane, in Java. 



Monascus purpureas and its systematic position, are considered, by 

 Ikeno, in the Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft of June 

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