NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 



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It is said that eating the common ink-cap mushroom, Coprinus 

 atramentarius, sometimes causes reddening of the face. Anyone 

 who can corroborate this statement from his own experience or 



observation should publish the fact. 



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Dr. E. W. Olive, who has been connected with the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden for several years, has retired from active scien- 

 tific work to go into business with his brother at 904 Hume- 

 Mansur Building, Indianapolis, Indiana. 



A circle of fairy-ring mushrooms thirty feet in diameter was 

 seen at Kingston, New York, July 10, in the yard of the famous 

 old Dutch Reform Church. The mushrooms grew about the 

 roots of trees, in the grass, and over graves with stones dating 

 back as far as 1798. 



The use of aged bean seed as a means of controlling bacterial 

 blight of beans is advocated by C. W. Rapp in Science, p. 568, 

 1919. Seed four or five years old does not germinate well, but 

 three-year-old seed yields a high percentage of vigorous plants 

 with very little blight if the soil is free from the disease and no 

 sources of infection are near. 



Referring to the article entitled "Another New Truffle," pub- 

 lished in the May number of Mycologia, Dr. C. L. Shear writes 

 me as follows : "In order to make this story complete, I think 

 it would be desirable to add a note referring to the fact that this 



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