Notes and Brief Articles 



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Thomas F. Hunt, Dean of the College of Agriculture of the 

 University of California, has accepted appointment as permanent 

 delegate representing the United States at the International In- 

 stitute of Agriculture, Rome, Italy. His wide knowledge of agri- 

 cultural conditions in America, coupled with his extensive in- 

 vestigations in Europe, make him an exceptionally well-quali- 

 fied man for this position, which has been vacant since the death 

 of David Lubin. 



Mr. Ramsbottom, general secretary of the British Mycological 

 Society, with headquarters at the British Museum, has under- 

 taken to compile a list of all the new genera of fungi published 

 since the appearance of Vol. XXII of Saccardo's " Sylloge," the 

 original diagnoses of which will appear in annual instalments in 

 the Society's publications. He will welcome separates including 

 descriptions of new genera or any other assistance that will make 

 his work easier or more complete. 



Dr. L. O. Overholts, of State College, Pennsylvania, arrived at 

 the Garden, August 28, with several boxes of specimens to be 

 studied and compared in the mycological herbarium. Among 

 them were some specimens which we were very glad to see, in- 

 cluding types of certain species recently described by Mr. C. G. 

 Lloyd. Of these, Polyporus induratus C. G. Lloyd, collected at 

 Urbana, Illinois, in 1918 by William McDougal, proves to be a 

 rather thick form of Fomes fraxinens, which is more like the 

 typical European specimens than most of those I have seen from 

 America. 



Grifola flavovirens was found in quantity at Yama Farms, on 

 September 6, by several members of the Mycological Club who 

 were out collecting fungi. It appeared in several fine clusters in 

 a low, damp spot in oak-chestnut woods between the Inn and 

 Jenny Brook. I have never before seen so much of this rare 

 species in one place. 



