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peridia. In Cyathus a middle layer is present which is entirely 

 wanting in Crucibulum. 



Bulletin of the New York State Museum, Nos. 219, 220, ap- 

 peared in January, 1920. It contains a reprint of the report of 

 the state botanist for 1886, which has been so difficult to secure 

 because so few copies were originally printed. A paper on fungi 

 by Dr. House includes descriptions of Mycena filopes (Bull.) 

 Quel, and Mycena Atkinsoni House, and the following new com- 

 binations : Lophiotrcma Peckiana (Sacc.) House, Helmintho- 

 sporium pedunculatum (Peck) House, Gloniopsis Gloniopsis 

 (Gerard) House, and Stcrenm Willeyi (Clinton) Burt. 



The first number of the Bulletin of the Yama Farms My co- 

 logical Club appeared in September, 1920. It contains a descrip- 

 tion of Yama Farms; the origin and purposes of the Club; plans 

 for the future ; a list of books and papers on the larger fungi ; 

 and a list of officers, including John Burroughs, W. A. Murrill, 

 H. D. House, C. F. Millspaugh, G. T. Moore, William Trelease, 

 H. I. Miller, C. H. Kauffman, Howard A. Kelly, Robert T. 

 Morris, and others. The Club intends to make Yama Farms, a 

 vast virgin tract in the southern Catskills, an important myco- 

 logical center, with facilities for collecting and studying the fungi 

 and other interesting forms of plant and animal life. Mrs. O. B. 

 Sarre is permanent secretary-treasurer, and she was assisted dur- 

 ing the season of 1920 by Miss Grace O. Winter, a graduate of 

 Pennsylvania State College. 



Enzyme action in Echinodontium tinctorium, one of the most 

 destructive heart-rotting fungi on conifers in the West, was 

 briefly discussed by Henry Schmitz in the Journal of General 

 Physiology for July 20, 1920. The culture of the fungus used in 

 this study was obtained from a young sporophore by the tissue 

 method. The sporophore was carefully washed with sterile dis- 

 tilled water, dried by means of sterile tissue towelling, and cut 

 open. Small portions of tissue were taken from the interior of 

 the fruiting body and transferred to potato agar slants. After 



