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Excellent young specimens of Armillaria nobilis were recently 

 sent to the Garden herbarium in a collection of 13 species of Colo- 

 rado fungi secured by Dr. Joseph Cuneo at 8,500 feet elevation 

 near Denver, Colorado. 



Specimens of Daedalea quercina were collected in September 

 at East Nottingham, Pennsylvania, by Professor A. H. Graves 

 on Japanese chestnut and on butternut. The usual hosts for this 

 fungus are oak and chestnut, butternut being very unusual. 



A splendid sugar maple standing near the Bedford Park en- 

 trance to the Garden had one of its large branches torn away 

 from the trunk several years ago by a storm, leaving an ugly 

 wound. The entire side of the trunk below the wound is now 

 covered with fruit-bodies of Cerrena unicolor, while Elfvingia 

 megaloma appeared the past summer at the base of the tree. 



Mrs. Wallis Craig Smith sent to the Garden herbarium late in 

 September, from Upper Jay, New York, several interesting speci- 

 mens of fleshy fungi, among them Melanoleuca eqiiestris, Mela- 

 noleuca Russula, Phylloporus rhodoxanthus, and several speci- 

 mens of a species of Cortinarius with the lamellae extremely 

 abnormal, resembling the hymenium of a Merulius and suggest- 

 ing Tremella mycetophila. 



A new journal, the Annals of the Phy to pathological Society of 

 Japan, has been launched under the managership of N. Suemastu, 

 T. Hemmi, and U. Bokura. The first number contains a brief 

 historical sketch of the development of plant pathology in Japan ; 

 several papers on plant diseases ; and thirty pages of reviews of 

 pathological literature and notes. We welcome this new journal 

 and wish for it great prosperity. 



A very large collection of fungi was brought in on September 

 24 from Scarsdale, New York, by Mrs. L Martin and Mrs. L. M. 

 Keeler. It contained, in addition to many other interesting spe- 

 cies, a specimen of Grifola Sumstinei. On September 25, Mrs. 

 Keeler collected in the same locahty a cluster of Clitocybe sub- 



