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"ber, 1917. Dr. Burt recognizes 19 species, 5 of which are described 

 as new and 2 are newly combined. The 33 pages of text are illus- 

 trated by 19 text figures. New species are: Coniophora inflata, 

 from Parral, Mexico, Matthezvs; C. vaga, from Hudson Falls, 

 New York, Burnham; C. avellanea, from East Galway, New York, 

 Burt; C. Harperi, from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Harper; and 

 C. flava, from Troy and Tyre, Jamaica, Murrill & Harris. New 

 combinations are: Coniophora Kalmiae (Peck) Burt, and C. poly- 

 poroidea (Berk. & Curt.) Burt. The following species are ex- 

 cluded : Coniophora capnoidcs Ellis & Ev., C. sordulenta Cooke 

 .& Massee, and Hypochnus pallescens (Schw.) Burt, comb. nov. 



A paper on some edible and poisonous mushrooms, by Dr. W. 

 B. McDougall, was published in the spring of 191 8 (Bull. 111. 

 State Lab. Nat. Hist. 11: 413-555. 1917). The treatment of 

 the species included is excellent, while the 57 halftone plates leave 

 little to be desired except color. Attention may be called to the 

 following species said to be edible : Stropharia epimyces, Hypho- 

 loma lachrymabundum, Clitocybe odora, Mycena galericulata, 

 Galera tenera, Claudopus nidulans, and Boletinus porosiis. The 

 peculiar odor of Claudopus nidulans, so characteristic and yet so 

 difficult to describe, is said to resemble that of the freshly opened 

 viscera of swine. The parasitic mold so common on Lentinus 

 tigriniis is said to be due to a species of Sporotrichum, a discovery 

 credited to Miss Esther Young. 



Dr. E. W. Olive, of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, spent some 

 time during the past summer assisting government and state 

 agents in locating plant diseases and instructing farmers how to 

 combat them. His experiences in parts of New York and Vir- 

 ginia were given in a public lecture at the New York Botanical 

 Garden on October 26, with lantern slides illustrating some of 

 the most important and recently introduced diseases, among them 

 the nematode disease of wheat noted in the November number of 

 Mycologia and the potato wart disease referred to below. 



The European potato wart disease has been discovered in ten 

 mining villages near Hazelton, Pennsylvania, by Professor J. G. 

 Sanders, economic zoologist of that state. Every effort of the 



