NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 



[Unsigned notes are by the editor] 



Ozving to the increased cost of publication, the price of Myco- 

 LOGiA will be advanced to four dollars ($4.00) at the beginning of 

 ip20. This price zvill also apply to back volumes; which can still 

 be supplied in complete sets. 



Professor L. R. Hesler, formerly of the Department of Plant 

 Pathology of Cornell University, is now head of the Department 

 of Botany of the University of Tennessee, a position recently 

 made vacant by the death of Professor S. M. Bain. 



Mr. C. G. Lloyd, of Cincinnati, Ohio, spent the last week in 

 August and the first two weeks in September at the Garden 

 studying and photographing types of Xylaria and the larger 

 species of Hypoxylon in the Ellis Collection, which contains 

 numerous type specimens of North American Pyrenomycetes. 



Mr. H. B. Weiss, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, is making 

 a, study of the beetles and other insects that infest fungi, and 

 finds that the species that feed on woody fungi are usually dif- 

 ferent from those infesting mushrooms. He would be glad to 

 receive specimens when accompanied by the correct name of the 

 host. 



Dr. W. C. Coker was actively engaged during the past summer 

 in completing his investigation of the genus Clavaria. Besides 

 devoting considerable time to library and herbarium study at the 

 Garden and other institutions, he was able to spend several weeks 

 in collecting at various localities in the eastern United States, 

 from North Carolina to New England, where conditions were 

 suitable for the development of the coral-fungi. His series of 

 illustrations of this interesting group of fungi is excellent. 



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