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An article by M. Biers (Bull. Soc. Myc. de Fr. 24: 189-196. 

 pi. 11-14. 1908), on the cultivation of the ordinary mushroom 

 in underground galleries in Paris and other French cities, deals 

 with the subject in a popular way, the illustrations adding much 

 to the interest and value of the article. 



The standing committee on education of the Botanical Society 

 of America, in its fourth report on the college entrance course in 

 botany, recommends the following types for the study of fungi : 

 Bacteria, Rhizopus or Mucor, yeast, Puccinia (or powdery mil- 

 dew), corn smut, mushroom, Physcia (or Parmelia, or Usnea). 



The destruction of the stinkhorn, Phallus impudicus, in a small 

 grove where the odor of the mature sporophores became objec- 

 tionable, was successfully attempted in France by G. de 

 Coutouly, who briefly describes his method in a recent article 

 (Bull. Soc. Myc. de Fr. 24: 181, 182. 1908). At the first 

 appearance of a young sporophore, the soil was removed for a 

 foot or more about the spot where it appeared and the space 

 filled with quick-lime, which killed the mycelium. By following 

 up this treatment, the grove was entirely freed of the fungus in 

 question. Credit for the idea is given to a Bavarian forest 

 ranger, who used lime to exterminate as many as possible of the 

 poisonous species of Amanita. 



An important paper by F. S. Earle, on the Genera of the 

 North America Gill Fungi, appeared as an advance separate 

 from Bulletin No. 18 of the New York Botanical Garden in 

 January, 1909. It contains a list of generic names used in the 

 group, with their types, and a key to the tribes and genera, with 

 a technical description of each. Of the 147 genera included, 38 

 are proposed by the author as new, and many others are adopted 

 from previous authors under the law of priority. Cantharellus 

 is shown to be antedated by Alectorolophoides, Schisophyllum 

 by HyponevriSj Pleurotus by Crepidotus, Clitopilus by Orcella, 

 Panaeolus by Campanularius, Tricholoma by Monomyces, 

 Anellaria by Panaeolus, Armillaria by Spaerocephalus, Volvaria 

 by Pseud of arinaceus, and Amanitopsis by Vaginata. 



