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of fungi collected by him in Guadeloupe. Most of the fungi col- 

 lected by Duss have been worked over by Dr. N. Patouillard, 

 of Paris. 



Professor F. L. Stevens, of the North Carolina Experiment 

 Station, expects to visit the agricultural colleges and experiment 

 stations of Europe during the summer. 



Mr. J. R. Johnston, of the Bureau of Plant Industry at Wash- 

 ington, has recently been studying the bud-rot of the cocoanut 

 in Cuba. 



A paper by Freda M. Bachman on the Discomycetes in the 

 Vicinity of Oxford, Ohio, is published in the proceedings of the 

 Ohio State Academy of Science 5 : 19-70. 1909. The paper 

 contains a description of more than sixty species occurring in 

 that region, and is accompanied by four plates with sixty-two 

 figures. 



The Transactions of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science 12 : 

 165-205, 1909, contains a descriptive list of the Myxomycetes of 

 Pictou County, by C. L. Moore. Four plates, illustrating the 

 principal genera, accompany the text. 



Part two of the Xylariaceae of Southern Brasil, by F. Thiessen, 

 appeared in the April number of Annales Mycologici (7 : 141-167. 

 1909). The paper is devoted mainly to the genus Hypoxylon, 

 twenty-nine species and several varieties being listed, including 

 one new species, Hypoxylon verrucosum Thiess. The subject of 

 classification is discussed at some length. 



