NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 



[Unsigned notes are by the editor'] 



Dr. W. A. Murrill lectured on "Edible Wild Mushrooms" 

 before the International Garden Club on the afternoon of Thurs- 

 day, November 3. 



Dr. L. O. Overholts, of the Pennsylvania State College, spent 

 the latter half of December at the Garden, completing his study of 

 Pholiota, an important genus of the fleshy fungi, for early publica- 

 tion in North American Flora. 



Mrs. Alexander Taylor has presented to the Garden a number 

 of colored drawings of fleshy fungi which she made in New Jersey, 

 Massachusetts, and elsewhere. Dried specimens accompany the 

 drawings. 



Fungi detrimental to drugs — chiefly mildews, smuts, and rusts — 

 are treated by Emil Herrmann in Pharm. Zentralh. 61 : 95-100. 

 1920. 



Red or purple rice owes its color to a mold, Monascus pur- 

 pureus. See an article on the manufacture of Chinese Ang Khak 

 in the United States by Margaret Church in Jour. Indus. Eng. 

 Chem. 12 : 45, 46. 1920. • 



A mosaic disease of Chinese cabbage, mustard, and turnip, 

 which may be transmitted by aphids or by direct transfer of juice, 

 was described and handsomely figured by E. S. Schultz in the 

 Journal of Agricultural Research for October 15, 1921. 



The stipitate polypores of Brazil have been described, figured, 

 and keyed by C. Torrend in Broteria (Ser, Bot. 18: 121-143. pi. 

 5-8. 1920). In the genus Amauroderma alone 34 species are 



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