NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 



[Unsigned notes are by the editor] 



Dr. A. H. W. Povah, recently connected with the Alabama 

 Polytechnic Institute, has been appointed assistant professor of 

 botany at Northwestern University. 



Dr. Arthur S. Rhoads, formerly Assistant in Forest Pathology 

 of the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry, and more recently of the 

 Office of Cereal Investigations and the Office of Fruit Disease 

 Investigations of the same bureau, has resigned to accept the posi- 

 tion of pathologist at the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station 

 at Mountain Grove, Missouri. 



A list of smuts and rusts prepared by Mrs. Flora W. Patterson 

 and her assistants has been issued as Department Circular 195 of 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Septocladia dichotoma, a new genus and species of water-molds, 

 was described and figured by Coker and Grant in the Journal of 

 the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society for March, 1922. 



Two fine specimens of Clavaria sub cae spit osa Peck, representing 

 different stages of the plant, have been sent to the mycological 

 herbarium by Miss Ann Hibbard, who collected them at Ellis, 

 Massachusetts, the type locality, on August 23, 192 1. In a letter 

 accompanying the plants Miss Hibbard remarks: "The spores in 

 these specimens are rough, but Dr. Burt, to whom I have also sent 

 specimens, writes me that spores of the type specimen at Albany 

 are rough, although Mr. Peck made no mention of that fact in his 

 published description of the species." 



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