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Mycologia 



The Imperial Bureau of Mycology has undertaken the publica- 

 tion of a monthly abstracting journal, the Review of Applied 

 Mycology, for the purpose of supplying, month by month, a sum- 

 mary of the work published in all countries on the diseases of 

 plants and various other aspects of economic mycology. The first 

 number was issued in January, 1922, and a volume of between 

 four and five hundred pages annually is expected. All communi- 

 cations respecting the publication should be sent to the Editor, 

 Imperial Bureau of Mycology, Kew, Surrey. 



In a recent article by Professor Bruce Fink under the heading 

 of "An Addition to the Distribution of a Rare Fungus" (Myco- 

 logia, Vol. XIV, p. 49) it is noted that a collection of Tylo stoma 

 verrucosum made at Oxford, Ohio, in 192 1 seemed to be a fourth 

 locality for this fungus. Some twenty of these fine plants were 

 found growing gregariously on very rich leaf-mold on the Indiana 

 University campus, Monroe County, Indiana, October 2, 191 1. 

 This was published in the Indiana Academy of Science, 191 1, p. 

 351.—/. M. Van Hook. 



The spores of Schizophyllum commune are shown by J. F. 

 Adams in Torreya for November-December, 1921, to be slightly 

 pinkish in mass, and the suggestion is made that it belongs, there- 

 fore, in the Rhodosporae rather than in the Leucosporae. Several 

 species belonging to Pleurotus, a white-spored genus, also have 

 rosy-tinted spores. Nature does not always draw her lines as 

 definitely as man would like. Mr. Adams's suggestion that Schizo- 

 phyllum might be used by students for spore prints during the 

 winter is an excellent one. 



The Report of the New York State Botanist for 1919, distrib- 

 uted in February, 1922, contains a list of about 20 fungi new to 

 the state; a description of the new species Microdiplodia populi 

 Dearness from Colorado ; an index to the New York species of 

 Mycosphaerella, 47 in number ; an article on new or noteworthy 

 species of fungi, by Dearness and House ; and studies in the genus 

 Inocybe, by Kauffman, briefly noticed in the March number of 



