NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 



Dr. J. F. Brenckle, of Kulm, North Dakota, an enthusiastic 

 collector and frequent contributor to Mycologia has entered the 

 United States service and at the present writing is located at the 

 War Prison Hospital, Fort Douglas, Utah. 



A long list of fungi collected on Long Island and Gardiner's 

 Island appeared in Torrcya for July, 191 7, contributed by Stewart 

 H. Burnham and Roy A. Latham. 



Professor George F. Atkinson, of Cornell University, attended 

 the Torrey Club Anniversary and remained at the Garden for 

 some weeks consulting the mycological herbarium with special 

 reference to the large numbers of types of gill-fungi which it 

 contains. 



An excellent edible mushroom, Boletus luteus, with tubes in- 

 stead of gills, has become established under the young pine trees 

 east and north of Conservatory Range 1. This was noticed last 

 year, but the spawn has spread very considerably since that time. 



In a pamphlet published in 1916 by the Indian Tea Association, 

 A. C. Tunstall describes and gives treatment for root diseases of 

 the tea plant caused jpy Diplodia, Rosellinia, Hymenochaete noxia, 

 Fomes lucidus, Ustulina sonata, and Thyridaria tarda. 



A needle blight of Douglas fir is described by J. R. Weir in the 

 Journal of Agricultural Research for July. The disease has been 

 found throughout the Northwest. The identity of the fungus has 

 not been determined, but it apparently belongs to the Stiotidaceae. 



Black rootrot, a destructive disease to apple trees in Virginia, 

 has been attributed by F. D. Fromme and H. E. Thomas largely 

 to the work of the fungus Xylaria Hypoxylon. There is also 



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