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Orient on 141 different plants. In case of scattered infections, 

 removal of diseased wood is said to be effective ; but where the 

 fungus has become established it is necessary to treat with tar. 



The Commission of Plant Sanitation of Cuba has recently pub- 

 lished its first bulletin, giving an account of its organization and 

 work. This bulletin contains a list of plant diseases in Cuba ; the 

 budrot of the cocoanut and its control ; and the banana disease 

 and its control. Professor J. R. Johnston, who is president of 

 the Commission and pathologist of the experiment station, has 

 contributed most of the material for this bulletin. 



A specimen of Cyclop orus Greenei (Berk.) Murrill has re- 

 cently been given to the Garden by Miss Eleanor Hodges, who 

 collected it several years ago under rhododendrons at Pocono 

 Manor, Pennsylvania. Miss Hodges knew that it was a rare 

 fungus and was surprised to find it four or five times in different 

 places in the vicinity of Pocono Manor. This interesting species 

 is represented in the Garden herbarium by sporadic collections 

 from New England to the mountains of North Carolina and west 

 to Iowa, but Miss Hodges' collection is the first we have received 

 from the state of Pennsylvania. 



Since the completion of Volume 9 of North American Flora, 

 many requests have come in for parts 1 and 2, dealing with the 

 polypores, which were exhausted in separate several years ago. 

 In order to supply the lack of these parts, Dr. Murrill published 

 his series of books, entitled " Northern Polypores," " Southern 

 Polypores," " Western Polypores," " Tropical Polypores," and 

 " American Boletes." He is now preparing a small pamphlet 

 containing the equivalents of his names in Saccardo's nomencla- 

 ture, so that those using Saccardo's work may not be confused 

 by the changes he has made. The pamphlet will appear in Feb- 

 ruary, and may be obtained direct from the author for twenty 

 cents by any reader of Mycologia. 



A list of the Hymenomycetes of Rochester (New York) and 

 vicinity, by Dr. Fred S. Boughton, has recently appeared in the 



