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Mycologia 



Several leaf-spot diseases of economic plants in Porto Rico 

 were described by L. E. Miles in the October number of Phyto- 

 pathology. 



Chrysomyxa Weirii on Picea Englemanii, and Melampsora 

 occidentalis on species of poplar were described as new by H. S. 

 Jackson in the October number of Phytopathology. 



A brief and interesting review of an article by Naumov on 

 " Intoxicating Bread " appeared in the October number of Phyto- 

 pathology, under the authorship of Michael Shapovalov. 



A specimen of Sebacina spongiosa, described as new by C. G. 

 Lloyd, has been recently collected at Nassau, New Providence, 

 Bahamas, by L. K. Brace and forwarded by him to Dr. Britton 

 for the Garden herbarium. 



S. W. Newell reports in the West Indian Bulletin that several 

 species of Rosellinia cause root diseases in Guadeloupe, Dominica, 

 Martinique, Grenada, and adjacent islands, the plants mostly 

 attacked being cacao, coffee, limes, and arrowroot. 



The development of some species of Pholiota is discussed by 

 W. H. Sawyer, Jr., in the September number of The Botanical 

 Gazette. Three species were used in Mr. Sawyer's experiments, 

 Pholiota adiposa, P. squarrosa, and P. flammans. The paper is 

 illustrated with six plates containing fifty-five figures. 



A very important and timely treatise on the control of diseases 

 and insect enemies of the home vegetable garden, by W. A. Orton 

 and F. H. Chittenden, has recently appeared as Farmer's Bul- 

 letin 856 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. This bulletin 

 consists of 72 pages and 82 figures and contains descriptions and 

 methods of control of all the ordinary diseases and insect pests 

 met with in the vegetable garden. 



