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Mycologia 



"The Comparative Histology of Certain Californian Boleta- 

 ceae," by Dr. H. S. Yates, is a recent publication of decided merit 

 from the department of botany of the University of California. 

 There is opportunity for this harmonious blending of morphology 

 and taxonomy in most groups of fungi. 



The report of the Selby Smelter Commission recently issued as 

 Bulletin 98 of the Bureau of Mines at Washington contains valu- 

 able information regarding the effect of smelter gases on various 

 forms of vegetation, including fungi. The last twenty pages of 

 the report are devoted to a bibliography on the injurious effects of 

 sulfur dioxid. 



The list of unreported Michigan fungi for 1911-1914, by C. H. 

 Kauffman, covers about twenty pages in the seventeenth annual 

 report of the Michigan Academy of Science, half of which are 

 devoted to rusts. The example set and so patiently followed by 

 Dr. Kauffman is highly commendable and worthy of imitation by 

 mycologists in every state. 



The great quantity of Coprinus comatus which often springs 

 up in newly made streets and roads suggests that some method 

 might be devised for cultivating this attractive and well-flavored 

 edible species ; which could not be shipped nor exposed long in 

 the market, but would be valuable if grown in one's garden. 

 This is an experimental problem suitable for almost any careful 

 and patient student. 



A recent bulletin by John R. Johnston on the present status of 

 the cocoanut budrot disease states that the export of cocoanuts 

 from Baracoa, Cuba, in 1898 was 24,000,000 nuts and in 191 5 

 only 4,000,000. In Jamaica, a law was passed in 191 1 to prevent 

 the spread of infectious diseases, with the result that the budrot 

 disease has caused little damage there since. The disease has not 

 yet reached Florida, the Bahamas, Porto Rico, Panama or Mexico. 



Dr. S. M. Stocker, of Duluth, Minnesota, recently sent in speci- 

 mens of Lentinus strigosus, which in the fresh state had an odor 



