NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 



Professor L. H. Pennington, of Syracuse University, visited 

 the Garden on April 9 to consult the library and mycological 

 herbarium. 



Forsythia viridissima is subject to a disease of the flower stalks 

 which, according to Peglion, is probably due to Sclerotinia 

 libertiana. 



A new disease of bamboo found by Turconi on the branches of 

 Bambusa mitis in the botanical garden at Pavia is said to be due 

 to Melanconium Bambusae sp. nov. 



We are requested by Mr. E. Bartholomew to announce that the 

 publication of " Fungi Columbiani " has been discontinued with 

 the distribution of Century 51. 



Professor H. S. Jackson, of Purdue University, Lafayette, 

 Indiana, spent the week of April 16-21 at the Garden working 

 on plant rusts in preparation of manuscript for a forthcoming 

 part of North American Flora. 



Professor Frederick E. Clements has resigned the chair of 

 botany at the University of Minnesota to accept a position with 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Mr. Ray Nelson, formerly assitant in the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College Experiment Station, has been appointed plant 

 pathologist for the Illinois Central Railroad. 



Mr. W. P. Fraser, plant pathologist of Macdonald College, 

 has been appointed to investigate the problem of grain rust on 

 the prairie provinces of Western Canada. 



Professor C. H. Kauffman, of the University of Michigan, 

 Ann Arbor, Michigan, spent several days at the Garden about the 



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