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Mycologia 



Professor John Dearness, of London, Canada, has been study- 

 ing fresh specimens of Clitopilus irregularis Peck, a species de- 

 scribed from his locality, and finds nothing to distinguish it from 

 Lepista tarda (Peck) Murrill. 



Professor H. L. Wells, of Yale University, collected a speci- 

 men of Morchella crassipes at New Haven in June which was 

 about a foot high with a stipe as large as a man's arm. It was 

 preserved in formalin and deposited at the Connecticut Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station. 



The February number of The Botanical Magazine, published 

 at Tokio, Japan, contains an article by Professor A. Yasuda on 

 the Thelephoraceae, Hydnaceae, and Polyporaceae of Japan. 

 Each number of this magazine has notes on fungi contributed 

 by Professor Yasuda. 



N. A. Naumov has made an extensive study of " intoxicating 

 bread " and states that this disease of cereals is due to Fusarium 

 roseum and F. subulatum. The mycelium will retain its vitality 

 in infected grain stored under ordinary conditions for about 

 three years, but is killed in a day by dry heat at 6o° C. 



A. A. Jaczewski describes about thirty fungous and bacterial 

 diseases affecting the clover plant in Russia, two of them, Fusa- 

 rium Trifolii and Oedocephalum anthophilum, being new. The 

 latter causes a mold of the blossoms such as is seen in some 

 roses, especially in the " Soleil d'Or." 



The Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Sciences for 1914 

 contains an article by C. E. O'Neal on some species of Num- 

 mularia common in Indiana ; and one by G. B. Ramsey on the 

 species of Rosellinia in Indiana, with a brief account of the 8 

 species of this genus said to be parasitic. 



