NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 



Professor W. C. Coker, of the University of North Carolina, 

 continued his studies of the Clavariaceae in the herbarium of the 

 Garden during August. 



Mr. L. O. Overholts, of State College, Pennsylvania, was 

 given a research scholarship for August 15 to September 15, to 

 complete his study of the genus Pholiota for North American 

 Flora. 



Mr. Percy Wilson recently collected a specimen of Tyromyces 

 Spraguei on the base of a living larch tree growing in the grounds 

 of the New York Botanical Garden. This fungus occurs abund- 

 antly on chestnut and oak throughout the northeastern United 

 States, but has never before been reported on a conifer. Mr. 

 Weir found Grifola Berkeleyi, an oak-loving species, attacking 

 the roots of larch in Idaho. Possibly the larch is more decidu- 

 ous than has been supposed ! 



M. Paul Hariot, author of various works on fungi and algae, 

 and for many years in charge of the cryptogamic collections at 

 the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris, died on July 5, from 

 diabetic complications. The broad-minded liberality and tireless 

 patience with which M. Hariot always placed the treasures of his 

 department of the museum at the service of the scientific men of 

 the world will long be held in grateful remembrance by American 

 botanists. 



In a recent number of the Botanical Gazette, Harry M. Fitz- 

 patrick discussed the development of the ascocarp of Rhizina un- 

 dulata. The Helvellaceae have formerly been separated from 

 the other orders of the discomycetes by the fact that the fruit 

 body is open from the first. The erroneousness of this distinc- 

 tion has been abundantly established by various workers. The 



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