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Mycologia 



addition to gaining a high reputation as a teacher, he has occu- 

 pied a field of wide service in Vermont in developing the work 

 of the Vermont Botanical Club and the state forestry department, 

 in securing for the University the Pringle Herbarium with Dr. 

 Pringle as curator, and recently in organizing a new department 

 of teaching. As a public-spirited citizen and as an instructor, 

 he holds a secure position in the esteem and affection of the 

 students and the people of the state. Professor Jones will remain 

 in Burlington until January, and enter on the work of his new 

 appointment at the beginning of the second semester. 



In the Botanical Gazette for October, 1909, G. F. Atkinson 

 describes and copiously illustrates a remarkable species of Ama- 

 nita from California, collected and photographed by Mrs. V. G. 

 Ballen. The name assigned, A. calyptroderma, refers to the fact 

 that the calyptra of the volva fits like a skin over the center 

 of the pileus. 



A very helpful guide to Saccardo's " Sylloge Fungorum " has 

 recently appeared under the title Genera of Fungi," by Dr. 

 F. E. Clements, published by the H. W. Wilson Co., Minneapolis, 

 Minnesota. This work includes keys to the genera and larger 

 groups found in Saccardo's work and also covers Rehm's " Dis- 

 comyceten " and the lichens of Engler and Prantl's " Pflanzen- 

 familien." 



A number of woody fungi collected by Professor S. Kusano 

 in Formosa were recently sent in for determination and have 

 been added to the Garden herbarium. The collection contains 

 few novelties, most of the species having been received before, 

 either from the Philippines or from Japan. 



A description list of the hymenomycetes found in the vicinity 

 of Chicago, by Dr. W. S. Moffatt, has recently been pubHshed as 

 Bulletin no. 7, part i, of the Natural History Survey of The 

 Chicago Academy of Sciences. The pamphlet contains 156 pages 



